Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Stilpo, Blaise Pascal and Epicurus
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28. God / A. Divine Nature / 2. Divine Nature
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For Epicureans gods are made of atoms, and are not eternal [Epicurus, by Cicero]
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28. God / B. Proving God / 2. Proofs of Reason / a. Ontological Proof
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Epicurus saw that gods must exist, because nature has imprinted them on human minds [Epicurus, by Cicero]
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28. God / B. Proving God / 2. Proofs of Reason / d. Pascal's Wager
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Pascal knows you can't force belief, but you can make it much more probable [Pascal, by Hacking]
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Pascal is right, but relies on the unsupported claim of a half as the chance of God's existence [Hacking on Pascal]
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The libertine would lose a life of enjoyable sin if he chose the cloisters [Hacking on Pascal]
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If you win the wager on God's existence you win everything, if you lose you lose nothing [Pascal]
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28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 3. Deism
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God does not intervene in heavenly movements, but is beyond all action and perfectly happy [Epicurus]
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28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 5. Atheism
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Stilpo said if Athena is a daughter of Zeus, then a statue is only the child of a sculptor, and so is not a god [Stilpo, by Diog. Laertius]
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Some say Epicurus only pretended to believe in the gods, so as not to offend Athenians [Epicurus, by Cicero]
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