Galileo | 'Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina' | Philosophers Explained | Stephen Hicks

Philosophers, Explained covers major philosophers and texts, especially the great classics. In each episode, Professor Hicks discusses an important work, doing a close reading that lasts 40 minutes to an hour.

In this episode, Dr. Hicks does a close reading of this letter Galileo wrote to the Grand Duchess Christina to argue that science and Scripture are in fact compatible.

Timestamps:

00:38 The text
01:04 Is religion compatible with science?
04:39 The Bible is abstruse
08:04 The intended audience of the Bible
13:00 Science should be separate from the Bible
14:30 God wrote two books
17:24 Not undermining the Bible
19:38 Reason vs. faith
22:54 The sparseness of science in the Bible
23:55 The Bible is not about scientific inquiry
24:35 Copernican Position

Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University, USA, and has had visiting positions at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., University of Kasimir the Great in Poland, Oxford University’s Harris Manchester College in England, and Jagiellonian University in Poland.

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[chamwow]

Great video, and it's nice to see your channel still so active throughout all these years

[cheri]

Love all your videos, Professor Hicks. Thank you.❤️🌻

[StephenHicksPhilosopher]

The 30 in the first series include:
1. Immanuel Kant
2. Plato
3. Galileo Galilei
4. Ayn Rand
5. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
6. René Descartes
7. Jean-Paul Sartre
8. Socrates
9. Martin Heidegger
10. Thomas Aquinas
11. Arachne and Athena
12. Aristotle
13. Albert Camus
14. Friedrich Nietzsche
15. John Dewey
16. Sigmund Freud
17. G.W.F. Hegel
18. William James
19. Søren Kierkegaard
20. John Locke
21. Karl Marx
22. John Stuart Mill
23. Thales
24. Benito Mussolini and Giovanni Gentile
25. William Paley
26. C.S. Lewis
27. David Hume
28. John Maynard Keynes
29. Thomas Kuhn
30. George Orwell

[alephmale]

I never understood why they held that God choosing to miraculously halt the sun necessarily meant that the earth was the center of the universe. If God can miraculously change the sun in one way, why can’t he do it in a way that does not, for the duration of the miracle, disrupt the solar system? In the point of miracles that they supersede the natural course of things in a graceful way?

[SavingCommunitiesDS]

Most fundamentalists and atheists take the Bible literally. The fundamentalists do so that they may follow it without actually understanding, and the atheists do so that they may ridicule it without understanding.

[johnbrown]

The birthing of Modern Philosophy and the practice science.

[oldsachem]

The individual has no "right" to know the truth. At best he only has a right to find or test what be proffered for the truth. This premise alone was radical for the world at Galileo's time, for it means the individual is free to question what is true?

[JanSzafranski]

The Catholic church did not execute Bruno because of his view on heliocentrism

[eddieheron]

‘Conditioning’ children in the ways of ANY religion is clearly a form of Child Abuse.
Fortunately, I was brought up to have the freedom to reject all ‘christian’ alignment I’d been subjected to.
Working and travelling ALL over the world, I’ve privately conversed with several colleagues friends or acquaintances who professed frustration that they did not have the freedom I’d been able to assume in my world, tham basically feeling ‘obliged’ to fein their ‘faith’ - mostly Muslim or Catholic, both being quite ‘Hard Line’