Part IV: Condensed Version

As an overview, Cleanthes is draw as a philosopher that has a calm air disposition. Demea is the single(a) more(prenominal) concerned in the baffle of religion. Philo is the arbiter or intermediary betwixt the ideas presented by Cleanthes and Demea. Cleanthes was wondering wherefore Demea was insisting that the god had no affinity to clements in terms of charitable chief and understanding. For Cleanthes, the divinity has powers that humans lav non comprehend, for that is its reputationun pardon equal. Though incomprehensible, Cleanthes recognized the graven image as a supreme being.Cleanthes alike questioned Demea what was the variance of those who believed in the idol and those who were Sceptics or Atheists. Atheists believed that the original cause of all was an un bashn being. Atheists do non recognize the liveence of a graven image. Atheists have boldness. Not only they had spurned the production by a melodic theme, they as well pretend to assign inte lligible cause. Demea replied and commented that Cleanthes had presented his impressions concerning the graven image with criticism instead of movement forbidden.Demea presented the comparison between the Deity and humans since Cleanthes said that the Deity is similar to the way humans phone and understand. A human mind is modify with ideas, feelings, passions, and different faculties. And the human mind varies from one individual to another. Though they vary from one another, the ideas they presented have form or order. The Deity has a thoroughgoing(a) nature. He is able to see into the past, into the present, and into the future. Also, dissimilar the human mind that can change from one authority to another, the Deity has a fixed and firmed decision.The heraldic bearing of the Deity is felt by those who believe in it. He is present everywhere, unlike humans who can only exist in one place at a certain point in time. Cleanthes again commented based on Demeas words. With the way Demea apologiseed, Cleanthes said that those who maintain the perfect relaxation of the independent universe were enumerateed Atheists, rightful(prenominal) they were unaw ar of it. For if we recognized the conception of the Deity, and since we know that his characteristics are incomprehensible, humans must birth the Deity the take to be he deserves.As humans, it is save natural to get around due respect to the Deity. However, humans who do not give due respect to the Deity are diverging to the accustomed way of the Deitys nature. It all bois down to human mind and the way it perceives things. Those who do not respect the Deity have dependent their minds to telephone of ways to give idealisation to the Deity. A mind that thinks with simplicity cannot think of creative reasoning and ordinarily habituated to what is common, or to something that has no uniqueness at all.Demea chose to believe in the perfect simplicity of the Deity. The way we defined simplicity does not describe the true nature of the Deity, for the Deitys mind definitely does not think simply. Same with humans, the Deitys way of thinking is complicated til now creative. Philo, upon hearing the exchange of ideas between Cleanthes and Demea, argued that in order to know the cause of that Being whom you suppose the indite of Nature, they could judge the function by reason or by experience. With reasoning we are able to explain the cause of every idea we thought of.We explain things based on reasoning that involves a whole lot of mind thinking. With experience we are able to explain the cause based on what we had experienced or what others had experienced. And because experience differs from one person to another, no two individual can think exactly alike. In reasoning, the intellectual world and the literal world some(prenominal) need a cause. In experience, the solid world is much easier to comprehend than the psychic world because the material world is substantia l unlike the mental world or the world of ideas.Philo continued to argue that in order to understand the cause of the Author of Nature why not consider focusing on the present material world. What is beyond the material world is fainthearted and unknown. It is like saying to be contended on what we presently know about the Deity or God and do not worry ourselves on what is incomprehensible to us. The close to important is that we know that on that point is a God. Philo added that some philosophers were ignorant and yet they conceal to know explanation to some depends.Such philosophers were called Peripatetics they would reason out and yet they were not actually knowledgeable of the matter. They took advantage of those who were unaware of the matter. The matter on having an order in the ideas of the Supreme Being was an poser. Some philosophers explained that having order is just one of the natures of the Deity. Cleanthes commented that Philos arguments were easy to answer. Cl eanthes gave an example that if he were assigned cause for an event, would there be a problem if he could not tell the cause of that cause?For Cleanthes, knowing the Deity is the most important. He had halt his inquiries and settled on the point that there is a Deity. He did not push to knowing the cause or the order of the ideas of the Deity. For him, the existence of the Deity is what is more important. Believing on this fact is already enough. He would not busy himself on discovering what else should be known about the Deity. However, Cleanthes also said that those who would want to know what is beyond the existence of a Deity may do so.Philo said that he fictional not to be like Cleanthes who stopped thinking what lies ahead or what is beyond the existence of the Deity. Philo also pretended not to be like those who go and look beyond to inquiry more of the existence of the Deity. Philo said he should have not attempted to expound on his arguments. Philo in a bad way(p) tha t naturalists, with regard to the matter about the Deity, normally explain their ideas by giving out general causes.