Specialty of divine action and Avicenna's metaphysics

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 kharazmi univeasity, faculty of literature and humanities. philosophy group

2 Department of philosophy,Faculty of literature and humanities, Kharazmi university

10.22061/orj.2020.1406

Abstract

This paper is about the special divine action in the nature. In the contemporary philosophy of religion, the static view of Aristotelianism or Peripatetic school to the nature seems to be a barrier in the explanation of the special divine action. This paper has two definite goals. The first is to defend the consistency of Avicenna's philosophy with different interpretations of the term "special" in special divine action. The second goal is to answer this question:  Is it possible to present an explanation of "specific action" based on Avicenna's philosophy, which has the necessary and sufficient components of a good answer? It seems the explanation of the nature and act of God in Avicenna's philosophy cannot provide that necessity and this sufficiency. The authors claim that the foundations of Avicenna's philosophy on the divine action can go beyond the mental meaning, provide the functional meaning, but are unable to realize the components of the special divine action in its objective sense.

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