Use of Philosophic Works in New Church Education, Parts 1-2
Type of Event: Class
Date Recorded: August 16, 1963
Location: Bryn Athyn, PA
Groups: Educational Council Meetings / Talks
Educational Council Meetings. Part 1: Introduction, Limitation of scope to cosmology (cosmogony) of the Principia. Definition of philosophy, historical background of Swedenborg's day (intellectual climate), Bacon, Descartes, Hobbs, Locke, Leibniz, Newton, Wolfe, Berkeley, Hume, Kant. Definition of New Church Philosophy. Relating science to revelation. Summary of Swedenborg's hypotheses. Part 2 (held on 8-17-63): Use of Swedenborg's Philosophy in New Church Education. Previous efforts at explaining creation. Spinoza, Leibniz, Euclidean geometry, Wolfe, Quote, Prologue, Animal Kingdom, p. 17, 18 on Swedenborg directing philosophical efforts to skeptics. Discussion of "pure and total motion." Recording length 50 minutes and 58 minutes.
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