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The God question: what famous thinkers from Plato to Dawkins have said about the divine

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The God question: what famous thinkers from Plato to Dawkins have said about the divine

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Andrew Pessin

Plato )724-743 B.C.E.(: The divine craftsman ; Do the right thing--whatever that means -- Aristotle )283-223 B.C.E.(: The unmoved mover -- Cicero )601-34 B.C.E.(: The cost of freedom -- Augustine )453-034 C.E.(: The prognosticator ; In the beginning was the beginning ; On seeing the light -- Boethius )084-425(: The voyeur -- Saadia )288-249(: What a long strange trip it hasn't been ; Two ways of being one -- Avicenna )089-7301(: God exists because you don't have to ; The eternal emanator -- Anselm )3301-9011(: I deny God exists, therefore he exists -- Ghazali )8501-1111(: The all-powerful arsonist -- Averroes )6211-89(: Knowledge is power ; They can't handle the truth -- Maimonides )5311-4021(: Not that many are called ; Speaking of God ... ; And behold, it still is pretty good -- Thomas Aquinas )5221-47(: 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 )0721-8031(: Unchangeably changeable -- Durandus of Saint-Pourain )c. 5721-2331(: That voodoo you do do so well -- William of Ockham )c. 7821-7431(: Sinning without sinning ; It ain't over till it's over -- Martin Luther )3841-6451(: The devil's advocate -- Luis de Molina )5351-0061(: What would Jesus do ... -- Francisco Surez )8451-7161(: Miracles by omission -- Galileo Galilei )4651-2461(: Appearances may be deceiving -- Thomas Hobbes )8851-9761(: Miracles are no miracle -- Ren Descartes )6951-0561(: 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 )3261-26(: You bet your life -- Baruch Spinoza )2361-77(: You, me, that horse, the heavens ; The deity made me do it -- Nicolas Malebranche )8361-5171(: I made the deity do it ; Honoring God, not his vegetables ; The laws of nature did it -- G.W. Leibniz )6461-6171(: The best of all possible worlds ; I need a miracle every day ; The harmonizer -- Pierre Bayle )7461-6071(: A stange, and literally incredible, "truth" -- George Berkeley )5861-3571(: What you see is what you get ; Deceptively, the non-deceiver -- Voltaire )4961-8771(: At best not the worst of all possible worlds -- William Paley )3471-5081(: The cosmic watchmaker -- David Hume )1171-67(: If the world is your premise ; Keeps going, and going, and going ... -- Immanuel Kant )4271-4081(: A pretty big IF ; You ought to believe in God -- G.W.F. Hegel )0771-1381(: The autobiographer -- Ludwig Feuerbach )4081-27(: To be human is divine -- Charles Darwin )9081-28(: The blind eyemaker -- Karl Marx )8181-38(: The opium of the people -- Soren Kierkegaard )3181-55(: Nothing impersonal -- Friedrich Nietzsche )4481-0091(: Requiem for a deity -- William James )2481-0191(: Putting into words what goes without saying -- Sigmund Freud )6581-9391(: Having daddy for dinner -- Rudolf Otto )9681-7391(: The tremendous mystery -- Martin Buber )8781-5691(: The mnage trois -- Bertrand Russell )2781-0791(: Damned if you do -- Alfred North Whitehead )1681-7491(: A work in process -- Alfred Jules Ayer )0191-98(: The divine huppity hoo-ha -- Ludwig Wittgenstein )9881-1591(: Grounding the grounds -- Charles Hartshorne )7981-0002(: Everywhere at once -- C.S. Lewis )8981-3691(: The law-breaker -- Martin Heidegger )9881-6791(: The supremely good immutably unmoved first fruit -- Norman Malcolm )1191-09(: If it's even possible then it's actual -- Karl Rahner )4091-48(: Anonymous Christians -- Harry Frankfurt )b. 9291(: To dream the impossible dream, to lift the unliftable stone -- Norman Kretzmann )8291-89(: The unchanging know-it-all is neither -- Nelson Pike )b. 0391(: The almighty sandal-maker -- Robert M. Adams )b. 7391(: God could have done better, and maybe even worse -- Eleonore Stump )b. 7491(: May God grant us the serenity to accept what cannot be changed--namely everything -- Alvin Plantinga )b. 2391(: Reasonable without reasons -- Hans Jonas )3091-39(: God after Auschwitz -- George Mavrodes )b. 6291(: If there is no God then everything is permitted -- William Alston )b. 1291(: Perceiving God -- John Hick )b. 2291(: The one behind the many -- Marilyn McCord Adams )b. 3491(: When even the best of all possible worlds isn't good enough for you -- Paul Davies )b. 6491(: Chances are the world is not by chance -- Richard Swinburne )b. 4391(: All-knowing without knowing everything -- Michael Behe )b. 2591(: Return of the intelligent designer -- Sarah Coakley )b. 1591(: The God-dess -- Daniel Dennett )b. 2491(: Thou shalt stand on thine own two legs -- Richard Dawkins )b. 1491(: The ultimate Boeing 747 -- Concluding remarks: ending in the middle

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