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Pints With Aquinas

Matt Speaks to His 6th Favorite Person in the World, Dr. Peter Kreeft

Pints With Aquinas

Matt Fradd

Stthomasaquinas, Saintthomasaquinas, Mattfradd, Theology, Catholic, Dominican, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy

4.86.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2024

⏱️ 176 minutes

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Summary

Peter Kreeft, Ph.D., is a professor of philosophy at Boston College. He has written over 100 Books. He is a convert to Catholicism from Calvinism. He is an extremely sought after speaker. He joins Matt to talk about a wide range of topics.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

And we live. Are we live? We are. Are you sure? I mean this brings up day card. I think therefore I am.

0:10.0

He is a question. Why doesn't he say I think I think, therefore I think I am, I think.

0:15.0

Oh, I gotta think about that.

0:17.0

I gotta think about that.

0:18.0

Here's a question for you.

0:20.0

How can we be sure that our memories are in any way reliable?

0:25.0

His memories are a strange thing.

0:27.0

In the same way that we can be sure that the world is real and not a hypnotic dream but from the devil. There's no formal proof. It's not

0:38.6

logically inconsistent to say we're really a brain in a vat dreaming in a world.

0:44.0

But we all know by common sense that that's insane.

0:48.0

Well that's funny you say that because as soon as you say we all know,

0:51.0

apparently we don't all know.

0:52.0

Well maybe we pretend not to know.

0:54.0

All non philosophers know. Yes, there you go. You need a PhD. Yes.

0:58.0

These are really interesting questions I think because I think sometimes Christians are afraid

1:05.3

They don't have the level of certitude they think they ought to have about the existence of God and they were therefore they feel bad about that

1:12.4

They haven't read a coin of sin of God and therefore they feel bad about that.

1:13.0

They haven't read a coin of sin.

1:15.0

Well, real quick, if you read Hume or Kant or others,

1:19.0

you start to realize or you might start to doubt yourself, right?

1:24.9

You find out that there are very many extremely intelligent people,

1:28.9

much smarter than you, who lack common sense.

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