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INTRODUCTION 1. R. Otto, 'The Idea of the Holy' (Oxford, 1917) Notes INTRODUCTION 1. R. Otto, 'The Idea of the Holy' (Oxford, 1917). Otto attempts to show, not very successfully, that Nirvana has some analogy with the 'Wholly Other.' SeeR. N. Smart, 'Philosophers Speak of God' (London, 1964) p. 136: 'In early Buddhism, in the Theravada and inJainism the mystical quest is central, and there is little place for the religion of the numinous.' 2. 'The Varieties of Religious Experience' (1902; Fontana Library, London, 1960), p. 46. 3. W. Jaeger, 'The Theology of the Early Greek Philosophers' (Oxford, 1967); Etienne Gilson, 'Reason and Revelation in the Middle Ages' (New York, 1938). CHAPTER 1 l. G. Kaufman, 'Philosophy of Religion and Christian Theology', !n 'Journal of Religion', (1957) 236. 2. R. Bultmann, 'The Question of Natural Revelation', in 'Essays: Philo­ sophical and Theological' (London, 1955) p. 90. 3. 'Qu'est ce qu'un dogme?', in 'La Quinzaine' (16 Apr 1905) p. 517: 'Primarily a dogma (i.e. a theological statement) has a practical meaning. Primarily, it states a presumption of a practical kind.' p. 518: 'Christianity is not a system of speculative philosophy, but a source and rule of life, a dis­ cipline of moral and religious action, in short, a set of practical means for obtaining salvation.' 4. Cf. W. F. R. Hardie, 'Aristotle's Ethical Theory' (Oxford, 1968) p. 340: 'Aristotle was not a democratic liberal, and did not shrink from the idea that happiness, at least in its best form, is for the fortunate few not the meritorious many.' 5. Ibid., p. 523. 6. See A. D. Nock, 'Conversion: The Old and the New in Religion from Alexander the Great to Augustine of Hippo' (Oxford, 1933), esp. chap. xi, 'Conversion to Philosophy'. 7. On the medieval 'dialecticians' and 'anti-dialecticians' and St Anselm's intellectualism, see M. J. Charlesworth, 'St Anselm's Proslogion' (Oxford, 1965) pp. 25-6. 8. See Gilson, 'Reason and Revelation in the Middle Ages', pp. 55-65. 9. 'Republic', 365e; 'Laws', 885d. 10. 'Republic', 364-7. 11. 'Republic', 379a-380d. 12. A. Dies, 'Autour de Platon', ii (Paris, 1927) 591. This old but still valuable study has two excellent chapters, 'Le Dieu de Platon' (chap. iii), and 'La Religion de Platon' (chap. iv). 13. 'Philebus', 28d; 'Laws', 889e--890a; 'Gorgias', 487c--484c. P.O.R.---<1 179 14. Cited in Dies, 'Autour de Platon', ii 533; Cf. p. 536: 'The Iflllin proofs of the existence of God are, with Plato, e.choes not only of Socrates' teachings but also of an entire literature that existed before him.' 15. W. Jaeger, 'The Theology of the Early Greek Philosophers' (Oxford, 1967) p. 36. 16. Ibid., p. 54: 'He was profoundly impressed by the way in which philo­ sophy was disturbing the old religion, and it was this that made him insist upon a new and purer conception of the divine nature.' 17. Ibid., p. 72. 18. BOa-b. 19. 'Sophist', 249a. 20. 509b. 21. See, for example, Plato's 'Seventh Letter', 341 c-402, regarding the divine: 'There is no writing of mine on this subject, nor will there ever be; for it cannot be put into words like other objects of knowledge.' 22. cr. A. J. Festugiere, 'Personal Religion among the Greeks' (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1934) p. 133: 'lfnous is taken in its twofold meaning as both intellectual faculty and mystical faculty, there will result a philosophical contemplation leading, in its final stage, to mystical contact; here we have the true Platonic tradition, that adopted, for example, by Plotinus.' See also the same author's 'Contemplation et vie contemplative selon Platon', 2nd ed. (Paris, 1950). 23. Cf. R. Hackforth, 'Plato's Theism', in 'Studies in Plato's Metaphysics', ed. R. E. Allen (London, 1965) p. 440: 'For Plato the Demiurge is a theos, so is the created universe, so are the stars and planets and the gods of popular theology, and the (possible) plurality of good souls in "Laws" x; the adjective theios is commonly applied to the Forms.' 24. Hackforth, ibid. cr. Dies, 'Autour de Platon', ii 592-3: 'The dialectical ascent and the mystical or religious ascent are fundamentally the same move­ ment- the movement of the entire soul towards being, towards the intelligible, towards God.' 25. 966c-d. 26. 