2min chapter

Hi-Phi Nation cover image

The Man of Many Worlds IV

Hi-Phi Nation

CHAPTER

Is There a God in the Real World?

"I never heard any, you now, diatribes against it or from anybody. Just what were david lewis's religious views?" "They simply followed from his general philosophical views," he says. He believes in a plural of gods in many other worlds have gods but our world happens not to have a god. But whether there is a deity or deities that rule this world will depend on the facts of this particular world.

00:00
Speaker 4
I never picked up much of that. At one point i thought i wanted to go to church, so they let me, and an i decided i didn't want to, and that was the end of that. I never heard any, you now, diatribes against it or from anybody. Just
Speaker 1
what were david lewis's religious views? Well, systematic philosopher that he was, they simply followed from his general philosophical views.
Speaker 3
There's this good line about him, david lewis was the only polytheistic atheist. He believed in a plural of gods in many other worlds have gods, but our world, the actual world, happens not to have a god.
Speaker 1
If every possibility is an actuality in some possible world, then every possible deity or arrangement of deities very well exists in other possible worlds. The greek myths involving zeus hera and athena, if they are indeed coherent, consistent stories that are possible, exists in a world where they reign exactly as in the myths. The judao christian god, in all of his mixture of good and evil, reigns supreme in at least some possible world. But whether there is a deity or deities that rule this world will depend on the facts of this particular world. And here, observation and study suggested to david lewis that there was no such deity.

Get the Snipd
podcast app

Unlock the knowledge in podcasts with the podcast player of the future.
App store bannerPlay store banner

AI-powered
podcast player

Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features

AI-powered
podcast player

Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features

Discover
highlights

Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode

Discover
highlights

Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode

Save any
moment

Hear something you like? Tap your headphones to save it with AI-generated key takeaways

Save any
moment

Hear something you like? Tap your headphones to save it with AI-generated key takeaways

Share
& Export

Send highlights to Twitter, WhatsApp or export them to Notion, Readwise & more

Share
& Export

Send highlights to Twitter, WhatsApp or export them to Notion, Readwise & more

AI-powered
podcast player

Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features

AI-powered
podcast player

Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features

Discover
highlights

Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode

Discover
highlights

Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode