Episode 42, The Nature or Attributes of God (Part III - Omnibenevolence)

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

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🗓️ 22 July 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

For religious believers, considering the questions that surround the nature or attributes of God, is important in their attempt to form a coherent understanding of their creator.

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 3 Omni Benevolence
0:16.2	What is love?
0:18.1	Baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more. What is love? Baby don't hurt me. Don't hurt me. No more. What is love and is God all loving?
0:27.7	Before we get into that, a new show has begun again in the United Kingdom, which goes by the title of Love Island.
0:35.6	Andrew, I think this is a nice way in about thinking about love and different kinds of love.
0:41.2	And it's an example of, it's on ITV for a start, isn't it?
0:44.4	This show called Love Island.
0:45.4	Do you want to break it down for us?
0:47.1	ITV2, Jack.
0:50.3	So, right, okay, yeah.
0:52.0	So imagine if you were in a villa on your own just out on an island yeah could
0:59.1	you find true love probably love with another person i'm just saying well let's before we even
1:06.9	define anything else we're just saying could you could you find true love in a villa on your own?
1:13.1	You're asking you a philosophy, in a boethia sense, I'll fall in love with lady philosophy.
1:18.9	Oh, God.
1:20.6	I would say no.
1:22.1	Yeah.
1:22.4	The answer is no, you can't because there's no one else there, Jack.
1:25.8	Good.
1:27.1	Right.
1:27.7	So the producers of Love Island recognized this quandary.
1:32.0	And they...
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