Ideas from 'Against the Physicists (two books)' by Sextus Empiricus [180], by Theme Structure

[found in 'Against the Physicists/Against the Ethicists' by Sextus Empiricus (ed/tr Bury,R.G.) [Harvard Loeb 1997,0-674-99344-6]].

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9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 8. Parts of Objects / c. Wholes from parts

22744

Parts are not parts if their whole is nothing more than the parts

12. Knowledge Sources / C. Rationalism / 1. Rationalism

22748

Some say motion is perceived by sense, but others say it is by intellect

15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 6. Idealisation

22746

If we try to conceive of a line with no breadth, it ceases to exist, and so has no length

17. Mind and Body / D. Property Dualism / 4. Emergentism

22741

The incorporeal is not in the nature of body, and so could not emerge from it

27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / a. Explaining movement

22747

A man walking backwards on a forwards-moving ship is moving in a fixed place

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / c. Tenses and time

22749

Time doesn't end with the Universe, because tensed statements about destruction remain true

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 3. Parts of Time / c. Intervals

22750

Time is divisible, into past, present and future

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 3. Parts of Time / e. Present moment

22742

Socrates either dies when he exists (before his death) or when he doesn't (after his death)

22751

If the present is just the limit of the past or the future, it can't exist because they don't exist

28. God / A. Divine Nature / 2. Divine Nature

22730

All men agree that God is blessed, imperishable, happy and good

22739

God must suffer to understand suffering

28. God / A. Divine Nature / 3. Divine Perfections

22738

The Divine must lack the virtues of continence and fortitude, because they are not needed

28. God / B. Proving God / 1. Proof of God

22734

God is defended by agreement, order, absurdity of denying God, and refutations

28. God / B. Proving God / 2. Proofs of Reason / b. Ontological Proof critique

22736

God's sensations imply change, and hence perishing, which is absurd, so there is no such God

22740

God without virtue is absurd, but God's virtues will be better than God

28. God / B. Proving God / 3. Proofs of Evidence / b. Teleological Proof

22735

The original substance lacked motion or shape, and was given these by a cause

28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 4. God Reflects Humanity

22732

The perfections of God were extrapolations from mankind

28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 5. Atheism

22728

Gods were invented as watchers of people's secret actions

22737

An incorporeal God could do nothing, and a bodily god would perish, so there is no God

29. Religion / A. Polytheistic Religion / 1. Animism

22731

It is mad to think that what is useful to us, like lakes and rivers, are gods