Plato Contra Atheos: Plato Against the AtheistsHarper & brothers, 1845 - 378 pages |
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... Deity . Whether on this View God must have created Worlds from Eternity . - Aristotle's Misrepresentations of Plato on this Point . His own Doc- trine . Aristotle's Immoveable Essence . - Moral Reasons the first of Moving Causes XXVII ...
... Deity . Whether on this View God must have created Worlds from Eternity . - Aristotle's Misrepresentations of Plato on this Point . His own Doc- trine . Aristotle's Immoveable Essence . - Moral Reasons the first of Moving Causes XXVII ...
Page xxi
... Deity was easily propitiated , or would not punish sin severely . The first part is introduced by a declaration of Clini- as , that it must be easy to prove the existence of the Deity . He appeals at once to the most obvious phenomena ...
... Deity was easily propitiated , or would not punish sin severely . The first part is introduced by a declaration of Clini- as , that it must be easy to prove the existence of the Deity . He appeals at once to the most obvious phenomena ...
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... Deity is to be regarded as inferior in wisdom to human art- ists ( 56 ) . The method of this special providence is shown to be by such arrangements in the sovereignty of God ( but not by any inhe- rent necessity of things ) , that every ...
... Deity is to be regarded as inferior in wisdom to human art- ists ( 56 ) . The method of this special providence is shown to be by such arrangements in the sovereignty of God ( but not by any inhe- rent necessity of things ) , that every ...
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... Deity , especially before profane and ungodly men . 2. προοίμιον . See Note II . , App . 3. τὰ μὲν ἀποδείξαιμεν , κ . τ . λ . , “ Should in some things demonstrate by arguments , & c . — τὰ δὲ , εἰς φόβον τρέψαιμεν , should in others ...
... Deity , especially before profane and ungodly men . 2. προοίμιον . See Note II . , App . 3. τὰ μὲν ἀποδείξαιμεν , κ . τ . λ . , “ Should in some things demonstrate by arguments , & c . — τὰ δὲ , εἰς φόβον τρέψαιμεν , should in others ...
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... Deity and Divinity the highest sense of an uncreated intelligence . In the Greek usage , as we have seen , the word includes all above man , and Plato even applies it to the δαίμονες . 3. ΚΛ . Ναί , τόν γέ που μὴ . Whatever excellences ...
... Deity and Divinity the highest sense of an uncreated intelligence . In the Greek usage , as we have seen , the word includes all above man , and Plato even applies it to the δαίμονες . 3. ΚΛ . Ναί , τόν γέ που μὴ . Whatever excellences ...
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