(September 7, 2018 at 1:13 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: My basic position is that even a severely limited notion of Platonic Ideas is not different in kind from the notion of Divinity. Clearly, the Classical concept of God has be developed to a much greater degree, and perhaps in some sense is more speculative because it depends more on premises derived from personal experience than it does on self-evident axioms. The Christian conception of God further relies on the acceptance of the NT documents as historically grounded. It seems to me being less axiomatic does not itself indicate of a flawed application of anyone’s rational faculties or moral deficiency on the part of those holding religious views.
But that's exactly where we disagree. I do see it as different in kind, and I think any rational investigation of the differences would demonstrate that fact. They simply are categorically different in simple ways. Take Poly's argument that mathematical objects are constructed rather than discovered. You simply cannot make a similar argument about God because they are not at all the same kind of thing.
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