An edition of The God question
(2009)
The God question
what famous thinkers from Plato to Dawkins have said about the divine
by Andrew Pessin
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The God question: what famous thinkers from Plato to Dawkins have said about the divine
2009, Oneworld
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Plato (427-347 B.C.E.): The divine craftsman ; Do the right thing
whatever that means
Aristotle (382-322 B.C.E.): The unmoved mover
Cicero (106-43 B.C.E.): The cost of freedom
Augustine (354-430 C.E.): The prognosticator ; In the beginning was the beginning ; On seeing the light
Boethius (480-524): The voyeur
Saadia (882-942): What a long strange trip it hasn't been ; Two ways of being one
Avicenna (980-1037): God exists because you don't have to ; The eternal emanator
Anselm (1033-1109): I deny God exists, therefore he exists
Ghazali (1058-1111): The all-powerful arsonist
Averroes (1126-98): Knowledge is power ; They can't handle the truth
Maimonides (1135-1204): Not that many are called ; Speaking of God ... ; And behold, it still is pretty good
Thomas Aquinas (1225-74): What could be simpler than an infinitely powerful, infinitely intelligent, infinitely good, infinite being? ; Many true and distinct things about God ; Could God create a stone so heavy he couldn't lift it? ; God has not been on vacation since the original creation
John Duns Scotus (1270-1308): Unchangeably changeable
Durandus of Saint-Pourçain (c. 1275-1332): That voodoo you do do so well
William of Ockham (c. 1287-1347): Sinning without sinning ; It ain't over till it's over
Martin Luther (1483-1546): The devil's advocate
Luis de Molina (1535-1600): What would Jesus do ...
Francisco Suárez (1548-1617): Miracles by omission
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642): Appearances may be deceiving
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679): Miracles are no miracle
René Descartes (1596-1650): The thing that exists, exists ; The infinite being is not just a good idea ; God's got it going on ; Between the merely inconceivable and the impossible
Blaise Pascal (1623-62): You bet your life
Baruch Spinoza (1632-77): You, me, that horse, the heavens ; The deity made me do it
Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715): I made the deity do it ; Honoring God, not his vegetables ; The laws of nature did it
G.W. Leibniz (1646-1716): The best of all possible worlds ; I need a miracle every day ; The harmonizer
Pierre Bayle (1647-1706): A stange, and literally incredible, "truth"
George Berkeley (1685-1753): What you see is what you get ; Deceptively, the non-deceiver
Voltaire (1694-1778): At best not the worst of all possible worlds
William Paley (1743-1805): The cosmic watchmaker
David Hume (1711-76): If the world is your premise ; Keeps going, and going, and going ...
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804): A pretty big IF ; You ought to believe in God
G.W.F. Hegel (1770-1831): The autobiographer
Ludwig Feuerbach (1804-72): To be human is divine
Charles Darwin (1809-82): The blind eyemaker
Karl Marx (1818-83): The opium of the people
Sören Kierkegaard (1813-55): Nothing impersonal
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900): Requiem for a deity
William James (1842-1910): Putting into words what goes without saying
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939): Having daddy for dinner
Rudolf Otto (1869-1937): The tremendous mystery
Martin Buber (1878-1965): The ménage à trois
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970): Damned if you do
Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947): A work in process
Alfred Jules Ayer (1910-89): The divine huppity hoo-ha
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951): Grounding the grounds
Charles Hartshorne (1897-2000): Everywhere at once
C.S. Lewis (1898-1963): The law-breaker
Martin Heidegger (1889-1976): The supremely good immutably unmoved first fruit
Norman Malcolm (1911-90): If it's even possible then it's actual
Karl Rahner (1904-84): Anonymous Christians
Harry Frankfurt (b. 1929): To dream the impossible dream, to lift the unliftable stone
Norman Kretzmann (1928-98): The unchanging know-it-all is neither
Nelson Pike (b. 1930): The almighty sandal-maker
Robert M. Adams (b. 1937): God could have done better, and maybe even worse
Eleonore Stump (b. 1947): May God grant us the serenity to accept what cannot be changed
namely everything
Alvin Plantinga (b. 1932): Reasonable without reasons
Hans Jonas (1903-93): God after Auschwitz
George Mavrodes (b. 1926): If there is no God then everything is permitted
William Alston (b. 1921): Perceiving God
John Hick (b. 1922): The one behind the many
Marilyn McCord Adams (b. 1943): When even the best of all possible worlds isn't good enough for you
Paul Davies (b. 1946): Chances are the world is not by chance
Richard Swinburne (b. 1934): All-knowing without knowing everything
Michael Behe (b. 1952): Return of the intelligent designer
Sarah Coakley (b. 1951): The God-dess
Daniel Dennett (b. 1942): Thou shalt stand on thine own two legs
Richard Dawkins (b. 1941): The ultimate Boeing 747
Concluding remarks: ending in the middle.
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