# "Thomistic Idealism" **URL:** \ **Category:** Metaphysics & Epistemology\ **Created:** [April 23, 2026, 12:53am UTC](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/thomistic-idealism/780 "2026-04-23T00:53:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 13
**Author:** ![Wayfarer](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex007/user_avatar/www.thephilosophyforum.com/wayfarer/32/123_2.png) [@Wayfarer](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/u/Wayfarer)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2026, 12:03am UTC](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/thomistic-idealism/780/13 "2026-04-27T00:03:16Z")
> [@tabemann](#): > > After all, I see a deistic conception of God, such as my example that I have mentioned on here of God as a greater intelligence (a ‘cosmic programmer’ perhaps) running our universe as a simulation (say, within a great cosmic computer) embedded in a greater universe that they designed, initialized, and set in motion but do not intervene in as perfectly plausible. With respect, it’s not. That only seems plausible from the Newtonian perspective of the ‘Great Machine’ from which both mind and God are disembodied and perfectly detached. In reality, the appearance of living beings is itself the visible manifestation of intentionality (which is the great lesson of phenomenology, see [On Purpose](https://medium.com/@jonathan.shearman/on-purpose-c834903fd7f7?sk=6f8ba807041ac20209227272b1ad3628)). The meaningless universe from which the Sacred has withdrawn is itself an abstraction, albeit a highly persuasive one. --- _[View the full topic](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/thomistic-idealism/780)._