Varieties of Avicennian arguments for the existence of God
In his The Salvation and The Remarks and Admonitions, Avicenna presents a well-known argument for the existence of God as a necessary being by itself. I will suggest, first of all, that the two pivotal notions employed in the argument, namely those of a necessary being by itself and a contingent bei...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2022
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Religious studies
Année: 2022, Volume: 58, Numéro: S1, Pages: 76-96 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Avicenna 980-1037
/ Question de l’existence de Dieu
/ Ens necessarium
/ Preuve par la contingence
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| RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophie de la religion BJ Islam NBC Dieu |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
ṣiddīqīn argument
B contingent being by itself B necessary being by itself B Avicenna's argument for the existence of God |
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| Résumé: | In his The Salvation and The Remarks and Admonitions, Avicenna presents a well-known argument for the existence of God as a necessary being by itself. I will suggest, first of all, that the two pivotal notions employed in the argument, namely those of a necessary being by itself and a contingent being by itself, can be construed in different ways, leading to different versions of Avicenna's argument. I then turn to a specific version of the argument which seeks to show that there is at least one independently existing entity. This version constitutes the core of other versions of Avicenna's argument. Next, I shall explore how one might move from the existence of an independently existing entity to that of a necessary being by itself (variously construed). Finally, I will argue that the Avicennian argument for an independently existing entity suffers from a severe problem in that it fails to take account of the possibility of many-to-one causal relation. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-901X |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Religious studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0034412522000361 |