Podcasts Society & Culture Philosophy The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast Ep. 270: Classical Indian (Vedanta and Nyaya) Design Arguments for God w/ Stephen Phillips (Part One)

Ep. 270: Classical Indian (Vedanta and Nyaya) Design Arguments for God w/ Stephen Phillips (Part One)

Published: May 24, 2021, 7 a.m.

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On God and the World\'s Arrangement: Readings from Vedanta and Nyaya Philosophy of Religion with one of its translators, Stephen Phillips. Does nature require an intelligent designer? \\u015aa\\u1e45kara (710 CE) and V\\u0101caspati Mi\\u015bra (960 CE), commenting on the Brahma-s\\u016btra (ca. 200 CE) and Ny\\u0101ya-s\\u016btra (ca. 200 BCE), argue that it does against atheistic Buddhists, S\\u0101\\u1e43khya believers in a primordial matter that acts on its own, and the M\\u012bm\\u0101\\u1e43s\\u0101 conservatives who so venerated scripture that they ruled out a God who created it. But if we\'re all Brahman (God), just trying to discover that we are and so escape the cycle of rebirth, then where is there room for a particular deity who created us?

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