Calvin has titled the first book of the institutes: Knowledge of God; I've been reading chapter 3 and he has nice references to Plato, Cicero and Plutarch - all really good statements and thoughtful. In this chapter, Calvin's focus is that all men have an innate awareness of God and that religion, in any form, is not arbitrary, rather religion is our internal desire to learn about, know and worship God. A lot ot think about along with the quotes from those three Philosophers, though it might be a stretch to call Cicero a philosopher. Embedded in this dialog, Calvin also adds his analysis that man cannot attain "actual goodness" as this is an attribute of God; I feel this thought fits in this context though it seems more like he has added it as the stepping stone to the next dialog.
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