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Show ' ;'f ' "' ? " "" ''" ' 111 1 11 "" '' " '" mi ii I I iiinmif pTMWf itirriillnniiliiTiiWftfnliitt' ! Issues Forum Closes With Texan's Talk By LELAND JONAS Chronicle Political Editor Dr. Charles Hartshorne, Professor of Philosophy at the University Uni-versity of Texas, delivered a very philosophically stimulating, powerful, and scholarly paper on the "Religious Aspects of Necessity Nec-essity and Contingency" last Wednesday night on the concluding conclud-ing program of the Great Issues Forum. DR. STERLING McMurrin moderated the program. "Philosophy of religon, in its best-known forms, has often combined two doctrines which are not only dubious in themselves them-selves but also mutually inconsistent," stated Prof. Hartshorne. THE EXISTENCE of God must be argued for on a prior grounds, commented Dr. Hartshorne. Dr. Hortshorne quipped that he couldn't complain that no one understands him, for he believes that God does. He further noted that he wouldn't just drop out of existence, like falling out of an airplane without a parachute. THE FACT that he would not be forgotten, at least by God, is a contingent truth of God. NEW INSURANCE PROGRAM Dave Smith, left, and ASUU President Giff Price discuss with National Student Association insurance chairman George Pugsley the new student insurance program. The Senate, Executive Council and the Student Affairs Committee have approved 'the new program which will go into effect Fall Quarter of next year. God must be unsurpassable and worshipful, and have wisdom wis-dom and goodness as necessary properties. ALSO, WHEN He deals with the world, He deals with it wisely and righteously. . In answer to a question, Prof. Hartshorne remarked that there is no need for more than one necessary being. ALSO, HE said, God didn't know men in the eternity, for men are only everlasting. God must have contingent . properties which He relates Himself to the world. The question, quest-ion, Dr. Hartshorne noted, is not whether God exists, but in what states and contingent properties pro-perties does He exist. WITHOUT GOD, nothing could make sense. Science may discover whatever what-ever it pleases, but not to say God is its author would be blasphemy. IN DISCUSSING the various refutations of St. Anselm's ont-ological ont-ological proof of God, Dr. Hartshorne Hart-shorne stated that Findlay was the only philosophy in nine centuries cent-uries to relate his refutation clearly to the sort of consideration considera-tion proposed by Anselm. Other endeavars he dubbed as purely unscholarly carelessness on the part of many great philosophers, phil-osophers, including Kant. |