goat, 13
God, 40 , 325 , 413 , 521 , 542 , 694 , 768 ; and St. Ambrose, 337 ,
338 ; and St. Anselm, 417 -418; and Aquinas, 426 , 454 -460, 462 ;
arguments for and proofs of, 37 , 455 , 585 590, 609 , 644 , 787 , 835 ;
and Aristotle, 167 , 168 169, 172 , 180 , 192 , 288 , 455 , 456 , 734 ;
and St. Augustine, 349 , 351 , 365 ; and Averroes, 426 ; and Bentham,
614 , 776 ; and Berkeley, 494 , 644 , 647 , 702 ; and Boethius, 370
-371; and Caesar, 306 ; and Cynics, 238 , 239 ; and Descartes, 562 ,
563 , 566 , 583 ; and good and bad, 117 , 769 ; and government, 553 ,
619 , 629 ; and Hegel, 734 , 735 ; and Heraclitus, 41 , 44 ; and James,
811 , 817 , 818 ; and Jews, 144 , 308 , 312 , 346 , 428 ; and John the
Scot, 404 -405, 456 ; and Kant, 645 , 709 ; and Leibniz, 583 -590, 593
, 594 -595; and Locke, 606 , 609 , 613 616, 625 , 628 , 633 , 702 ; and
man, 729 , 749 , 765 , 827 , 828 ; and mystics, 353 , 681 , 757 ; and
Newton, 537 , 538 , 563 ; and Nietzsche, 749 , 765 , 769 ; of Old and
New Testaments, 447 , 585 ; and Origen, 327 -329; and Orphism, 19 ,
21 , 33 ; and Parmenides, 48 , 128 ; and permanence, 45 ; and Plato,
109 , 113 , 130 , 143 148, 289 , 358 , 835 ; and Platonic ideas, 122 ,
124 , 127 , 129 , 130 ; and Plotinus, 288 , 289 ; and Pythagoras, 32 , 33
, 37 ; and Reformation, 523 ; and Rousseau, 691 -694; and
Schopenhauer, 755 , 757 , 758 ; and science, 537 538; and Socrates, 86
, 87 , 88 , 134 ; and soul, 346 , 523 ; and Spinoza, 123 , 375 -376, 569
, 571 -574, 583 , 742 ; and Stoics, 253 , 254 , 256 , 258 , 259 , 263
-268, 291 ; thoughts of, 37 , 820 ; and Voltaire, 689 ; and Wycliffe,
484. See also Creator; One; pantheism; Trinity
god (s): and Alexander, 219 ; and Aristotle, 168 , 181 , 455 -456, 462 ;
and St. Augustine, 355 -357; in Bacchic ritual, 16 ; and Empedocles,
53 , 56 , 57 ; and Epicurus, 246 , 247 ; and Greeks, 19 , 26 , 27 , 40 ,
43 , 77 , 204 , 213 , 295 ; and Homer, 11 , 109 -110; and Jews, 310
-311, 318 ; and Plato, 109 , 112 , 144 -148; of Rome, 278 ; and
Socrates, 85 , 87 , 141 , 142 ; and Stoics, 254 , 256. See also
Olympian gods
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, German poet and author ( 1749-1832),
229 , 576 , 720 , 751
Gog and Magog, 362
gold, 43 , 111 , 113 , 283
golden age, 55 , 56 , 262 Golden Fleece, Order of the, 513
golden mean, 161 , 173 , 182 , 189
good,-ness, 44 , 136 , 177 , 179 , 280 , 473 , 687 , 688 , 711 , 763 ; and
Aristotle, 173 , 178 , 179 , 182 ; and cynics, 230 , 231 ; Manichæan
view of, 325 ; in Persian dualism, 476 ; and Plato, 106 , 117 -118, 126
, 130 , 131 -133; and Plotinus, 284 , 288 ; standards of, 34 , 117
Gordian III (Marcus Antonius Gordianus), Roman Emperor ( 224?
244 ), 287
Gordons ( Byron's maternal ancestors), 748