God's Existence: Ultimacy, Souls, and Evil | Richard Swinburne | The Socratic Sessions | Ep #24

🔍 Overview: In this episode, Professor Richard Swinburne and Sam explore key ideas within philosophy of religion to understand whether God does, in fact, exist.

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🗣️ Highlights
[Highlight 1]: What is the foundation of everything?
[Highlight 2]: How do Souls deal with the 'hard problem of consciousness'?
[Highlight 3]: Are Evil and the notion of a good God antithetical?

🕒 Timestamps
0:00 - Introduction
2:49 - Richard Swinburne & Philosophy
7:52 - Materialism, Humanism and Theism
14:38 - Steelmanning Materialism
19:41 - Consciousness and Souls
28:28 - The Hard Problem of Souls
34:16 - Panpsychism
40:05 - Comparable Goods and Evil
54:11 - Animal Suffering
1:07:28 - Closing Remarks

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Could a Good God Permit So Much Suffering?: A Debate by Richard Swinburne & James P. Sterba: https://amzn.to/3WCmvi4
Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind by Annaka Harris: https://amzn.to/4dQv1iS
Galileo's Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness by Philip Goff: https://amzn.to/3BQgkir
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