How do Buddhism, Chinese traditions, and Hinduism address the perennial problems of suffering, ethics, ritual, and contemplative practices? Why is suffering so important in...
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Humans have a sense of right and wrong. Does this mean that morality is absolute? And if absolute, would God be needed to make it so? Even theologians are perplexed by God...
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Episode 02
Season 02
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Is God, if there is a God, the ‘God of History’? Does God make specific interventions in the course of human events to ensure that God’s purpose be...
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If God exists and if God is all-knowing, all-powerful and all-good, why horrendous evil? If it is good to know God, why is God hidden? Skeptical theism is the claim that we...
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Metaphysics is the deepest probe of reality. It is the branch of philosophy that discerns the most general features of the world. When focused on God, metaphysics seeks...
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We’ve heard the raucous noise about God, God’s existence and nature. Better are cogent arguments, con and pro. Not that the existence or nature of God is up for...
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Can Philosophy of Religion Find God? Does God exist? What are God’s attributes and traits? How should we examine such questions about God? Can philosophy provide...
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The burden must be on the theist to explain monstrous evils. How could God be a personal God, who cares about every human being, indeed every creature, and yet who allows...
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How do Buddhism, Chinese traditions, and Hinduism address the essence of human sentience? What is consciousness? What is the self? What is qi? Do humans have souls or...
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What does it mean for God to be “perfect”? Perfectly knowledgeable? Perfectly powerful? Perfectly good? Did God create the “perfect world”?...
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Season 07
Whether God exists may depend on whether God is necessary. ‘Necessary’, in the philosophical sense, means ‘impossible not to exist’. Even if God...
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Philosophy of religion poses numerous questions about God: “proof” or “disproofs” of existence, nature and attributes, personhood, relation to time, relation to...
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