90a. 27. F. Solmsen, 'Plato's Theology' (New York, 1942) p. 126, claims that Plato's religious intellectualism was balanced by the influence upon him of the mystery religions and their 'general feeling of man's dependence on the gods and the atmosphere of religious awe'. Cf. also W. K. C. Guthrie, 'Orpheus and Greek Religion' (London, 1935) pp. 158-69. But it remains true, as Solm­ sen admits, that the ecstasy typical of the mystery cults has no place in Plato's religion. J. B. McMinn, 'Plato as a Philosophical Theologian', in 'Phronesis', (1960) 30, argues that Plato resorts to 'mythological constructs' in his philo­ sophical theology because he recognises 'the inadequacy of rational explanation' in this sphere. McMinn concludes that Plato's acceptance of a 'noncognitive factor' in religion is akin to the views of those contemporary philosophical theologians who claim that religious knowledge is 'non-cognitive' or 'non­ rational'. But it is clear that for Plato any such conception of 'non­ cognitive knowledge' would be sheer nonsense, and that mythological thinking is an inferior mode of thinking incapable of really disclosing the divine. 28. Dies, 'Autour de Platon', ii 603. 29. W. D. Ross, 'Aristotle's Metaphysics' (Oxford, 1924) p. clii. 30. Ibid., p. cliv. 180 31. Gerald F. Else, 'Aristotle's Poetics: The Argument' (Cambridge, Mass., 1957) p. 475. 32. W. Jaeger, 'Aristotle: Fundamentals of the History of his Development', 2nd ed. (Oxford, 1948); cf. J. H. Randall. 'Aristotle' (New York, 1960) p. 7: 'This theology of the Unmoved Mover, the expression of Aristotle's early Platonistic faith, was gradually pushed into the background.' There is an enor­ mous literature on Jaeger's thesis. For critical views see A. Mansion, 'La genese de l'ceuvre d'Aristote d'apres les travaux recents', 'Revue Neoscolas­ tique de Philosophie', (1927) 307-31, 423-66; F. Nuyens, 'L'Evolution de la psychologie d'Aristote' (Louvain, 1948). Cf. W. K. C. Guthrie, 'The Develop­ ment of Aristotle's Theology', 'Classical Quarterly' (1934) p. 98: 'Aristotle's system, instead of showing a development altogether away from Platonism, might rather be described as in some respects the furnishing of logical grounds for preserving what he regarded as the essential parts of Platonism intact ••. To put this in a more general form, it was his progress in the exact sciences itself which was helping him, not to cast off Platonism, but to substantiate more and more of the Platonic position.' 33. It is not quite exact to say, as W. D. Ross does, that the object of Book viii of the 'Physics' is merely to account for 'the presence of movement in the world and for its having the characteristics it has': 'Aristotle's Physics' (Oxford, 1936) p. 85. Its object is rather to account for the mixture of potentiality and actuality that the material world exemplifies. 34. Sextus Empiricus, 'Phys.', 1. 20-3: 'Aristotle used to say that men's thoughts of gods spring from two sources - the experiences of the soul, and the phenomena of the heavens .... Seeing by day the sun running his circular course, and by night the well-ordered movement of the other stars, they came to think that there is a God who is the cause of such movement and order.' Cited in 'The Works of Aristotle', ed. Sir David Ross (Oxford, 1952) xii ('Select Fragments') 84. 35. 1074b 1-14; cf. W. K. C. Guthrie, in 'Classical Quarterly' (1934) p. 92. 'Astronomy had a strange but undeniable fascination for Aristotle .•.. It was one of the few outlets left to him to show his sympathy with religion. In acknow­ ledging the supremacy of the stars he was paying homage to an age-old belief...• It was the one religious tenet which he felt the rationalist could retain.' I cannot agree, however, with Guthrie's implication here that Aris­ totle's rationalism was at odds with his sympathy for religion. 36. 'Metaphysics', x 10, 1075a 14. 37. W. J. Verdenius, 'Traditional and Personal Elements in Aristotle's Religion', 'Phronesis', v (1960) 61: 'In his strictest form the Aristotelian god is the final cause of the world, residing in his own sphere and acting on the world as a model of perfection. But the final cause sometimes develops an efficient aspect. Consequently, the Aristotelian god, who is the ultimate source of the good, brings about the order of the world, primarily as the object of the world's desire, but secondarily as a regulative force.' 38. P. Merlan, 'The Cambridge History of Later Greek and Early Medieval Philosophy', ed. A. H. Armstrong (Cambridge, 1967) p. 52. In Aristotle's actual practice in the 'Metaphysics', however, it is clear that 'theology' is a part of a more general inquiry. 39. 430a 20-5. 40. Merlan, 'The Cambridge History', p. 118. Alexander's interpretation of the 'De Anima' has been hotly contested by later commentators, but his reading is nevertheless a plausible one. 181 41. x 7, 1177a 12-18. 42. X 8, 1178b 7. 43. 1178b 18-23. 44. Cf. E. R. Dodds, 'The Greeks and the Irrational' (Berkeley, 1951) pp. 117-21. 45. 1177a 13-16; cf. W. F. R. Hardie, 'Aristotle's Ethical Theory' (Oxford, 1969) p. 345. 46. 1177a 25-32. 47. vii 15, 1249b 17-20: 'That choice, then, or possession of the' natural goods - whether bodily goods, wealth, friends, or other things - which will most produce the contemplation of God, that choice or possession is best, this is the noblest standard.
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