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Swami Sarvapriyananda is a Hindu monk belonging to the Ramakrishna Order. He is the current resident Swami and Minister in Charge, of the Vedanta Society of New York.

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TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 – Tour

00:32 – An Intro to Hinduism and Advaita Vedanta

14:31 – What Are the Upanishads

22:08 – Where Do the Vedas (Scripture) Come From?

29:02 – What Does “Upanishad” Mean?

34:36 – What Do the Upanishads Teach Us?

47:07 – What Is Brahman, or Ultimate Existence?

1:02:52 – What Is the True Nature of Consciousness?

1:08:15 – Non-Dualism in Advaita Vedanta

1:18:34 – Why Isn’t There Just One Big Consciousness?

1:29:06 – What Is the Self?

1:36:30 – Are Brahman and Atman the Same Thing?

1:45:25 – What Does ‘God’ Mean in Hinduism?

1:49:07 – Does Hinduism Believe Other Religions Are Incorrect?

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Joe Schmid is a PhD student in philosophy at Princeton University and creator of the Majesty of Reason YouTube channel. He graduated with a B.A. in philosophy from Purdue University in 2022. He has published articles in metaphysics, philosophy of religion, and philosophy of time, and the author of books including "Existential Inertia and Classical Theistic Proofs".

Felipe Leon’s 200 arguments for atheism: https://exapologist.blogspot.com/2023/03/200-or-so-arguments-for-atheism.html

TIMESTAMPS

00:00 – Tour

00:32 – Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence

07:50 – There Is No Evidence for God

25:27 – Who Created God?

49:44 – Science Flies You to the Moon, Religion Flies You into Buildings

01:02:33 – Your Location Determines Your Religion

01:28:33 – Claims Are Not Evidence

01:32:50 – You Can’t Prove a Negative

01:38:35 – What Can Be Asserted Without Evidence Can Be Dismissed Without Evidence

01:43:51 – Faith Is Belief Without Evidence

01:54:59 – Religion Makes Good People Do Bad Things

01:55:32 – Absence of Evidence Is Evidence of Absence

01:56:31 – Theism Is Unfalsifiable

02:01:03 – Science Books Would Come Back, Religions Would Not

02:12:58 – Evolution Disproves God

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John Sellars is a Reader in philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London, a visiting Research Fellow at King's College London and a Member of Wolfson College, Oxford. His books include Lessons in Stoicism, The Fourfold Remedy, Aristotle and his work has been translated into over a dozen languages.

TIMESTAMPS

00:00 – Tour

00:32 – Did Socrates Found Stoicism?

08:03 – The Three Eras of Stoicism

17:50 – Stoic Logic

26:19 – Empiricism: How the Stoics Got Knowledge

34:33 – Materialism: Only Physical Things Exist

43:00 – How Reason Fundamentally Animates the Universe

48:43 – Did the Stoics Believe in God?

59:37 – Do the Stoics Contradict Themselves?

01:08:17 – Stoic Ethics

01:24:24 – How Did the Stoics Deal With Evil?

01:36:32 – Can You Choose Your Outcome If Everything Is Determined?