Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Aristotle, Anaxagoras and A.R. Hall

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28. God / A. Divine Nature / 1. God
2629 Anaxagoras was the first to say that the universe is directed by an intelligence [Anaxagoras, by Cicero]
22726 When things were unified, Mind set them in order [Anaxagoras]
28. God / A. Divine Nature / 2. Divine Nature
5119 The source of all movement must be indivisible and have no magnitude [Aristotle]
2836 God is not blessed and happy because of external goods, but because of his own nature [Aristotle]
622 There must a source of movement which is eternal, indivisible and without magnitude [Aristotle]
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 / 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]
28. God / B. Proving God / 2. Proofs of Reason / b. Ontological Proof critique
12278 'Being' and 'oneness' are predicated of everything which exists [Aristotle]
1688 Properties must be proved, but not essence; but existents are not a kind, so existence isn't part of essence [Aristotle]
28. God / B. Proving God / 3. Proofs of Evidence / b. Teleological Proof
480 Past, present and future, and the movements of the heavens, were arranged by Mind [Anaxagoras]
13226 An Order controls all things [Aristotle]
610 The world can't be arranged at all if there is nothing eternal and separate [Aristotle]
28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 4. God Reflects Humanity
2802 Men imagine gods to be of human shape, with a human lifestyle [Aristotle]
28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 5. Atheism
5956 Anaxagoras was charged with impiety for calling the sun a lump of stone [Anaxagoras, by Plutarch]
7488 Anaxagoras was the first recorded atheist [Anaxagoras, by Watson]