NPPF - The Big G

[Paul Mackin]

On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 16:56, David Morris wrote:
> 
> 549:  “While snubbing gods including the big G,”
> 
> Why would this be a logical starting point for exploration into the
> “hereafter?”  If the intent was not to be partisan, that still wouldn’t rule
> out some “G” or another.  Kinbote’s comments on the subject and his reported
> conversation with Shade on the subject show K at his most lucid and insightful.
>  IPH’s offhand rejection of God ignores Aquinas, which is at the heart of K’s
> argument w/ Shade (although he attempts to quote Augustine).  ((BTW, I’m just
> barely conversant with these guys)).  It is very interesting that the
> possibilities IPH tries to prepare the newly minted ghost for do parallel the
> kind of afterlife K reasons is likely if there were no God-the-Designer.  It is
> a torrent of currents and spiral eddies, a chaotic mix of ethereal forces
> without order.
> 
> http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/a/aquinas.htm
> Thomas Aquinas:
> “The greatest work of Thomas was the Summa and it is the fullest presentation
> of his views. [
]This follows from the fivefold proof for the existence of God;
> namely, there must be a first mover, unmoved, a first cause in the chain of
> causes, an absolutely necessary being, an absolutely perfect being, and a
> rational designer.”
> 
> Augustine:
> “In [Christian Doctrine] Augustine then states the essentials of Christian
> belief in God, with a most important preamble: God is ineffable, that is, we
> can say nothing truly meaningful about one who transcends the categories of
> human language.”
> 
> I believe one of Aquinas’ major points is that since God is unknowable by human
> means, “Revelation” is absolutely required, which means GOD has to do the
> unveiling of himself, not the other way around.

Not exactly. Thomas Aquinas held that God can be known by natural
reason. (revelation fills in the details)

Augustine also.


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