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Ep. 221 - We Might All Be Living in God's Dream (Hasidic Idealism) w/Dr. Samuel Lebens

Parker's Pensées

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Is God's Perfection?

Mullins made it up, but he was riffing on the PhD dissertation of Tazia Scruton and Leeds. I'm committed to the view that God can imagine evil things. I don't think I need to take a stance on why the evil is just a privation. Some people in aesthetics want to condemn artists and authors for their ability to imagine very dark things. But I actually think it's part of their aesthetic perfection that they can imagine those things. Perhaps even that they can see the beauty in them.

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