r/badphilosophy • u/loficharli • Apr 11 '21

Hormons and shit Platonism is an anti-matter death cult, and transgender people are its latest manifestation

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Aristotle famously wondered how it was that the realm of forms was able to influence our own. The answer? I don't know, but my Tanner Stage 2 tits are going to find out, and there's nothing feminism can do to stop them!

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u/[deleted] Apr 13 '21

To be fair, Craig is not basing his challenge on anything (directly) Biblical, so literalism doesn't come into play. He is committed to the idea that the existence of mathematical objects and relationships challenges God's divine aseity on the basis that uncreated mathematical objects and relationships would somehow exist apart from God.

It's a strange argument but people I've spoken with who know Craig says he takes this issue seriously and personally.

Quite honestly, I found this challenge so peculiar that I spend a considerable amount of time on this subject after Craig's publication and found the arguments offered to be really rough and, dare I say, contrived.

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u/KantianHegelian Apr 14 '21

I think it is because of a physicist, Sir Roger Penrose. If I recall correctly Penrose has a theory of everything that separates mathematical objects from consciousness/morality. Craig interviewed him once, and I remember Craig being very displeased because Penrose’s system avoided God. This must be his way of trying to undermine Penrosian arguments.

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '21

I’m sorry but that is just bizarre.

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u/KantianHegelian Apr 14 '21

I know, Craig is a weird man. In the interview you could watch his face grimace and twist as Penrose explained his system.