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This 3 page paper addresses these questions: What is the Sophists' view of the Divine, Plato's view, did Plato believe in one God or many gods, is divinity anthropomorphic, and does the idea of God exclude evil. The paper ends with the writer's own philosophical view of the divine. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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"man is the measure of all things" (The Philosophers Magazine, n.d.). His belief was that it was man to decided what was right or wrong, morality was by man, not
by gods or any other external force (The Philosophers Magazine, n.d.). Morality, to the Sophists, was "relative to the individual" (The Philosophers Magazine, n.d.). Socrates disagreed strongly with the Sophists
view of god and divinity and Plato followed along the same thought lines (The Philosophers Magazine, n.d.). If the Sophists were correct, then, there could be no good or bad
(The Philosophers Magazine, n.d.). In turn, this meant there could not be any moral standards (The Philosophers Magazine, n.d.). Plato talked about the Forms, which represented truth but
not a truth that could be known through the normal five senses, instead, knowledge of the Forms was innate, it was eternal and it was perfect (The Philosophers Magazine, n.d.).
Both Socrates and Plato have been called Christians before Christ (The Philosophers Magazine, n.d.). They provided the foundation, the quest for good, for the soul (The Philosophers Magazine, n.d.). For
example, the story of the Cave brings in the Form of the Good, who is above all other forms (The Philosophers Magazine, n.d.). Plato did talk about God, in Timaeus,
Plato said that if God made the world as perfect then the soul must be perfect, also (Turner, 2004). Platos work would suggest he believed in one God,
not many and he believed God was divine. In the second book of the Republic, Plato presents and "unqualified insistence upon the divine immutability" (Eslick, n.d.). Plato presents a logical
argument for immutability - if perfect, any change would only make the perfect imperfect. In the Republic, Plato said: "Then it is impossible that God should ever be willing to
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