Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Chrysippus, Socrates and Boethius

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28. God / A. Divine Nature / 3. Divine Perfections
3048 Stoics say that God the creator is the perfection of all animals [Chrysippus, by Diog. Laertius]
28. God / A. Divine Nature / 5. God and Time
16692 Divine eternity is the all-at-once and complete possession of unending life [Boethius]
28. God / A. Divine Nature / 6. Divine Morality / a. Divine morality
20773 The origin of justice can only be in Zeus, and in nature [Chrysippus]
5752 Where does evil come from if there is a god; where does good come from if there isn't? [Boethius]
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]
5757 God is the supreme good, so no source of goodness could take precedence over God [Boethius]
5758 God is the good [Boethius]
28. God / A. Divine Nature / 6. Divine Morality / d. God decrees morality
3042 Stoics teach that law is identical with right reason, which is the will of Zeus [Chrysippus, by Diog. Laertius]
5965 The source of all justice is Zeus and the universal nature [Chrysippus]
28. God / B. Proving God / 3. Proofs of Evidence / a. Cosmological Proof
5760 The power through which creation remains in existence and motion I call 'God' [Boethius]
28. God / B. Proving God / 3. Proofs of Evidence / b. Teleological Proof
5753 The regular events of this life could never be due to chance [Boethius]
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]