Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Stilpo, Christian Wolff and Francis Hutcheson

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28. God / A. Divine Nature / 6. Divine Morality / a. Divine morality

6254	We are asked to follow God's ends because he is our benefactor, but why must we do that? [Hutcheson]

6255	Why may God not have a superior moral sense very similar to ours? [Hutcheson]

28. God / A. Divine Nature / 6. Divine Morality / b. Euthyphro question

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Confucius shows that ethics can rest on reason, rather than on revelation [Wolff, by Korsgaard]

28. God / A. Divine Nature / 6. Divine Morality / c. God is the good

6250	We say God is good if we think everything he does aims at the happiness of his creatures [Hutcheson]

28. God / A. Divine Nature / 6. Divine Morality / d. God decrees morality

6249	If goodness is constituted by God's will, it is a tautology to say God's will is good [Hutcheson]

28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 5. Atheism

3029	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]