جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « essences » در نشریات گروه « علوم انسانی »

Theologians believe that the creatures exist based on the activity of the oneness god. But before that, we can ask “Why are creatures possible?”. Brian Leftow has criticized the traditional responses that maintain possible objects are possible due to knowledge of god. God knows the apple, so the apple is possible. It is not a satisfactory response for Leftow, because the essence of God does not need this possibility. Whether the apple is possible or not, God is the God. Also, it seems that the possibility of any creature is necessary. Leftow maintains that this necessity is not written in the essence of God but instead depends on God’s thinking and voluntary creation in his mind. God is the author not just of created reality, but of its vocabulary. This paper explains Leftow’s theory and then criticizes its idea depending on the perfect being theology that Leftow has accepted.

One of the important issues in theoretical mysticism is renewal of essences, a notion which cannot be perceived except through intuition. This issue is an exposition of mystical creation. According to renewal of essences, appearances are essentially non-existent, do not last in the context of external existence for more than a moment and lend their always place an entirely to similar appearance. In other words, in renewal of essences, the creation of things is permanent and in every moment every creatures is replaced by a similar existing thing though not identical in the previous moment. Given this point, what we consider creature during the period of existence is in fact a series of continuous and, in fact, accurate and successive creations. Among the findings of this research is that it is possible to the existence of perfection in the different configurations of the world and to the negation of any eliminating manifestation (versus creating manifestation).