(September 9, 2019 at 8:38 am)Tom Fearnley Wrote: No I don't think they have but it might be worth a try. That's a lot of research!
I'm pretty sure they have, in fact. It's one of the big things they addressed.
Most of the guys I named are running variations on Plato and Aristotle, so once you've got those two in hand the others are easier.
I mean... if you're going to pose these questions as tough challenges to believers, it would make sense to look up the answers they've given already. It's not as if nobody has thought of it before. And I'm not saying they're right, only that if a problem in their thinking looks incredibly obvious to us, it's likely that they addressed it long ago.
One example that comes to mind offhand: in Stoicism one aspect of God (or one way that God is apparent to us) was said to be the Logos. Then the Gospel of John says Jesus is Logos, importing this theological concept. But Logos is principle, reason, logic -- the "rules" by which everything works. Is logic made of something?
