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Single Idea 2631

[filed under theme 28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 2. Pantheism ]

Full Idea

Antisthenes says there is only one god, which is nature.

Gist of Idea

Antisthenes says there is only one god, which is nature

Source

report of Antisthenes (Ath) (fragments/reports [c.405 BCE]) by M. Tullius Cicero - On the Nature of the Gods ('De natura deorum') I.32

Book Ref

Cicero: 'The Nature of the Gods', ed/tr. McGregor,Horace [Penguin 1972], p.83


The 5 ideas from 'fragments/reports'

Contradiction is impossible [Antisthenes (I), by Aristotle]
Some fools think you cannot define anything, but only say what it is like [Antisthenes (I), by Aristotle]
I would rather go mad than experience pleasure [Antisthenes (I)]
Antisthenes said virtue is teachable and permanent, is life's goal, and is like universal wealth [Antisthenes (I), by Long]
Antisthenes says there is only one god, which is nature [Antisthenes (I), by Cicero]