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Single Idea 9115
[filed under theme 29. Religion / B. Monotheistic Religion / 4. Christianity / a. Christianity
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Full Idea
To love God above all means to love whatever God wills to be loved.
Gist of Idea
To love God means to love whatever God wills to be loved
Source
William of Ockham (Seven Quodlibets [1332], III Q xiii)
Book Ref
Ockham,William of: 'Ockham's Philosophical Writings', ed/tr. Boehner,P [Hackett 1990], p.147
A Reaction
A striking thought, which could be meaningful to the non-religious. Is it possible to form an image of what a perfect and ideal mind would love most? This might generate a set of universal values. It is tricky to find out what an actual God loves.
The
36 ideas
from William of Ockham
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9090
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Knowledge is certain cognition of something that is true
[William of Ockham]
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9089
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Knowledge is a quality existing subjectively in the soul
[William of Ockham]
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9091
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Sometimes 'knowledge' just concerns the conclusion, sometimes the whole demonstration
[William of Ockham]
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16792
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If parts change, the whole changes
[William of Ockham]
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9103
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A universal is not a real feature of objects, but only a thought-object in the mind
[William of Ockham]
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9104
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A universal is the result of abstraction, which is only a kind of mental picturing
[William of Ockham]
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16654
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Our words and concepts don't always correspond to what is out there
[William of Ockham]
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9101
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Abstractive cognition knows universals abstracted from many singulars
[William of Ockham]
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9100
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Our intellect only assents to what we believe to be true
[William of Ockham]
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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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9112
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We could never form a concept of God's wisdom if we couldn't abstract it from creatures
[William of Ockham]
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9114
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There are no secure foundations to prove the separate existence of mind, in reason or experience
[William of Ockham]
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9102
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If an animal approached from a distance, we might abstract 'animal' from one instance
[William of Ockham]
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9115
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To love God means to love whatever God wills to be loved
[William of Ockham]
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16757
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Hot water naturally cools down, which is due to the substantial form of the water
[William of Ockham]
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16779
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Cut wood doesn't make a new substance, but seems to make separate subjects
[William of Ockham]
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18529
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Relations are expressed either as absolute facts, or by a relational concept
[William of Ockham]
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16599
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Ockham says matter must be extended, so we don't need Quantity
[William of Ockham, by Pasnau]
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16608
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Ockham was an anti-realist about the categories
[William of Ockham, by Pasnau]
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16681
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Matter gets its quantity from condensation and rarefaction, which is just local motion
[William of Ockham]
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15388
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Universals are single things, and only universal in what they signify
[William of Ockham]
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16300
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Ockham had an early axiomatic account of truth
[William of Ockham, by Halbach]
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9105
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Some concepts for propositions exist only in the mind, and in no language
[William of Ockham]
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9106
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The word 'every' only signifies when added to a term such as 'man', referring to all men
[William of Ockham]
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9113
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Just as unity is not a property of a single thing, so numbers are not properties of many things
[William of Ockham]
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9107
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A proposition is true if its subject and predicate stand for the same thing
[William of Ockham]
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9110
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The words 'thing' and 'to be' assert the same idea, as a noun and as a verb
[William of Ockham]
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9109
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If essence and existence were two things, one could exist without the other, which is impossible
[William of Ockham]
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9108
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From an impossibility anything follows
[William of Ockham]
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16675
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Every extended material substance is composed of parts distant from one another
[William of Ockham]
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16676
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Why use more things when fewer will do?
[William of Ockham]
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6806
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Do not multiply entities beyond necessity
[William of Ockham]
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22132
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Species and genera are individual concepts which naturally signify many individuals
[William of Ockham]
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16679
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Even an angel must have some location
[William of Ockham, by Pasnau]
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8010
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William of Ockham is the main spokesman for God's commands being the source of morality
[William of Ockham]
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19381
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The past has ceased to exist, and the future does not yet exist, so time does not exist
[William of Ockham]
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