Rabbi Dr. David Gottlieb - Jewish Philosophy: Our Universe - Part 2

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so we're talking about national traditions which describe a national experience the ancestors of the people who have the tradition are described as having an experience which we would expect would change the life of the nation and i said that we're talking about national traditions over the world national experiences not necessarily having anything to do with religion they could be wars they could be technological inventions they could be migrations they could be pestilences and i said there's not a single one that's known to be false not one and therefore human experience that includes all of humanity i stress this because always i get someone saying but you're just assuming that what the book says is true and you're assuming judaism is true absolutely not i'm assuming anything kind i'm calling it into question i'm wondering what reason we have to accept it as true so we don't have any known cases that are false now i imagined a critic yesterday who said rabbi you're telling us to trust this tradition we have the tradition and we're supposed to trust that it's true i can easily imagine scenarios whereby this tradition could be created and not be true it could be the priests who feed mescal into the population and whip them into a frenzy and then tell them there was a national revelation or it could be the soldiers who kill out all the history teachers and put soldiers in as history teachers and teach little children this funny story

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1. 0:10so we're talking about national traditions which describe a national experience the ancestors of the people…
2. 5:20and it's false we know the tradition is false and was created by your scenario if…
3. 10:58to be false traditions like ours are not known to be false so i look at…
4. 16:33anything like that i'm not appealing to that what i'm saying is you're describing a certain…
5. 22:10but there is an intuition and the reason i call it the kuzuri principle is because…
6. 27:17take it into account and so on so about three years ago i said dope do…
7. 32:54lots of mistakes but they don't make every kind of mistake there's one maybe a couple…
8. 37:57then nothing's stopping them from forming the belief you know people believe things on the basis…
9. 43:32very sparse here the text just says god spoke these words it could be that he…
10. 48:39china it's there for an extended stay talking to people learning their culture after a while…

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