Questions tagged [monotheism]
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Who is Plato and Socrates' God?
I'm reading the Phaedo, as translated by Benjamin Jowett. The characters alternately mention "God" (As a monotheist would spell it with a capital "G"), for example, at one point, Socrates says:
Then there may be reason in saying that a man should…
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Is the God of a monotheism necessarily omnipotent?
I was reading the SEP entry about the problem of evil, and there it says that What properties must something have if it is to be an appropriate object of worship, and if it is to provide reason for thinking that there is a reasonable chance that the…
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Why did Hartshorne believe in God?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Hartshorne
https://www.iep.utm.edu/hart-t-a/
Donald Wayne Viney and George W. Shields wrote that Charles Hartshorne denied justifying his own faith upon Anselm’s ontological argument.
Did Hartshorne ever…
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Is Aristotle a monotheist?
Is Aristotle a monotheist?
It would seem so because
in Book 8 of Aristotle's Physics he proves the existence of a single Primary Mover or Unmoved Mover.
of his views on truth and contradiction, viz., that he believes in the law of…
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What was Spinoza's take on miracles: what are they are why think they do occur?
What was Spinoza's take on miracles: what are they are why think they do occur? I'm asking because I want to find out and this could, conceivably, be the easiest way. I've read a chapter or two of something by him, and backed off because it seemed…
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What do you think about this argument against classical theism?
someone formulated this argument:
Iff there's space, then God is omnipresent.
Iff there's universe, then there's space.
There was a state of affairs when there's no universe (There was a state of affairs in which God existed with no universe.…
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Was the ancient Jewish concept of God utterly unique?
I hope it's ok to post this on Philosophy S.A. It's really a question of the philosophical view of God.
Was the ancient Jewish (Abrahamic/Mosaic) view of 1 "true" god, faceless, formless, nameless, and at least in some ideology, not just above all…
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Where does Marsilio Ficino write that all nations refer to God with a four-letter name?
I have seen quoted in the name of Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499), also spelled Marcellus Ficin, that all nations of the world worship a God whose name is spelled with four letters. Does anybody know where this might occur in Ficino's writings and if…
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Non-theism is neither Theism nor Atheism?
Here is my understanding of the subject
Theism
Theism is broadly defined as the belief in the existence of a Supreme Being or deities.
Theism
Non theism
Nontheism has generally been used to describe apathy or silence towards the subject of God…
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