Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Democritus, Socrates and Wesley Salmon

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28. God / A. Divine Nature / 6. Divine Morality / b. Euthyphro question
1657 Socrates holds that right reason entails virtue, and this must also apply to the gods [Vlastos on Socrates]
28. God / A. Divine Nature / 6. Divine Morality / c. God is the good
1662 A new concept of God as unswerving goodness emerges from Socrates' commitment to virtue [Vlastos on Socrates]
28. God / B. Proving God / 3. Proofs of Evidence / c. Teleological Proof critique
1535 Democritus said people imagined gods as the source of what awed or frightened them [Democritus, by Sext.Empiricus]
28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 5. Atheism
338 Socrates is accused of denying the gods, saying sun is stone and moon is earth [Socrates, by Plato]