Episode 9, The Cosmological Argument (Part II)

The Panpsycast Philosophy Podcast

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

Education, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Courses

4.8 • 612 Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2017

⏱️ 34 minutes

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You best get prime moving! Moving house? Visiting a hotel? Returning a book to the library? This is the podcast for you! Tweet us your thoughts www.twitter.com/thepanpsycast. Part I. St. Thomas Aquinas 5:10, Part II. Leibniz 34:50, Part III. Criticisms of the Cosmological Argument 00:05 (in Part II), Part IV. Further Discussion and Analysis 11:34 (in Part II). You can find links to all the reading at www.thepanpsychist.com/panpsycast. Make sure you've subscribed to us on iTunes to get new episodes as and when they're released! Thank you, we hope you enjoy the episode!

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0:00.0	Pan, pan, pan, pan, pan, pan, pan, pan, pan, pan, pan, pan, pan, pan, pan, pan,
0:07.0	Psythas!
0:12.0	Part three, criticisms.
0:16.0	Our key inquiry question, did everyone approve of the cosmological argument?
0:23.1	So let's start with a quote from Bertrand Russell.
0:25.5	The universe is just there,
0:27.6	and that's all there is to say.
0:31.4	And he never wrote anything again.
0:33.9	That was from his book, Why I am not a Christian.
0:37.2	So he's saying the universe is a brute fan.
0:40.5	If you actually look at that book, it's just that's it.
0:43.9	The rest of it is just like 100 pages of blank.
0:45.5	Best 20 pounds out of this family.
0:47.0	God damn.
0:51.7	Okay, yeah, so obviously not everyone is a massive fan of the cosmological argument.
0:55.2	I guess if we're going to look at a criticism, Bertrand Russell was a good man to start with.
0:59.9	Not very fond of Christianity for Stop, let alone the cosmological argument.
1:06.2	He actually had quite a famous radio interview with another philosopher called Frederick Coppulston.
1:11.4	Copleston was a Jesuit priest and philosopher who wrote lots of work on the cosmological argument.
1:18.4	And obviously, Bertrand Russell, if you're unaware, he wrote the history of Western philosophy and was quite strongly anti-Christianity.
1:21.6	He didn't like, he didn't approve of the existence of God, didn't like the arguments.
1:24.8	Now, this radio interview was done in about 1948.
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