This is an essay in comparative ethics within the Platonist tradition. Although the primary focus is on Augustine’s account of rightly ordered love of neighbor in De vera religione, it analyzes Augustine’s account of the love of finite goods by comparing it with Plato’s grounding of the love of imperfect creatures within an ontological hierarchy in Symposium. Against the backdrop of the critiqu...

While scholars of Leibniz’s thought are certainly familiar with his arguments for the existence of God, it has only recently become more widely known that the past century’s greatest logician, Kurt Gödel, also proposed an argument for the existence of God that bears striking similarities to Leibniz’s ontological arguments. In this paper, I shall sketch the arguments of Leibniz and Gödel, commen...

the subject of divine will is discussed in three views of imammieh, moatazeleh, and ashaereh scholars. in views of them, god has will, however, there are differences between their beliefs: is divine will a substance attribute or an attribute surplus to substance is divine will an ancient or created attribute is divine will an affirmative or privative attribute is divine will a real or unreal at...

The question of God’s relationship with creation touches upon important contemporary issues with regard to science, interfaith dialogue, and contemporary philosophy. Using the fundamental and specifically Christian theological stance that begins from creatio ex nihilo, the author shows how Chiara Lubich, on the basis of her charism of unity, develops an original understanding of the event of cr...

monotheistic religions are revelation-centred.in these religions god's experience is transmitted to man through language,and this linguistic experience has two characteristics: first,it is communicated between god and man and is thust holy and serves as a basis for his religions life. secodlay, the very experience is desired. this experience of communication is by no means restricted revel...

[ABSTRACT] Some argue that God’s omnipotence and moral perfection prevent God from being afraid and having evil desires and thus from understanding such states—which contradicts God’s omniscience. But, I argue, God could acquire such understanding indirectly, either by (i) perceiving the mental states of imperfect creatures, (ii) imaginatively combining the components of mental states with whic...

divine names and attributes have a great bearing on the relationship between man and god in respects such as belief in and supplication to him. the semantic dimension of this issue has been the focus of attention in the philosophy of religion. this aspect of divine names and attributes is concerned with questions as to how to discuss god’s names and how these names relate to man’s attributes. i...

What role does the notion of the divine play in Aristotle’s account of a good life? This is not an obvious question; god appears relatively infrequently, for example, in the Nicomachean Ethics. But it might interest us, if only because of the perplexing appearance of the divine in Book 10 of that treatise, as that which appears to underwrite the choice of a contemplative life. The cognate quest...