Apollodorus

However, according to Plato, the source of all goodness and all morality is the Good, i.e., a higher, divine source. So, it looks like you are contrad...

I think you're growing more and more irrational. If "Socrates doesn't know", how can you use Socrates' statements to prove anything?

And that "proves" what exactly?

Nonsense. There is no logical connection between your premise and your conclusion. Plus, 1. "Not sufficient" can mean "partly sufficient". 2. If you a...

People are different and are pious for different motives. This is precisely why @Fooloso4 has failed to prove his point and will never succeed even in...

I think you're confusing yourself because you aren't following the thread and you don't understand that the discussion is about Ancient Greece, not Fr...

Everything must be tempered. That's why humans have a reasoning faculty and an innate, divine sense of what is right and what is wrong. And that means...

What I meant was that the practice of writing down laws said to have been given by God goes back to Hammurabi (1792 - 1750 BC ) and before: “Hammurabi...

He neither understands nor does he want to because he's got another agenda which is to use Socrates to ridicule religion in general and Abrahamic reli...

It is clear that, as usual, you are not reading your own statements. You wrote: Your statement does not dispute the validity of the equation. It only ...

As you correctly pointed out and as @Fooloso4 was forced to admit, "pious" = "loved by the Gods". So, let's have another look at the so-called problem...

Nature is not only amazingly complex but also amazingly well ordered. This implies purpose and design which suggests an intelligent designer. The alte...

I'm not saying you're wrong, only that the materialists will come up with new questions, arguments and "contradictions", given that this is their purp...

Unfortunately, the materialists will claim that the Gods love the pious man because he is pious which in their view demonstrates that you can be pious...

And some may have no interest in playing when they perceive the agenda behind the game. At any rate, if we take "justice" to mean treating people as t...

If you say so.

The mind sees both unity and diversity, subject and object, in order to rationally analyze reality, in the same way it sees changelessness in order to...

If Justice is taken to be a Goddess (Dike), then in following justice we are doing what is commanded by Justice. Likewise, if the Good is taken to be ...

Not that difficult. The way I see it, the same human mind machine operating by a process of division also has the capacity to see unity in diversity. ...

If God is taken to be omnipotent, then he would probably find ways of making himself known to mankind.

Correct. Some passages or concepts may be taken literally, whilst others are to be interpreted allegorically. Jesus himself spoke in parables for this...

In that case, it wouldn't be bad to start with a definition of "reality" or "reality as single thing" and then look into how it relates to intelligenc...

I can only see two options, either (1) we use a redefined term to include the meaning we want it to have, or (2) we coin a new word. By the way, you'r...

True. But lack of success by democratic means may lead to greater radicalization and authoritarianism. The Left may use right-wing authoritarianism to...

I would ask "authoritarian" in what sense? More in the direction of a benevolent dictatorship or communism/fascism?

I don't see any problem with the word "intelligence" as long as it is adequately defined. It may be said that intelligence is the power to grasp or be...

The basic idea is that God is omnipotent from where it may be inferred that he is omniscient. However, God doesn't need to be omnibenevolent. The conc...

Maybe you can tell me where the "ad hominem" is, because I don't see any?

Fooloso4 started it at the instigation of Banno. So maybe he knows

And that would mean that the universe is intelligent and consists of various forms and degrees of intelligence. As proposed by Platonism and other mon...

I don't know what the question is but I'm sure Karl Marx has all the answers. Or so they say ....

That seems to be a reasonable statement. Lots of things happen to us without our being aware of the causes. What if God tells us what is right and wro...

I don't see why this can't be the case. Possibly difficult to prove but perfectly conceivable. By the way, how many phenomena are there in bouncing a ...

Fair enough. However, theoretically, at least, it is not entirely inconceivable that God has told some people what constitutes right conduct in the pa...

There are many historical examples of people claiming to have been told by God what to do. Prophet Mohammad was one of them. But it goes back to Hammu...

That's what I meant. You won't stop him just like you can't stop the wind ....

He is an inspired fellow. You know what "Anand" and "Haqq" means, don't you?

So, you are using your personal lack of remembrance as an argument for the non-occurence of an event witnessed by others?

Have you demonstrated that this is not the case? I don't think you have.

Maybe that’s the job of really, really likable girls, to create nightmares for (seemingly heterosexual) guys. Consciousness seems to present a similar...

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I don't think it's irrelevant at all. You yourself said it was relevant: After which you said: 1. Questions don't inform, answers do. 2. If "those arg...

It wasn't mysterious before, but I think it is beginning to become mysterious now. A question can't inform you. An answer can.

But you just said that discussion of God does not require belief in God. Indeed, you yourself seem to be discussing God without actually believing in ...

OK. I was just curious. I thought you may have felt it was relevant for some reason. It's good to know that it wasn't.

So, what you are saying is that your question was unnecessary.

Sure to both of those claims, Well, if you agree that there is no logical requirement to believe in a "God that is omnipotent, omnibenevolent, omnisci...

1. There is no logical requirement to believe in a "God that is omnipotent, omnibenevolent, omniscient, and omnipresent... the creator of all things" ...

It may be a reference to that BLM leader who wants to replace men with women, whites with blacks, and capitalism with communism. In which case our God...

I think that's a good point which illustrates the fact that it's all a matter of perspective. That's why on one view God can be omnipotent and omniben...