PHIL 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Theism, Epicurus, Secularism

• School: York University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 1100
• Professor: Julie Andrews

Document Summary

All reason suggests that life is nothing. Problems are tougher questions and not analyzed in terms of reason. Has the power of life, a sense of the infinite. ( irrational belief (knowledge) God is one and three - how can a unity be. How do u know god exists (personal thought: religion gives reason, without it we are simply here to die, we are born to die) Science can tell us what things are possible and what they are, but science can"t explain what it means. Science cannot give meaning to things, science takes it as a fact from an empirical point of view x exists . Science can describe human life, but can"t identify or give meaning, to human life in particular. Science (physics, astronomy, etc) points us to our complete insignificance in the larger scheme of things. Biology tells us about our evolution, but doesn"t tell us if it is purpose.