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PREMIUM-Episode 30: Schopenhauer on Explanations and Knowledge

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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Kant's Principle of Sufficient Reason

The ontological argument says something like, oh, i have this idea of god, and the idea is so awesome that it must have been caused by something more awesome than it. God? That's a very short sion of descartes's version, but that's right there. You can see, oh, relations between ideas. Shobeni was going to say, that's something that logic treats, relation between actual things existing in the world, like a god. No, that should be causality, if anything, right? Which, if you listened to our kant episode, you would see that god specifically is something that our knowledge doesn't extend to.

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