Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Herodotus, Aristotle and M. Tullius Cicero

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28. God / A. Divine Nature / 2. Divine Nature
2836 God is not blessed and happy because of external goods, but because of his own nature [Aristotle]
5119 The source of all movement must be indivisible and have no magnitude [Aristotle]
622 There must a source of movement which is eternal, indivisible and without magnitude [Aristotle]
28. God / A. Divine Nature / 4. Divine Contradictions
2645 Why shouldn't the gods fear their own destruction? [Cicero]
28. God / A. Divine Nature / 5. God and Time
7603 God is not a creator (involving time and change) and is not concerned with the inferior universe [Aristotle, by Armstrong,K]
28. God / A. Divine Nature / 6. Divine Morality / b. Euthyphro question
2627 I wonder whether loss of reverence for the gods would mean the end of all virtue [Cicero]
28. God / A. Divine Nature / 6. Divine Morality / d. God decrees morality
2651 God doesn't obey the laws of nature; they are subject to the law of God [Cicero]
28. God / B. Proving God / 1. Proof of God
16165 For Aristotle God is defined in an axiom, for which there is no proof [Aristotle, by Frede,M]
28. God / B. Proving God / 2. Proofs of Reason / a. Ontological Proof
13227 Being is better than not-being [Aristotle]
2634 It seems clear to me that we have an innate idea of the divine [Cicero]
28. God / B. Proving God / 2. Proofs of Reason / b. Ontological Proof critique
2636 Many primitive people know nothing of the gods [Cicero]
1688 Properties must be proved, but not essence; but existents are not a kind, so existence isn't part of essence [Aristotle]
12278 'Being' and 'oneness' are predicated of everything which exists [Aristotle]
28. God / B. Proving God / 3. Proofs of Evidence / b. Teleological Proof
13226 An Order controls all things [Aristotle]
610 The world can't be arranged at all if there is nothing eternal and separate [Aristotle]
2647 It is obvious from order that someone is in charge, as when we visit a gymnasium [Cicero]
2650 If a person cannot feel the power of God when looking at the stars, they are probably incapable of feeling [Cicero]
2655 If the barbarians of Britain saw a complex machine, they would be baffled, but would know it was designed [Cicero]
2656 Chance is no more likely to create the world than spilling lots of letters is likely to create a famous poem [Cicero]
28. God / B. Proving God / 3. Proofs of Evidence / c. Teleological Proof critique
2657 If everything with regular movement and order is divine, then recurrent illnesses must be divine [Cicero]
28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 1. Monotheism
2638 Either the gods are identical, or one is more beautiful than another [Cicero]
28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 4. God Reflects Humanity
2802 Men imagine gods to be of human shape, with a human lifestyle [Aristotle]
2635 The gods are happy, so virtuous, so rational, so must have human shape [Cicero]
28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 5. Atheism
2641 Why believe in gods if you have never seen them? [Cicero]