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Single Idea 22738
[filed under theme 28. God / A. Divine Nature / 3. Divine Perfections
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Full Idea
If the Divine is all-virtuous, it possesses all the virtues. But it does not possess the virtues of continence and fortitude unless there are certain things which are hard for God to abstain from and hard to endure.
Gist of Idea
The Divine must lack the virtues of continence and fortitude, because they are not needed
Source
Sextus Empiricus (Against the Physicists (two books) [c.180], I.151)
Book Ref
Sextus Empiricus: 'Against the Physicists/Against the Ethicists', ed/tr. Bury,R.G. [Harvard Loeb 1997], p.81
A Reaction
Courage would also be unnecessary, we assume. Good people are not tempted to steal, and hence do not need to resist it. It is a mistake to attribute human virtues to the Divine. Humans lack the virtues of a good frog.
The
21 ideas
with the same theme
[existence of good qualities in their purest form]:
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22920
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Do I not fill heaven and earth? saith the Lord
[Jeremiah]
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439
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God knows everything, and nothing is impossible for him
[Epicharmus]
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152
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The mind of God is fully satisfied and happy with a vision of reality and truth
[Plato]
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175
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Gods are not lovers of wisdom, because they are already wise
[Plato]
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3048
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Stoics say that God the creator is the perfection of all animals
[Chrysippus, by Diog. Laertius]
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22738
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The Divine must lack the virtues of continence and fortitude, because they are not needed
[Sext.Empiricus]
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19371
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Nine principles of God: goodness, greatness, eternity, power, wisdom, will, virtue, truth and glory
[Lull, by Arthur,R]
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1865
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It is heresy to teach that natural impossibilities cannot even be achieved by God
[Anon (Par)]
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9111
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God is not wise, but more-than-wise; God is not good, but more-than-good
[William of Ockham]
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2275
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It is self-evident that deception is a natural defect, so God could not be a deceiver
[Descartes]
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7829
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God no more has human perfections than we have animal perfections
[Spinoza]
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4866
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God is a being with infinite attributes, each of them infinite or perfect
[Spinoza]
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17025
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If a perfect being does not rule the cosmos, it is not God
[Newton]
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5041
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God does everything in a perfect way, and never acts contrary to reason
[Leibniz]
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2114
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This is the most perfect possible universe, in its combination of variety with order
[Leibniz]
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12988
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The universe contains everything possible for its perfect harmony
[Leibniz]
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1414
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A perfection is a simple quality, which is positive and absolute, and has no limit
[Leibniz]
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5048
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Perfection is simply quantity of reality
[Leibniz]
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19327
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The intelligent cause must be unique and all-perfect, to handle all the interconnected possibilities
[Leibniz]
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6959
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We can't assume God's perfections are like our ideas or like human attributes
[Hume]
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18980
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If there is a 'greatest knower', it doesn't follow that they know absolutely everything
[James]
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