(January 10, 2015 at 12:26 am)robvalue Wrote: I'm not looking for a definition of God that encapsulates everything. I'm just looking for enough that demonstrates you actually know what it is.Fortunatly the great minds have done the heavy lifting for us already...
Aristotle: Unmoved mover, i.e. that which persists in its being throughout all change. (In Aquinas, this means that God is in complete actually)
Anslem: that which the greater than which cannot be conceived.
Plotinus: The All, i.e. the perfect source of Form in which the forms of all contingent things partially partake. (That one needs to be unpacked some, but I think is a fair summary)
Aquinas: Among other things, the Supreme Intelligence that determines the final causes toward which efficient cause are directed.
Each of these encapsulates very nuanced and rigorous philosophical conclusions that withstand the mis-characterizations and strawmen of doubters.
