Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: God

  • Existence, God, and the Randians

    This is a follow-up to yesterday's  Rand and Existence Again. The following is by Leonard Peikoff: Every argument for God and every attribute ascribed to Him rests on a false metaphysical premise. None can survive for a moment on a correct metaphysics . . . . Existence exists, and only existence exists. Existence is a primary: it is…

  • Which Is More Certain: God or My Hand?

    A reader inquires, " I'm curious, if someone asked you what you were more certain of, your hand or belief in the existence of God, how would you respond?" The first thing a philosopher does when asked a question is examine the question.  (Would that ordinary folk, including TV pundits, would do likewise before launching into gaseous…