Fag. Six SCARLET AND ILACK Friday. November 1'. "6! } Existentialism (Continued from Page 5) must get out of the throes of the problem and think about I! in or- der to see the point." The greatest difficulty that Smith found in Kierkegaard's view was his acceptance of the doctrine that existence “means only what it means for sense objects; God. emotions, human relations do not ‘exrst'.” This View of nature of reality “excludes God at the out- set, not just at the end. God has to be dead if he does not exist, and does not exist at the outset.” Smith asked, "What is the jus» tificatiim for the View that God does not exist, but is real?" “You Can’t begin with an intel~ lectual commitment [D reality by excluding God at the outset and expecting to bring him back through irony at the end," he con- tinued. Thereiore, this theory must be questioned in open up a whole new discussion to get into new metaphysical problems, Thai Educator Here For Student Talks Dr. and Mrs, Konrad Kingshill, educators from Thailand, are vis- iung on campus this weekend in connection with the Fifth Year ‘lbroad program. Today at 4:15 students may {meet the guests informally at n gufiee hour in the South Lounge. Tomorrow he will hold confer- ences with all those interested in the Fifth Year Abroad program. They may be scheduled through Dirk Baay. On Sunday, Klngshlll Will speak in chapel. Objectivity. Subjectivity Merge During Lecture Ky PAUL G. KUNTZ John E. Smith delivered the Gates Lectures on “The Problem of God." The problem is the real- ity of God. That. is, considering all that is, what ground is there for the whole system? All religion, ac- cording to Smith, hangs on the an- swer. The earlier approaches led up to the "Metaphysical Approach” in the third lecture, SmiLh advised his audience that his method was dialectical as a Socratic search for definition, moving from the inade- quate to the adequate. Biblical revelation discloses God in and with events told in histori- cal order. God never appears ex- cept in circumstances in which men act. Hence a peculiarity oi Biblical theology: it retells the mighty acts ascribed to God, but does not argue. Herein is the weak- on Metaphysics ness or such a theology- it must interpret, yet it professes to be wholly objective. Smith moved on from the posi» tion of pure objectivity m the po- sition of pure subjectivity — that is, to Existentialism. The classical existentialist, Soeren Kierkegaard, wrote to shock us into awareness of our unique privacy. The religious existentialisi has a relation be- tween two subjects, the human self and the divine self. In this rela» tionship, there is no world, in the sense of nature or of society. The Kierkegaardian drops the world out of his scheme. in its way, this is as inadequate as the Biblical approach in its way. In a subtle manner, the third ap- proach, the metaphysical, pulled the objective and the subjective aspects of reality together. But the third lecture was not a synthesis of two earlier stages. Smith’s ar- neuron CLINIC Immediate Service on All Foreign Cars Transmission Repair Engine Overhaul & Reboring Front End Alignmeni ALL LABOR GUARANTEED BANK RATE FINANCING Dial 236-6291 615 - 4th Ave. Rear Grinnell gument rests on taking the sen as the model of reality. Only in the self do we know the one and the many together. Then by analogy we move from the sell that has a body to God that has the world. This is no proof, said Smith, for a proper hypothesis can be only tested by absence Lil a condition But God as ground of being is such that it must be always present. What is there that leads men to recognize the presence of an une limited knower? The Search for knowledge in human experience such as the history of science is a search for an infinite goal. The scientific quest can never attain perfect tmtli, it can only approxi- mate to a complete body of correct answers. Hence human experience of a world presupposes God, for men mean by God an ultimate consciousness, related to all, which 310118 is what Could be called the consciousness ot pcriect truth. Smith, when charged with hav~ ing assumed God from the begiiie ning, accepted this analysis as correct, But then he responded. why he like Sartre, whn excludes God from the beginning? Sartre can't be Sartre if God is real. The test between a [hEISllC and an lithe» istic position is the adequacy to all that we know. 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