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William Lane Craig (born 1949), who revived the Kalam cosmological argument during the 20th and 21st centuries. The Kalam cosmological argument is a modern formulation of the cosmological argument for the existence of God. It is named after the Kalam (medieval Islamic scholasticism) from which many of its key ideas originated. [1]
The Kalām Cosmological Argument is a 1979 book by the philosopher William Lane Craig, in which the author offers a contemporary defense of the Kalām cosmological argument and argues for the existence of God, with an emphasis on the alleged metaphysical impossibility of an infinite regress of past events. First, Craig argues that the universe ...
William Lane Craig, The Kalam Cosmological Argument, 1979; Alvin Plantinga, "Is Belief in God Properly Basic?", 1981; Jean-Luc Marion, God Without Being, 1982; J. L. Mackie, The Miracle of Theism: Arguments for and against the Existence of God, 1982; John Hick, An Interpretation of Religion: Human Responses to the Transcendent, 1989/2004
Kalam cosmological argument; L. ... Mathematics and God; Meinongian argument; Argument from morality; N. Natural Theology or Evidences of the Existence and Attributes ...
A cosmological argument can also sometimes be referred to as an argument from universal causation, an argument from first cause, the causal argument or the prime mover argument. The concept of causation is a principal underpinning idea in all cosmological arguments, particularly in affirming the necessity for a First Cause .
This would support the Kalam cosmological argument, backing up the premise that the universe began to exist. [1] In 2018, Pruss provided a more thorough cosmological argument using causal finitism to motivate a necessary uncaused cause. The argument is as follows: Nothing has an infinite causal history. [Note 1] There are no causal loops.
I cannot survive to any moment past 12pm (a grim reaper would get me first), but I cannot be killed (for grim reaper n to kill me, I must have survived grim reaper n+1, which is impossible). [12] It has gained significance in philosophy via its use in arguing for a finite past, thereby bearing relevance to the Kalam cosmological argument.
Sharia (Islamic law) placed importance on formulating standards of argument, which gave rise to a novel approach to logic in Kalam, but this approach was later displaced by ideas from Greek philosophy and Hellenistic philosophy with the rise of the Mu'tazili philosophers, who highly valued Aristotle's Organon.