You're listening to the partially examined life, a podcast by some guys who at one point set on doing philosophy for a living, but then thought better of it.

Our question for episode 378 is something like, how does humanity fit into the universe?

We read selections, mostly

from Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologica, written around 1268. As presented in Oxford's

Thomas Aquinas selected philosophical writings compiled by Timothy McDermott in 1993. For more

information about the text in the podcast, please see Partially Examined

Life.com. This is Mark Linsett Meyer, just a fool's saying stuff in my heart in Madison,

Wisconsin. This is Seth Paskin, compelled by reasons violence in Austin, Texas.

This is Wes Awen, trying to make my nouns adequate to God in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

This is Dylan Casey being transformed by love rather than merely assimilated by knowledge in Madison, Wisconsin.

So this is one of the most influential, important philosophers ever in your top 20 overall philosophers.

And yet many years it took us to. We've done some of this before. In fact,

I thought maybe we had done arguments for the existence of God episode, and I thought maybe

we would exclude that from here, but instead we're leading off with that. I think we did like

two pages of him before, and at least we're getting the context now. This is a very interesting presentation,

right? That some of it is from the suma, some of it is from things he wrote before it, some of

it's after it. But every single of these little chapters has a uniform presentation as here

is a question or maybe a question with some sub-questions and then based often on like,

well, Aristotle says this or Boethia says that, but this other authority says something different.

How do we reconcile these and using his old brain to figure it out?

So this time we're going to do some metaphysics stuff.

We're going to do arguments with the existence of God.

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