(May 9, 2015 at 4:07 pm)Nestor Wrote: I see Plato as attempting to rectify the disparity in the views of Parmenides and Heraclitus in much the same way that Kant sought to reconcile rationalism and empiricism.
Plato attempted. Aristotle solved. Aquinas refined....
(May 9, 2015 at 4:07 pm)Nestor Wrote: Yes, ontological arguments for objective goods are similar to the ones employed by those seeking to justify their belief in God. Except that there is nothing in a rational demonstration of the former that requires personality, omnipotence, omniscience, etc, and all of the other silly anthropomorphic features...
Perhaps you are not yet as familiar with those arguments as you are those of Heraclitus, Parmenides, and Kant. Also those terms with reference to the God of the Philosophers is slightly different that the meanings a typical Evangelical would assign to them.
