The nature of God Flashcards
Give eight traditional Christian philosophical definitions of God
Simple/ Eternal/ Omniscient/ Omnipotent/ Omni-benevolent/ creator/ transcendent
Who was Plato
lived around 427bc-347bc in Athens/ Greek Philiopsher
Summarise the analogy of the cave in 7 words
Cave Prisoners Fire artificial shadows daylight sun
What are Plato’s three forms
Form of God (ultimate reality)
The Forms (heavenly world)
The visible/ material (our world)
What did Plato suggest about a being, what this being was called, why did Plato bring forward the analogy of the cave?
He suggested a perfect vbeing that existed beyond all other ordinary beings/ this being should be called ‘Form of the Good’/ to explain the hierartcjhy
What do the prisoners represent in the analogy of the cave?
People/ us
What does the cave represent in the analogy of the cave?
Our world
What do the shadows represent in the analogy of the cave?
the imitations we see of the form of god
What does the sun represent in the analogy of the cave?
the form of the Good/ it is the source of all things
When do you have true enlightenment?
When you have full awareness of the form of good
What did Aristotle observe?
Everything that exists was in a permanent state of movement or change
What did he conclude from this observation?
Something must exist that causes the motion and change without being moved/ this concept is eternal
What does empirical mean?
It was based on evidence that we can study
What did Aristotle suggest about a being supreme being?
It is perfect/ was referred to as the unmoved mover/ it is the cause of all movement/ and change/ it was through desire to reach the perfection of this being that movement was caused/ all materbnal things were drawn towards the unmoved mover
What did Aristotle believe was our final cause?
The unmoved mover
