Allusion PATC philosophical conundrum question
if a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to see it, does it make a sound"-George Barkley Irish philospher
Dillards answer to the philosophical conundrum
Beauty and grace are preformed whether or not we sense them
PATC Anlogy Eskimo
An Eskimo man marries a woman and they live in her mother's tent. The Mother is jealous of her daughter's husband and kills her daughter and sews the daughter's face to hers. The boy comes back and flees in horror.
Effect of the eskimo analogy
questioning if good is a fraud
Chapter 1 Koran
in the Koran Allah wonders if Heaven and earth was created in jest
Central theme pain
if there is a god why do bad things happen
simile PATC seeing
Nature is like line drawings that are puzzles for children, can you fid an object.
praying mantis
paralyzes its pray, female eats male during mating, brutality.
what is the fixed in PATC
something that is outside of are control and where scared of it because of this.
what does it represent polyephomus moth trapped in mason Jar
The fixed human intervention in nature.
what kind of book is pilgrim at Tinker Creek
a theodicy
Theodicy
the theological question that tries to connect belief in God's justice with the reality that sometimes good people suffer unjustly and die
What kind of book is Sirens of Titan
A novel
analogy sirens of titan
A dry Fountain in the beginning symbolizing a dry life
Church of god the utterly indifferent
WNR church that all of earth joins after the martian war.
major themes in Sirens of Titan
Fate vrs. Free will e.x. Jonah and the whale
Jonah and the whale
The story of a prophet who fled to sea rather than answer God's call to prophesy in the city of Nineval. God created a storm, causing other sailors to throw Jonah overboard. Jonah, swallowed by a large fish, spends three days in the fish's belly, praying
what do harmoniums say to each other
here I am" "So Glad you are
Harmoniums charechtorization
have none of the worst human attributes e.x. envy fear
only have one sense touch...
which book has an epigraph sirens or PATC
Sirens
which book has an afterword
PATC
Via Positiva
It assumes we can know and understand God by, for example, studying creation and revelation, through prayer and reflection, and through religious experience
via negativa
assumes our human knowledge and understanding are incapable of understanding the qualities of god