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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Main Author: Morvarid, Mahmoud (Author)
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 2022
In: Religious studies
Year: 2022, Volume: 58, Issue: S1, Pages: 76-96
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Avicenna 980-1037 / Existence of God / Ens necessarium / Argument from contingency
RelBib Classification:AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism
BJ Islam
NBC Doctrine of God
Further subjects: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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