Posted on June 20, 2009 by Michael Liccione
At ST Ia Q2 A3, where Aquinas offers his well-known “five ways” of proving God’s existence, he notes and replies to two objections. To paraphrase, the first is that “infinite goodness” is incompatible with the existence of “evil”; the second, that citing God is “superfluous” as an explanation for the world’s existence. It’s pretty evident [...]
Filed under: apologetics, epistemology, natural theology, philosophy of religion | Tagged: Aquinas, atheism, causation, explanation, God, naturalism, philosophy, religion, science | 8 Comments »
Posted on June 20, 2009 by elliotbee
The following are excerpts from my latest post at FCA. Go there to see the unusually lengthy combox thread:
Is there any law that dictates what the most basic laws of physics are? Are the laws of the universe self-ratifying, or are they in need of some grounding principle to account for their exact correlations?
If [...]
Filed under: apologetics, metaphysics, natural theology, philosophy of science | Tagged: creation, Gödel, Jaki, naturalism | Leave a Comment »
Posted on June 18, 2009 by elliotbee
Seeing as things have been pretty slow here at PhilPer, and seeing as some readers still hope to hear an achey-breaky “But I’m not dead yet!” I decided to kick up some dust here… sort of… by linking to several posts at my own blog, FideCogitActio (which all this time has been unobtrusively linked in [...]
Filed under: ethics, philosophy of religion | Tagged: anthropology, Burkert | 1 Comment »
Posted on June 18, 2009 by elliotbee
http://veniaminov.blogspot.com/2009/06/your-mouth-bone-is-connected-to-your.html
Filed under: apologetics, catechesis, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science | Tagged: Chesterton, hylomorphism, intellect, logic, mind, Sheen, soul | Leave a Comment »
Posted on June 18, 2009 by elliotbee
http://veniaminov.blogspot.com/2009/06/all-good-things.html
Filed under: natural theology, spirituality | Tagged: finality, logic, perfection | Leave a Comment »
Posted on June 18, 2009 by elliotbee
http://veniaminov.blogspot.com/2009/06/tomato-to-snuff-cigarette.html
Filed under: apologetics, catechesis, philosophy of science, spirituality | Tagged: meaning, purpose, teleology | Leave a Comment »
Posted on June 18, 2009 by elliotbee
http://veniaminov.blogspot.com/2009/06/were-all-in-this-together-asunder.html
Filed under: catechesis, culture, dogma, ethics, political philosophy | Tagged: original sin, society | Leave a Comment »
Posted on June 18, 2009 by elliotbee
http://veniaminov.blogspot.com/2009/06/begin-with-turnip.html
Filed under: apologetics, natural theology | Tagged: atheism, Chesterton, Machuga, meaning | Leave a Comment »
Posted on June 18, 2009 by elliotbee
http://veniaminov.blogspot.com/2009/06/and-your-punt-exactly.html
Filed under: humor, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science | Tagged: evolution, hylomorphism, meaning, puns | Leave a Comment »
Posted on June 18, 2009 by elliotbee
http://veniaminov.blogspot.com/2009/06/do-freudians-know-that-i-dont-dream-of.html
Filed under: philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, spirituality | Tagged: dreams, Freud | Leave a Comment »
Posted on June 18, 2009 by elliotbee
The Mystery of Unfunny Great Actors
http://veniaminov.blogspot.com/2009/06/funny-cuz-its-true.html
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Posted on June 18, 2009 by elliotbee
More dust-upkicking via FCA…
Bones of convention…
http://veniaminov.blogspot.com/2009/06/bones-of-convention.html
Filed under: philosophy of religion, spirituality | Tagged: bones | Leave a Comment »
