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Single Idea 8141
[filed under theme 28. God / A. Divine Nature / 6. Divine Morality / c. God is the good
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Full Idea
He that doeth evil hath not seen God.
Gist of Idea
He that does evil has not seen God
Source
St John (25: Third Epistle of John [c.90], 11)
Book Ref
Cooper,David E.: 'Heidegger' [Claridge 1996], p.592
A Reaction
This gives God a role striking similar to Plato's Form of the Good. Plato thought the Good was prior to the gods, but he gives the good a quasi-religious role. I say we would only be inspired by the sight of God if we already had a moral sense.
The
14 ideas
with the same theme
[view of morality as identical with God]:
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1662
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A new concept of God as unswerving goodness emerges from Socrates' commitment to virtue
[Vlastos on Socrates]
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2058
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God must be the epitome of goodness, and we can only approach a divine state by being as good as possible
[Plato]
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6291
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No one is good except God
[Jesus]
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8141
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He that does evil has not seen God
[John]
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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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4825
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To say that God promotes what is good is false, as it sets up a goal beyond God
[Spinoza]
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6250
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We say God is good if we think everything he does aims at the happiness of his creatures
[Hutcheson]
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8105
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We can't exactly conceive virtue without the idea of God
[Joubert]
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23816
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Attention to a transcendent reality motivates a duty to foster the good of humanity
[Weil]
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23754
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The only choice is between supernatural good, or evil
[Weil]
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22345
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Moral philosophy needs a central concept with all the traditional attributes of God
[Murdoch]
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20702
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The goodness of God may be a higher form than the goodness of moral agents
[Davies,B]
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