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What made Baruch Spinoza one of the most beguiling and influential thinkers of all time?Baruch Spinoza (born November 24, 1632) was a Dutch philosopher…
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Is believing in God different from believing in the tooth fairy or Santa Claus? Many people profess to believe in an all-powerful, all-knowing, benevolent…
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What kind of divinity allows its believers to suffer?A theodicy is an explanation about why a world created by a kind and all-powerful God contains so…
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What was so dangerous about Spinoza's ideas that he was ex-communicated for them?Baruch Spinoza was a 17th century Dutch philosopher who laid the…
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Is it just dumb luck that the universe has just the right settings to support life as we know it?If the precise value of many physical constants had been…
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if God is dead, what makes things immoral? Belief in God is thought by many to be the only possible source of morality, such that without a God,…
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The question of what happens to us after we die remains as mysterious now as it always was. Some think that death amounts to total annihilation of the…
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KALW's community storytelling project Hear Here has been asking Oakland and San Francisco residents about meaningful places in their neighborhood. KALW's…
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On this week's Philosophy Talk, the subject is pantheism: the doctrine that the world is either identical with God or an expression of His…