A Foray to the Principle of the Infinitude of the Reality of Being and Its Function in the Justification of God’s Existence and the Determination of the Width of Ibn Sina’s Ontological Proof (The Lovers of the Truth Argument)

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1 Ph.D. in Hikmat Ta'alaye, Department of Philosophy and Islamic Wisdom, Faculty of Theology and Islamic Studies, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran.

2 Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy and Islamic Wisdom, Faculty of Theology and Islamic Studies, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran.

3 Professor, Department of Philosophy and Islamic Wisdom, Faculty of Theology and Islamic Studies, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran.

Abstract

This article aims to specify the main function of the Principle of the Infinitude of the Reality of Being in the justification of God’s Existence while demarcating the width of multiple versions of the Ontological Proof better known as the The Lovers of the Truth Argument (Burhan-i Siddiqin). There are arguments in favor of the indemonstrability of God’s existence among which one can refer to the impossibility of the attaining the acquired knowledge about God, the impossibility of attaining the present or intuitive knowledge of God, the impossibility of the deductive argument and the invalidity of inductive argument to prove God’s existence, the impossibility of argument for the existence of God through the pre-eternal necessity as well as the impossibility of argument for God’s existence through the absence of the defining condition. I contend that not only the application of the principle of the infinitude of Reality can justify all the aforementioned arguments, presenting God as demonstrable reality, but it also elaborates on a novel conclusion with respect to the width of the ontological argument (Burhan-i Siddiqin). In this way, all the arguments for the existence of God can share the main criterion offered by the Avicennan ontological argument. It should be noted, however, that the nobility of these arguments depends on the intensity of divine appearance in the manifestations of the reality of being.
Keywords: The Infinitude of the Reality of Being, God’s Demonstrability, Avicenna’s Ontological Argument (Burhan-i Siddiqin), The Connective Unity of Being, Inductive Argument, Deductive Argument.

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