Episode 42, The Nature or Attributes of God (Part II - Omniscience)

The Panpsycast Philosophy Podcast

Jack Symes | Andrew Horton, Oliver Marley, and Rose de Castellane

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4.8 • 604 Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2018

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In the Summa Theologica, shortly after arguing for the existence of God, Saint Thomas Aquinas writes the following: “Having recognised that a certain thing exists, we have still to investigate the way in which it exists, that we may come to understand what it is that exists.” This seems like a peculiar thing to state. I know that there exists something, but I have no idea as to what this thing is. As Brian Davies points out in his book Philosophy of Religion: A Guide and Anthology, this not such an odd statement after all. Suppose I attempt to open a door, and something stops it from opening. I might say, ‘well something is certainly in the way’. If it makes sense to make this statement, it also makes sense to ask, 'what is it'?

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0:00.0	Part 2. Omniscience, free will and time. If you're Omniscient, then you know that Studio headphones are the best headphones on the
0:22.1	market. The company Studio is a revolutionary headphone designer and creator, a little bit like
0:29.8	our god, lord and savior. The headphones market can offer you one of the two things, the style
0:34.8	or the tech, but the fashionable headphones at Studio bring these two things
0:39.5	together with excellent sound quality and high-tech vibrations, but not a bulky and not design
0:45.6	orientated. That doesn't make sense. Don't worry about that. They're fantastic. While emphasizing
0:52.8	our modern Scandinavian design, they also provide a product that matches the quality of even the highest rated headphones on the market for a fraction of the cost.
1:02.6	Ollie, you've been enjoying studio headphones in between part one and two, haven't you? You took a little jog there in the park. How did you find the experience?
1:09.8	Fantastic. Very comfortable. I can't praise these headphones enough really. Truly, truly fantastic. And I think that anybody would be pleased with a perfectly good pair of headphones. Fantastic. And they got like this cool band between them so they don't fall off your head. So that's great too. Yeah, you look cool in them as well. Wow. Thanks. Nice. I was going to say actually that is one of the problems with the Apple headphones that you put in
1:10.9	Whoa, whoa, that is one of the problems with the Apple headphones that you put in.
1:30.9	Whoa, whoa, whoa.
1:32.7	We can't say it with standard headphones.
1:35.6	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:36.9	We love you, Apple.
1:38.2	Keep publishing our podcast, please.
1:40.9	Oh, yeah.
1:42.8	Never mind.
1:45.5	But on a serious note, That is one of the problems
1:46.4	They fall out
1:47.2	They do
1:47.6	Apple headphones
1:48.6	Studio for the future
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