Abstracts

God’s Pre-creation Knowledge of Creation

Ghulamreza Fayyazi

Arranged by: Husain Muzaffari

This paper deals with four famous theories of God’s pre-creation knowledge of creation explaining their points of weakness and strength. These theories include:

a) Peripatetics believe that God’s pre-creation knowledge of creation is acquired, detailed and is out of the essence of God.

b) Suhrawardi is of the view that God’s pre-creation knowledge is general and compendious.

c) Mulla Sadra’s earlier (initial) view is that God’s intuitive knowledge of Himself includes his pre-creation knowledge of creation.

d) Mulla Sadra’s latest view is that God’s pre-creation knowledge of creation is acquired and detailed while being at the same time identical with the Divine Essence.

Explaining the weaknesses of the first three theories, the author supports the fourth theory deeming it free from the objections raised against the first three theories and choosing it as his own theory.

Keywords: General knowledge, Detailed knowledge, God’s pre-creation knowledge, God’s acquired knowledge.

The Proofs of the Most Truthful Ones: Versions, Objections and Answers

Husain Ushshaqi

The principality of existence lies in the fact that existence exists by itself, that is 'existing' is not a quality added to it rather it is the very essence of it. The paper consists of the two parts; the principality of the unconditional essence of existence and the principality of particular beings. Each claim is proved by means of various arguments. The author elaborates on these arguments. He also relates other five theories on the principality of existence which are:

- The principality of quiddity and non-principality of existence.

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