Episode 42, The Nature or Attributes of God (Part IV - Further Analysis and Discussion)
The Panpsycast Philosophy Podcast
Jack Symes | Andrew Horton, Oliver Marley, and Rose de Castellane
4.8 • 604 Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2018
⏱️ 45 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 four, further analyses and discussion. Right, everybody's favorite part of the show where we can just free roam, we can enjoy it, we got through the content, what a heavy amount of content we've had to get through there. Ollie, did you enjoy the experience of the episode? I think this has been one of the hardest episodes to do just in terms of the content and, you know, the subject is quite dry unless you're kind of really really invested and find this stuff as |
| 0:37.6 | your your your fascination with the philosophy of religion it can come across as very |
| 0:41.9 | you know like we said at the start that the semantics of you know these these different beliefs |
| 0:47.1 | I think it is good you know to to make sure that you know as a philosopher of religion you |
| 0:52.2 | go back and just check up on this stuff. |
| 0:54.5 | And I think that actually, even though it's the last episode we've done, |
| 0:57.1 | that a lot of the work we've done in this one is a really good foundation, |
| 1:00.1 | supports a lot of the other stuff in the spec for the other subjects. |
| 1:05.3 | Whether I enjoyed it or not, it's not as important. |
| 1:08.5 | Can I just say that I very much enjoyed this topic? |
| 1:11.2 | It really repelled the sweat of both the gym and the philosophy seminar room. |
| 1:14.9 | A bit like studio headphones. |
| 1:18.5 | In between part three and part four, Phoebe went outside and tried the studio tray headphones |
| 1:23.7 | on that's the newest headphone that they've released. |
| 1:27.0 | It has a nine hour battery life, ten days of standby and they haven't compromised the style and the audio quality. Would you concur, Miss Light? Yeah, outside actually, it's quite a busy road, so I was very surprised by the, what's it called? Noise cancelling. Noise cancellation on them. It's actually very good. Well, you'll be pleased to hear, quote from studio headphones, |
| 1:45.7 | you'll never be caught off guard while wearing them, |
| 1:47.8 | as they provide sound transparency, |
| 1:49.6 | letting you listen to music and be aware of trafficking conversations, didn't it? |
| 1:53.1 | Never mind. |
| 1:55.6 | But it's not a lot. |
| 1:57.4 | God can allow logical, |
| 2:00.4 | I can't even speak |
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