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	SEP: Eternity
		Boethius presents the idea of divine eternity as straightforward and relatively problem-free, while Augustine wrestles with the idea and expresses continual puzzlement and indeed amazement at the idea of time itself and with it the contrasting idea of divine eternality.
		It may also be argued that the idea of perfection is a flexible one and that though it may be reasonable to interpret perfection in Anselmic fashion, other conceptions of perfection in which God is understood temporally are not unreasonable.
		But the theory of relativity is generally taken to support the idea that the universe is a 4-dimensional space-time block, that time is a matter of perspective and that an ideal knower outside the universe would observe it ‘all at once’.
	www.seop.leeds.ac.uk /entries/eternity (4776 words)

	Occam's razor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Theories which specifically, logically entail the observed set of data or are similarly entailed by it are preferred over theories which are trivially consistent with it by mere virtue of being consistent with a wide range of possible data a priori or ad-hoc adjustment that is otherwise unjustified (see also Bayesian inference and falsifiability).
		Occam's razor is not equivalent to the idea that "perfection is simplicity".
		Leibniz's version took the form of a principle of plenitude, as Arthur Lovejoy has called it, the idea being that God created the world with the most possible creatures.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Occam%27s_Razor (4943 words)

	René Descartes [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		This idea of perfection is related to the notion of a degree of reality (and Descartes often speaks in those terms) in so far as the perfect being is thought to have a self-caused or necessary existence, whereas 'lesser' beings are considered 'contingent'.
		Therefore, the idea of a supremely perfect being entails existence (that is, a supremely perfect being exists).
		That is to say, the ideas we have of the body and mind in union are different from, and irreducible to, the ideas we have of either extended matter, or of thinking substance.
	www.iep.utm.edu /d/descarte.htm (19639 words)

	Occam\'s Razor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Leibniz's version took the form of a principle of plentitude as Arthur Lovejoy has called it.
		The idea behind the principle was that God created the world with the most possible creatures.
		The hypothesis that "the tree was knocked over by marauding 200 meter tall space aliens" requires several additional assumptions (concerning the very existence of aliens, their ability and desire to travel interstellar distances and the alien biology that allows them to be 200 meters tall in terrestrial gravity) and is therefore less preferable.
	occams-razor.iqnaut.net (3985 words)

	SEP: Thomas Hill Green
		Thus, Green argues that “this rational self-consciousness … is an element of identity between us and a perfect being, who is in full realisation what we only are in principle and possibility.” (F 267–8) When properly exercised reason brings the individual to a more developed and compelling understanding of the spiritualised world.
		Hence he attacked the Nicene council for seeking to repress the idea that Jesus was born a normal human being.
		As Kant puts it, the “perfect political constitution” is perfect precisely because its existence is essential to the realisation of “all [of the] natural capacities of mankind” (Kant, 1991a, p.50).
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/green (18708 words)

	Dictionary of the History of Ideas
		concept of perfection: to be perfectible is to be capable
		Perfection, that is, is for an elite; although
		perfected, this must be as a consequence of his rela-
	etext.lib.virginia.edu /cgi-local/DHI/dhi.cgi?id=dv3-57 (8042 words)

	Church History Links for The Christian Empire-- 313-476 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		He developed more fully Philo’s and Clement’s ideas of allegorical interpretation, understanding three levels of interpretation within a text that corresponded to three aspects of the human being.
		Mesopotamian Scholasticism: A History of the Christian Theological School in the Syrian Orient.
		John Wesley called Ephraim "the man of a broken heart." Wesley's devotion to Ephraim was one of his links with the Cappadocian Fathers, which influenced his idea of perfection.
	gbgm-umc.org /umw/bible/celinks.stm (1934 words)

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