God in Philosophy: Past and Present

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Faculty member of Payame Noor University-Isfahan

10.29252/kavosh.2003.2259

Abstract

Comparatively speaking, there are many common points of view in different speculations about the existence of God. What counts in comparative methods of studying philosophical schools is the pretender's opinions not the reasons. The subjects need to be the same in different schools, although the reasoning methods might be different.
By surveying the traditional demonstrations, we find out that philosophers tried to prove the existence of God by pure rational methods and sometimes based their statements on religions. As it emerges, Jews, Christians, and Muslims all acknowledge that “God first created the Heaven and the Earth”. The acknowledgement is based on the word of God as stated in Holy Scriptures.
As for the modernist studies, all the effort is aimed at the logical proving or denying of the existence of God. The studies hold on to revelation methods on the purpose of conciliating monotheistic and atheistic views. They end up indeed in underlining the recognition of God as the sublime achievement of the intellectual man’s speculation.
This article takes a brief glance at Mollasadra’s Seddighin reasoning, Imam Khomeini’s notes, Anselm's ontological arguments, and modernist schools. With regard to the fact that “God is closer to us than we are to ourselves”, whatever reason provided for his existence merely serves as a reminder to the intellectual.
 

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Journal of Kavoshnameh in Persian Language and Literature
Volume 3, 5 & 6 - Serial Number 6
August 2021
Pages 37-64

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