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I’m very happy to share my newly published article in the Journal of Islamic Philosophy - featuring a 7 stage argument for the Existence of God as the Unconditioned Reality, absolute divine simplicity, necessary eternal creation, and the Neoplatonic procession of the first conditioned reality known as the Muhammadan Reality and First Intellect. In many ways this is a defense of divine simplicity which, contrary to most accounts, rides its opponents’ objections towards a full blown #Islamic #Neoplatonic worldview.
This article engages with heavyweights in Phil of Rel: first I critique the Kalam argument of WLCraig @RFupdates and the contingency argument of Pruss and Rasmussen @worldviewdesign as falling short in establishing the existence of God.
Next I survey Islamic thought - Ismaili, Avicennian and Sufi Akbari views of God to show that the Muslim concept of God qua Unconditioned Reality (wujud la bi shart) is a far more robust notion of God than the Kalam demiurge or a modally necessary being.
Then I present a seven stage deductive argument for the following claims:
1. There is at least one Unconditioned Reality
2. The Unconditioned Reality is absolutely simple while engaging objections of @majestyofreason and those whom he cites;
3. There is only one Unconditioned Reality
4. The Unconditioned Reality is non-corporeal and timeless - contrary to @theRTMullins and @MMetaphysician beliefs
5. The Unconditioned Reality is unrestricted and boundless
6. The Unconditioned Reality is the Eternal Originator of All Conditioned Realities
7. The Unconditioned Reality Necessarily and Directly Originates a Single, Eternal, and Maximally Excellent (Perfect) Conditioned Reality
Finally I address popular objections such as divine simplicity contradicting scripture, modal collapse and divine freedom.
academia.edu/129691625/Alla…
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