Common use of Analysis part 2 Clause in Contracts

Analysis part 2. God is not completely detached from creation We saw in the previous section that Xxxxx’x main problem with the people who held the material world to be uncreated was that they eliminated God’s providence. To understand Xxxxx’x arguments in support of the createdness of the world, we need to know the following: who were the people of whom Xxxxx thought? Several scholars have proposed that Xxxxx refuted the Aristotelian position in Opif. 6b–12.181 Others have come to the conclusion that Xxxxx had the Stoics in mind.182 However, Xxxxx appears to address two kinds of opponents instead of just one, for he offers two clues regarding the people he wants to counter. The first clue is that they allegedly underestimate God, presenting him as inactive; the second is that they overestimate the world, assigning to it more splendour than it deserves.183 p. 434) and according to him, both Xxxxx and the Stoics held that God’s freedom is limited because he is bound to the laws of nature, which excludes individual providence (ibid., vol. 2, p. 283). However, as the paraphrase of sections from the Laws shows, Xxxxx intended to prove that the gods are good and held care on both a general and an individual level to be an essential element of that goodness.