Plato because he came up with the concept of heaven, Anselm because he (weakly) proved G-d's existence, Pascal because he advocated theism in general - not one specific religion, or Descartes because he challenged the very concept of there being a G-d? What do you think?
2006-10-19 07:18:19 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Descartes, because he inspired a sweet Neil Diamond song.
2006-10-19 07:21:13 · answer #1 · answered by Twoflowers 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Actually, from a theistic point of view, the one philospher that came out with the most monumental intellectual explanation of faith and reason, who set the standard for religiuos thinking for the next 1600 years after him, whose arguments are up to this day impecable and practically impossible to refute logically. Who demolished several phillosophical errors of his time and who up to this day is considered by far the greatest mind the scholastic has produced is: ta-tan!!
St. Thomas Aquinas. The "Doctor Angelicus"
Who in his youth was called "dumb-ox" became one of the most reknown and remarkable intellects of all time, and who after a meditation before his death, had a vision, in which God asked him, Thomas, you have done all of this for me, what do you want?
And St Thomas answered: "since you ask, I wiil do. I just want YOU, you are all I want" let it be...and st thomas had a vision in life, we don't know what it was he saw but after that he refused to write not one more word, at all, nothing. He answered that compared to what he had experienced everything he had written was just like "straw"! Imagine! If all the writings of St Thomas can be considered the epithome of what the finite human mind can achieve, the "temple of the Intellect" as it was called, is nothing but straw, then...wow! Leaves me without terms to qualify.
But there, who i think is the greatest philosopher from a theistic perspective, as you put it.
2006-10-19 14:46:37 · answer #2 · answered by Dominicanus 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Philosophy has been and is the tool of Satan. The natural mind is in constant rebellion from God. Therefore what human beings can reason is only darkness.
The only book that is of true merit to study is the Bible.
2006-10-19 14:23:32 · answer #3 · answered by Serving the Lord 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
descartes because without challenge there can be no questions
and without questions there can be no answers
and we would ALL be blindly following something
2006-10-19 14:24:01 · answer #4 · answered by Peace 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