Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Arcesilaus, Plato and Roger Penrose

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28. God / A. Divine Nature / 2. Divine Nature
13783 Even the gods love play [Plato]
279 Only divine things can always stay the same, and bodies are not like that [Plato]
28. God / A. Divine Nature / 3. Divine Perfections
175 Gods are not lovers of wisdom, because they are already wise [Plato]
152 The mind of God is fully satisfied and happy with a vision of reality and truth [Plato]
28. God / A. Divine Nature / 4. Divine Contradictions
2630 If Plato's God is immaterial, he will lack consciousness, wisdom, pleasure and movement, which are essential to him [Cicero on Plato]
28. God / A. Divine Nature / 6. Divine Morality / b. Euthyphro question
336 Is what is pious loved by the gods because it is pious, or is it pious because they love it? (the 'Euthyphro Question') [Plato]
337 It seems that the gods love things because they are pious, rather than making them pious by loving them [Plato]
28. God / A. Divine Nature / 6. Divine Morality / c. God is the good
2058 God must be the epitome of goodness, and we can only approach a divine state by being as good as possible [Plato]
28. God / A. Divine Nature / 6. Divine Morality / d. God decrees morality
8004 In 'The Laws', to obey the law is to be obey god [Plato, by MacIntyre]
28. God / B. Proving God / 2. Proofs of Reason / a. Ontological Proof
234 We couldn't discuss the non-existence of the One without knowledge of it [Plato]
28. God / B. Proving God / 3. Proofs of Evidence / a. Cosmological Proof
21257 Self-generating motion is clearly superior to all other kinds of motion [Plato]
21258 The only possible beginning for the endless motions of reality is something self-generated [Plato]
21261 Self-moving soul has to be the oldest thing there is [Plato]
28. God / B. Proving God / 3. Proofs of Evidence / b. Teleological Proof
274 Soul must be the cause of all the opposites, such as good and evil or beauty and ugliness [Plato]
21263 If all the motions of nature reflect calculations of reason, then the best kind of soul must direct it [Plato]
28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 3. Deism
14 If the gods are non-existent or indifferent, why bother to deceive them? [Plato]
28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 4. God Reflects Humanity
150 We cannot conceive of God, so we have to think of Him as an immortal version of ourselves [Plato]
28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 5. Atheism
149 There isn't a single reason for positing the existence of immortal beings [Plato]
278 If astronomical movements are seen as necessary instead of by divine will, this leads to atheism [Plato]