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Part 2, further analyses and discussion.

Welcome back.

Ollie, you've been doing your homework.

Can you remind us what we're talking about?

So we're talking about pantheism, and we're talking about the awesome argument for pantheism.

So we've got a couple of premises, So this idea that awe is a feeling,

it's an emotion that is potentially universal that we all hold, and that this emotion arises

and can, well, is arisen the most by the cosmos. So the cosmos elicits more awe in us than anything

else. This argument could argue that this awe is kind of a divine feeling.

It comes from pantheism, which is the idea that the universe is God and God is the universe.

So then I guess the question then that we kind of want to ask is, or that I want to kind of focus on here, Ryan, is like,

so this idea of pantheism, we haven't really, really mentioned too much yet, but what does it kind of mean with the idea the universe is God?

What does that actually mean?

The way that I think of pantheism in the paper is a thesis that the universe is divine or spiritually ultimate or transcendent.

It's the most divine or most spiritually ultimate or transcendent, it's the most divine or most spiritually ultimate or

transcendent thing that there is, then my aim with the argument is to give a defense of that

conclusion. It might help to think about the argument in this way. One of the really neat

things you might think about the argument is that it really

provides a different way of thinking about the nature of God from ways that we might be more

familiar with. So, for example, it's been common for philosophers of religion to think of God

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