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Single Idea 622

[filed under theme 28. God / A. Divine Nature / 2. Divine Nature ]

Full Idea

There exists an eternal unmoved substance separate from sensible things. It can have no magnitude, and is without parts and indivisible. As the source of movement for infinite time, it must itself be infinite.

Gist of Idea

There must a source of movement which is eternal, indivisible and without magnitude

Source

Aristotle (Metaphysics [c.324 BCE], 1073a05)

Book Ref

Aristotle: 'Metaphysics', ed/tr. Lawson-Tancred,Hugh [Penguin 1998], p.375

The 41 ideas with the same theme [characteristics of a supreme being]:

3055 Xenophanes said the essence of God was spherical and utterly inhuman [Xenophanes, by Diog. Laertius]
461 God is a pure, solitary, and eternal sphere [Empedocles]
466 God is pure mind permeating the universe [Empedocles]
13783 Even the gods love play [Plato]
279 Only divine things can always stay the same, and bodies are not like that [Plato]
622 There must a source of movement which is eternal, indivisible and without magnitude [Aristotle]
5119 The source of all movement must be indivisible and have no magnitude [Aristotle]
2836 God is not blessed and happy because of external goods, but because of his own nature [Aristotle]
2637 For Epicureans gods are made of atoms, and are not eternal [Epicurus, by Cicero]
7815 Early Stoics called the logos 'god', meaning not a being, but the principle of the universe [Stoic school]
23341 God created humans as spectators and interpreters of God's works [Epictetus]
22730 All men agree that God is blessed, imperishable, happy and good [Sext.Empiricus]
22739 God must suffer to understand suffering [Sext.Empiricus]
1891 How can we agree on the concept of God, unless we agree on his substance or form or place? [Sext.Empiricus]
18460 God is nowhere, and hence everywhere [Porphyry]
6811 Allah is lord of creation, compassionate, merciful, king of judgement-day [Mohammed]
20696 We can approach knowledge of God by negative attributes [Maimonides]
22123 The concept of God is the unique first efficient cause, final cause, and most eminent being [Duns Scotus, by Dumont]
2269 God the creator is an intelligent, infinite, powerful substance [Descartes]
2289 Nothing apart from God could have essential existence, and such a being must be unique and eternal [Descartes]
4314 God is wholly without passions, and strictly speaking does not love anyone [Spinoza, by Cottingham]
12928 Spinoza's God is just power and necessity, without perfection or wisdom [Leibniz on Spinoza]
7571 Spinoza's God is not a person [Spinoza, by Jolley]
7609 God is the sum and principle of all eternal laws [Spinoza, by Armstrong,K]
17172 God is a substance with infinite attributes [Spinoza]
4823 God does not act according to the freedom of the will [Spinoza]
21859 God has no purpose, because God lacks nothing [Spinoza]
19435 God is not loveable for producing without choice and by necessity; God is loveable for his goodness [Leibniz on Spinoza]
17231 God feels no emotions, of joy or sorrow [Spinoza]
12954 God's essence is the source of possibilities, and his will the source of existents [Leibniz]
19326 God must be intelligible, to select the actual world from the possibilities [Leibniz]
19439 God produces possibilities, and thus ideas [Leibniz]
7666 God is not a mathematician, but a poet [Hamann, by Berlin]
15618 If God is the abstract of Supremely Real Essence, then God is a mere Beyond, and unknowable [Hegel]
15635 The older conception of God was emptied of human features, to make it worthy of the Infinite [Hegel]
21980 God is the absolute thing, and also the absolute person [Hegel]
7586 God does not think or exist; God creates, and is eternal [Kierkegaard]
13465 Only God is absolutely infinite [Cantor, by Hart,WD]
7192 Remove goodness and wisdom from our concept of God. Being the highest power is enough! [Nietzsche]
18292 I can only believe in a God who can dance [Nietzsche]
22879 'God' is an imaginative unity of ideal values [Dewey]