HoP 140 - By All Means Necessary - Avicenna o...

An interview on the surprising comforts to be found in the philosophy of pessimism, focusing on Bayle but looking all the way forward to Schopenhauer. 

In the last of five episodes to celebrate reaching the episode 500 mark by looking at things he skipped in earlier series, Peter talks to Daniel Watson about philosophy in early medieval Ireland. 

On selections and commentary about Avicenna's argument from around 1020 C.E. for the existence of God as a necessary being, plus arguments to prove that God has the person-like properties that Islam imputes to him, and his "flying man" argument for the soul's essential independen ...  Show more

Is it conceivable that a person who comes up with an invention that saves thousands of lives would not benefit on the Day of Judgment? Could great inventors and researches that helped humanity end up in hellfire if they are disbelievers? Find the answers and much more in this w ...  Show more

response to a Stephen Hawking anti-nugget - we get it that computers don't have an afterlife, but their users do / response to a Christopher Hitchens anti-nugget - we get it that germs cause disease, but where did the germs come from? / the forgotten past of microbiology from ...

Everything in this universe is a definite proof of the existence of a Creator [Allah] who created it. Those who have sound intellect and natural disposition will understand this fully. Those who reject the existence of Allah do so because they seek tangible proofs which they c ...