Simple is as simple does: Plantinga and Ghazālī on divine simplicity
This study considers the notion of divine simplicity, the idea that God is not a composite of more basic features, and the criticisms by al-Ghazālī (d. 1111) and Alvin Plantinga of that doctrine. What is shown is that most of the argumentation against divine simplicity frequently credited to Plantin...
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| Tipo de documento: | Electrónico Artículo |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2022
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Religious studies
Año: 2022, Volumen: 58, Número: S1, Páginas: 97-109 |
| (Cadenas de) Palabra clave estándar: | B
Ġazzālī, Abū-Ḥāmid Muḥammad Ibn-Muḥammad al- 1058-1111
/ Plantinga, Alvin 1932-
/ Simplicidad divina
/ Lo ente necesario
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| Clasificaciones IxTheo: | AB Filosofía de la religión NBC Dios |
| Otras palabras clave: | B
Avicenna
B Divine Simplicity B Necessary Existent (wājib al-wujūd) B al-Ghazālī B Alvin Plantinga |
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| Sumario: | This study considers the notion of divine simplicity, the idea that God is not a composite of more basic features, and the criticisms by al-Ghazālī (d. 1111) and Alvin Plantinga of that doctrine. What is shown is that most of the argumentation against divine simplicity frequently credited to Plantinga had been nearly perfectly anticipated by al-Ghazālī. Moreover, in responding to a stronger form of divine simplicity, which Avicenna (d. 1037) had presented, than the Thomistic version that Plantinga attacks, Ghazālī develops ‘new’ arguments and moves that are still valuable and informative to the discussion of divine simplicity today. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-901X |
| Obras secundarias: | Enthalten in: Religious studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0034412522000130 |