Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Empedocles, Francis Hutcheson and Roy Sorensen
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28. God / A. Divine Nature / 2. Divine Nature
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God is a pure, solitary, and eternal sphere [Empedocles]
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God is pure mind permeating the universe [Empedocles]
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28. God / A. Divine Nature / 4. Divine Contradictions
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In Empedocles' theory God is ignorant because, unlike humans, he doesn't know one of the elements (strife) [Aristotle on Empedocles]
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God cannot experience unwanted pain, so God cannot understand human beings [Sorensen]
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28. God / A. Divine Nature / 6. Divine Morality / a. Divine morality
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We are asked to follow God's ends because he is our benefactor, but why must we do that? [Hutcheson]
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Why may God not have a superior moral sense very similar to ours? [Hutcheson]
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28. God / A. Divine Nature / 6. Divine Morality / c. God is the good
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We say God is good if we think everything he does aims at the happiness of his creatures [Hutcheson]
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28. God / A. Divine Nature / 6. Divine Morality / d. God decrees morality
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If goodness is constituted by God's will, it is a tautology to say God's will is good [Hutcheson]
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