Does God Exist | Professor Michael Gorman

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🗓️ 9 November 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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This lecture was given on September 11, 2023, at the University of Maryland For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Michael Gorman is a professor of philosophy at The Catholic University of America. He has doctorates in philosophy and theology. He has authored over thirty-five academic papers and a book entitled Aquinas on the Metaphysics of the Hypostatic Union (Cambridge University Press, 2017). His main interests are metaphysics, human nature, and ethics. He is working on a textbook in metaphysics and on a short book on human nature and human dignity.

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0:28.7	Well, thank you for waiting, sticking around,
0:32.4	despite the rooms grew up.
0:34.5	And also just thank you guys for rescheduling the thing I was sick
0:38.9	last week. And so you're very patient. Okay. So this talk is called, Does God Exist? I hope you
0:51.2	won't be disappointed. If I say that that's a question that can't be settled adequately in a short talk, I won't even try, really.
1:00.1	What I'll do instead is less ambitious, but I hope helpful nonetheless.
1:05.1	I'll explore the possibilities and limits for using philosophy to learn about God's existence.
1:11.6	Now, since this is organized by the Thomistic Institute, yeah, I'm going to be presenting things in a way that does jive with St. Thomas's approach.
1:23.6	But I won't be doing that because I was invited by the Thomistic Institute. I'll do it because
1:31.3	I think it makes good sense. So here's the order that I will be presenting things in. First, I'll give
1:38.3	a brief sense of what philosophy, this is the order on the board, okay? First, I'll give a brief sense of what philosophy is in the first place.
1:46.4	Second, I'll give brief discussions of reasons for believing in God other than as a result
1:53.5	of philosophical argumentation.
1:56.7	Third, I'll discuss the idea of believing in God on the basis of philosophical argumentation.
2:04.0	Fourth, I'll consider the following question.
2:07.1	If we have used philosophy to provide philosophical reasons for believing in God, what comes next, philosophically speaking?
2:22.3	Fifth, I'll look briefly at objections to God's existence. Sixth, I'll point out the limitations of philosophy when it comes to God.
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