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'Thinking About Mathematics', 'The Confessions' and 'Against the Physicists (two books)'
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28. God / A. Divine Nature / 2. Divine Nature
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God must suffer to understand suffering [Sext.Empiricus]
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All men agree that God is blessed, imperishable, happy and good [Sext.Empiricus]
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28. God / A. Divine Nature / 3. Divine Perfections
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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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28. God / B. Proving God / 1. Proof of God
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God is defended by agreement, order, absurdity of denying God, and refutations [Sext.Empiricus]
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28. God / B. Proving God / 2. Proofs of Reason / b. Ontological Proof critique
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God's sensations imply change, and hence perishing, which is absurd, so there is no such God [Sext.Empiricus]
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God without virtue is absurd, but God's virtues will be better than God [Sext.Empiricus]
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28. God / B. Proving God / 3. Proofs of Evidence / b. Teleological Proof
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The original substance lacked motion or shape, and was given these by a cause [Sext.Empiricus]
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28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 4. God Reflects Humanity
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The perfections of God were extrapolations from mankind [Sext.Empiricus]
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28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 5. Atheism
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Gods were invented as watchers of people's secret actions [Sext.Empiricus]
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An incorporeal God could do nothing, and a bodily god would perish, so there is no God [Sext.Empiricus]
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