On 10/13/2014 9:26 AM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote:
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 2:17 AM, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net
<mailto:meeke...@verizon.net>> wrote:
On 10/12/2014 2:35 PM, LizR wrote:
I imagine most philosophers don't think about God because God isn't a
very good
explanation for anything. You just have to ask "where did God come
from?" so see
that you've just been diverted away from the quest for knowledge of
ultimate (or
original) causes.
That's true of the Arbrahamic, theist kind of God, which was my point to Bruno.
Philosophers may very well think about "why we are here" or "the set of unprovable
truths", but they respect common usage of language enough not to call it
"thinking
about God", or "theology", as Bruno would have them do.
I just wanted to comment on all the sniping concerning Bruno's alleged "unusual use of
the terms theology/belief/god": Having been introduced to a few members of catholic
theology faculty of Trier, I've had a few discussions concerning the topic, and the use
is not considered non-standard, when equated with ineffable, inconceivable, collection
of all sets, transcendence/transcendental entity, reason or foundation/reality, god etc.
Call it "working hypothesis" if you're vain enough and want to distinguish yourself and
your usage from the common folk, if you need to. Same difference.
And I think it should raise an eyebrow, that this usage conforms even to conservative
German Catholic theologian use, admittedly not the more traditional ones among them, but
to academics, there didn't seem to be a problem.
Philosophers and members of this list who consider this non-standard should therefore
point to some evidence
Exactly what I did. I pointed to an interview between academic philosophers of religion
who opined that the the problem of evil was the most convincing argument against the
existence of God. This clearly assumes that "God" does NOT refer to some ineffable
collection of sets or foundation of reason or all uncomputable truths.
Brent
instead of the constant whining/sniping/policing without backup (which includes begging
with "popular use" justifications; since when is this equated with serious evidence?).
Catholic theologian are ahead of you + you guys don't offer any alternative, therefore
you bore chanting this nonsense again and again, that not only exhibits consistency with
neo-platonist (or Brent's "old Greeks") but with confessional Catholic theologians
today, so get over it. PGC
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