{"id":912,"date":"2024-11-09T19:15:52","date_gmt":"2024-11-09T19:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/?p=912"},"modified":"2024-11-09T19:17:40","modified_gmt":"2024-11-09T19:17:40","slug":"the-transcendental-argument-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/the-transcendental-argument-complete\/","title":{"rendered":"The Transcendental Argument&mdash;Complete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the full length version of the series Pts 1-6 you can find on my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@mmacneill123\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> channel.  We examine in more detail Transcendentalism and the Transcendental Argument for God.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The-Transcendental-Argument-Complete\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1028008049?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>00:00:00 The Importance of Aesthetic appreciation<br \/>\n00:05:20 Something can be beautiful and functional<br \/>\n00:06:00 Review of previous series:<br \/>\n00:08:00 Theory of Types<br \/>\n00:10:00 Proof and the Scientific Method<br \/>\n00:14:20 Necessity and Probability<br \/>\n00:16:00 Rhetorical rephrasing &#8211; John Frame<br \/>\n00:19:00 Clarifying the Transcendental Argument form<br \/>\n00:19:45 The TAG and its critics<br \/>\n00:22:40 Aristotle&#8217;s argument for logic<br \/>\n00:24:00 The argument against breathing is possible only if you are breathing<br \/>\n00:26:44 The argument form &#8211; Assume X (uncontroversial). X has the presupposition Y (controversial).<br \/>\n00:27:00 The Reductio &#8211; defeating scepticism<br \/>\n00:30:00 &#8216;Nothing can be known&#8217; &#8211; except that &#8216;Nothing can be known&#8217;<br \/>\n00:30:00 Summary<br \/>\n00:31:29 P F Strawson&#8217;s argument for particular identity<br \/>\n00:35:30 The particular exception does not invalidate a transcendental<br \/>\n00:37:00 The sceptical argument assumes what it is trying to disprove<br \/>\n00:38:14 Berkeley&#8217;s theory of knowledge as a reaction to materialism<br \/>\n00:41:20 Kant vs Strawson<br \/>\n00:44:00 Modern philosophy and transcendentalism<br \/>\n00:45:25 Option &#8216;A&#8217; and Option &#8216;B&#8217; arguments<br \/>\n00:47:15 The noumenal and the phenomenal<br \/>\n00:48:47 Stroud&#8217;s objection to TAs<br \/>\n00:49:36 The TAG and its apologetic implications<br \/>\n01:01:00 Option &#8216;A&#8217; arguments as a rational proof<br \/>\n01:01:50 The Van Tillian TAG &#8211; Worldview coherence<br \/>\n01:03:53 Stroud and the TAG<br \/>\n01:04:56 Bridging the gap between Mind and World &#8211; Verificationism<br \/>\n01:07:00 Donald Davidson and &#8216;Conceptual Schemes&#8217;<br \/>\n01:12:20 Other Conceptual schemes?<br \/>\n01:13:06 God&#8217;s conceptual scheme<br \/>\n01:14:55 Bridged the gap between Mind and World?<br \/>\n01:16:17 Reliabilism<br \/>\n01:17:30 Representational realism<br \/>\n01:18:04 Naive realism<br \/>\n01:19:07 Reid as a response to Hume<br \/>\n01:19:40 Plantinga as a development of Reid<br \/>\n01:20:42 Plantinga&#8217;s Terminus<br \/>\n01:22:00 Justification and Warrant<br \/>\n01:24:48 Rational belief vs Living Faith<br \/>\n01:26:00 Religious experience<br \/>\n01:26:55 Kierkegaard&#8217;s rejection of reason as adequate in matters of faith<br \/>\n01:28:00 Natural Theology vs Natural Revelation<br \/>\n01:30:00 Reformed Theology<br \/>\n01:31:42 Pascal&#8217;s reasons of the heart<br \/>\n01:32:30 Van Til&#8217;s Transcendental Argument<br \/>\n01:32:43 The precondition for all intelligibility<br \/>\n01:35:00 The implicit circularity of reasoning<br \/>\n01:37:00 The post-modern critique<br \/>\n01:38:00 The transcendent transcendental &#8211; the Trinity<br \/>\n01:40:00 Faith and Reason<br \/>\n01:42:30 Pura naturalis (an independent realm of nature)<br \/>\n01:43:00 Covenant as the basis of natural law<br \/>\n01:46:00 Van Til&#8217;s Transcendentalism<br \/>\n01:47:50 Van Til&#8217;s Transcendental Argument restated<br \/>\n01:50:00 Possibility and worldview<br \/>\n01:51:15 The Form of Life<br \/>\n01:52:00 Christian Theism as the Prerequisite for Intelligibility<br \/>\n01:55:00 Voluntarism as a response to Kant<br \/>\n01:57:00 The Trinitarian concept of God alone is sufficient<br \/>\n02:01:00 Philosophical questions as Religious questions<br \/>\n02:03:26 Sartre&#8217;s &#8216;Words&#8217;<br \/>\n02:05:09 Huxley and Russell &#8211; the erotic revolt<br \/>\n02:07:33 Deconstruction<br \/>\n02:09:00 The crisis of the West<br \/>\n02:09:30 The technocratic elite<br \/>\n02:11:41 God and gods in the Public Square<br \/>\n02:12:10 The transhumanists and their rejection of natural rights<br \/>\n02:13:45 Review<br \/>\n02:15:30 Describing vs Explaining<br \/>\n02:17:30 Einstein and his nurse<br \/>\n02:19:00 Why Carnap worked on Sunday<br \/>\n02:20:17 The intellectual requirements for Christian philosophy<br \/>\n02:21:00 How Christianity Changed the World<br \/>\n02:23:00 Summary and the Power of the TA<br \/>\n02:30:00 God&#8217;s Thoughts and Our Thoughts<br \/>\n02:31:30 Plantinga and Van Til compared and contrasted<br \/>\n02:34:48 The Universal and the Particular<br \/>\n02:36:00 Final Summary and Conclusion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the full length version of the series Pts 1-6 you can find on my YouTube channel. 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