HoP 252 - Neverending Story - the Eternity of the World

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

Peter Adamson

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Society & Culture:philosophy

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🗓️ 24 April 2016

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Aquinas, Bonaventure, and the so-called “Latin Averroists” take up the question of whether the universe has always existed, and settle once and for all which comes first, the chicken or the egg.

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0:00.0	Fennie pray a cost in the news
0:05.0	and there's to all of physical
0:08.0	and bless you all of physical.
0:10.0	He bless you, Hi, I'm Peter Adamson, and you're listening to the History of Philosophy Podcast, brought to you with the support of the Philosophy Department at King
0:24.6	Scholars London and the LMLMU in Munich. Online at www.
0:29.2	History of Philosophy. Net.
0:31.8	Today's episode, Never Ending Story, the Eternity of the World.
0:39.0	We saw in an earlier episode that medieval universities had a lot in common with today's universities.
0:45.0	No wonder then that philosophers of the Middle Ages also had a lot in common with today's philosophers,
0:50.0	a penchant for university intrigue, occasional despair over the behavior of their students,
0:55.9	and an obsessive interest in particular philosophical issues.
0:59.8	In some cases those issues are the same.
1:02.4	Philosophy of mind, free will, logic.
1:05.3	In others, the abiding concerns of the medievals have fallen out of fashion.
1:10.4	One of those is the eternity of the universe.
1:13.0	Emmanuel Kant still took this problem seriously enough to discuss it in his critique of pure reason,
1:19.0	which poses an antinomie of pure reason concerning the infinity of time and space.
1:25.0	Nowadays, the advance of modern science has taken it pretty firmly off the agenda.
1:31.0	How different things were in the 13th century when it seems that every significant thinker felt obligated to address the issue.
1:38.0	But isn't this rather strange?
1:41.0	After all, these philosophers were confident that they knew the right answer to the question of whether the universal is eternal.
1:47.0	No, it isn't, because it was created with a beginning in time by God.
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