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What Is God Like?: Crash Course Philosophy
Today we are moving on from the existence of God to look at the philosophical debate surrounding the traditional divine attributes - omnipotence, omniscience, omnitemporality, and omnibenevolence. We are exploring the puzzles that these...
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Natural Law Theory: Crash Course Philosophy
Our exploration of ethical theories continues with another theistic answer to the grounding problem: natural law theory. Thomas Aquinas’s version of this theory says that we all seek out what’s known as the basic goods and argued that...
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Intelligent Design: Crash Course Philosophy
Last week we introduced Thomas Aquinas’s four cosmological arguments for the existence of god; today we introduce his fifth argument: the teleological argument, and the ensuing dialogue it initiated.
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Late Medieval Philosophy: Abelard, Avicenna, Aquinas, et al.
We've covered early medieval philosophy, so let's move forward to the later part of this era, which is called the Scholastic period. This is marked by a strong Aristotelian influence, as well as the rise of universities as we know them...
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Holocaust-denying bishop told to leave country or face expulsion
La Reja, Buenos Aires Province
1. Wide shot of seminary where Bishop Richard Williamson worked
2. Zoom into entrance to seminary
3. Priest Alvaro Calderon walks towards camera
4. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Alvaro Calderon, Priest:
"I don't...
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WRAP Bishop expelled by Argentina arrives in UK
1. Various of Roman Catholic Bishop Richard Williamson arriving at Heathrow Airport, guided through media scrum by police
2. Williamson surrounded by police walking through media out of airport entrance
3. High shot of Williamson...
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Crash Course Philosophy #12: What Is God Like?
Crash Course video moves from the questions of existence to explore the puzzle of divine attributes and ask what God is like. [10:31]
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Crash Course Philosophy #10: Aquinas and the Cosmological Arguments
Crash Course video on Thomas Aquinas considers his first four cosmological arguments. [10:25]
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Crash Course Philosophy #34: Natural Law Theory
This video episode "Crash Course Philosophy #34: Natural Law Theory," Hank continues the exploration of ethical theories with another theistic answer to the grounding problem: natural law theory. Thomas Aquinas's version of this theory...