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Single Idea 16661
[filed under theme 7. Existence / E. Categories / 1. Categories
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Full Idea
Is it not now clear what the difference is between items in the categories? Some serve to refer to a thing, whereas others serve to refer to the circumstances of a thing.
Gist of Idea
There are two sorts of category - referring to things, and to circumstances of things
Source
Boethius (Concerning the Trinity [c.518], Ch. 4), quoted by Robert Pasnau - Metaphysical Themes 1274-1671 12.5
Book Ref
Pasnau,Robert: 'Metaphysical Themes 1274-1671' [OUP 2011], p.242
The
24 ideas
from Boethius
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15035
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If universals are not separate, we can isolate them by abstraction
[Boethius, by Panaccio]
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23308
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Reasoning relates to understanding as time does to eternity
[Boethius, by Sorabji]
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5752
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Where does evil come from if there is a god; where does good come from if there isn't?
[Boethius]
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5753
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The regular events of this life could never be due to chance
[Boethius]
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5754
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You can't control someone's free mind, only their body and possessions
[Boethius]
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5756
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Happiness is a good which once obtained leaves nothing more to be desired
[Boethius]
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5757
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God is the supreme good, so no source of goodness could take precedence over God
[Boethius]
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5758
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God is the good
[Boethius]
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5759
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Varied aims cannot be good because they differ, but only become good when they unify
[Boethius]
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5760
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The power through which creation remains in existence and motion I call 'God'
[Boethius]
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5761
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God can do anything, but he cannot do evil, so evil must be nothing
[Boethius]
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5763
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The bad seek the good through desire, but the good through virtue, which is more natural
[Boethius]
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5762
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The wicked want goodness, so they would not be wicked if they obtained it
[Boethius]
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5764
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When people fall into wickedness they lose their human nature
[Boethius]
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5765
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The reward of the good is to become gods
[Boethius]
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5766
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If you could see the plan of Providence, you would not think there was evil anywhere
[Boethius]
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16692
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Divine eternity is the all-at-once and complete possession of unending life
[Boethius]
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5767
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Rational natures require free will, in order to have power of judgement
[Boethius]
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5768
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God's universal foreknowledge seems opposed to free will
[Boethius]
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5769
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Does foreknowledge cause necessity, or necessity cause foreknowledge?
[Boethius]
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5770
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Rewards and punishments are not deserved if they don't arise from free movement of the mind
[Boethius]
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5771
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Knowledge of present events doesn't make them necessary, so future events are no different
[Boethius]
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14665
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We can call the quality of Plato 'Platonity', and say it is a quality which only he possesses
[Boethius]
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16661
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There are two sorts of category - referring to things, and to circumstances of things
[Boethius]
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