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Ideas for B Hale / C Wright, Plato and Immanuel Kant

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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]
5633 We don't accept duties as coming from God, but assume they are divine because they are duties [Kant]
8046 We can only know we should obey God if we already have moral standards for judging God [Kant, by MacIntyre]
6199 Obligation does not rest on the existence of God, but on the autonomy of reason [Kant]
3721 We judge God to be good by a priori standards of moral perfection [Kant]
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 / 1. Proof of God
5607 Only three proofs of God: the physico-theological (evidence), the cosmological (existence), the ontological (a priori) [Kant]
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 / 2. Proofs of Reason / b. Ontological Proof critique
8451 Existence is merely derived from the word 'is' (rather than being a predicate) [Kant, by Orenstein]
3321 Modern logic says (with Kant) that existence is not a predicate, because it has been reclassified as a quantifier [Benardete,JA on Kant]
13732 Kant never denied that 'exist' could be a predicate - only that it didn't enlarge concepts [Kant, by Fitting/Mendelsohn]
5608 Is "This thing exists" analytic or synthetic? [Kant]
5609 If 'this exists' is analytic, either the thing is a thought, or you have presupposed its existence [Kant]
5610 If an existential proposition is synthetic, you must be able to cancel its predicate without contradiction [Kant]
5611 Being is not a real predicate, that adds something to a concept [Kant]
5612 You add nothing to the concept of God or coins if you say they exist [Kant]
28. God / B. Proving God / 2. Proofs of Reason / c. Moral Argument
20714 God is not proved by reason, but is a postulate of moral thinking [Kant, by Davies,B]
1453 We have to postulate something outside nature which makes happiness coincide with morality [Kant]
1455 Belief in justice requires belief in a place for justice (heaven), a time (eternity), and a cause (God) [Kant, by PG]
28. God / B. Proving God / 3. Proofs of Evidence / a. Cosmological Proof
21258 The only possible beginning for the endless motions of reality is something self-generated [Plato]
5598 If you prove God cosmologically, by a regress in the sequences of causes, you can't abandon causes at the end [Kant]
6205 To know if this world must have been created by God, we would need to know all other possible worlds [Kant]
21257 Self-generating motion is clearly superior to all other kinds of motion [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 / B. Proving God / 3. Proofs of Evidence / c. Teleological Proof critique
6204 Using God to explain nature is referring to something inconceivable to explain what is in front of you [Kant]
6206 From our limited knowledge we can infer great virtues in God, but not ultimate ones [Kant]
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
6202 In all naturalistic concepts of God, if you remove the human qualities there is nothing left [Kant]
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]