Avicenna's Theory of God's Knowledge of Particulars; Investigating Marmura's Interpretation

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Zadyousefi Amirhossein; SAEEDIMEHR MOHAMMAD; ZAMANIHA HOSSEIN

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Journal: PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION RESEARCH (NAMAH-I HIKMAT) Year:2018 | Volume:16 | Issue:1 (31) Page(s): 127-150

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Avicenna's Theory of God's Knowledge of Particulars; Investigating Marmura's Interpretation

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Zadyousefi Amirhossein | SAEEDIMEHR MOHAMMAD | ZAMANIHA HOSSEIN | Issue Writer Certificate

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God's Knowledge of ParticularsQ1

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Michael E.MarmuraQ1

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Michael E. Marmura, an outstanding Avicenna scholar, has presented a special interpretation of Avicenna’ s view concerning God’ s knowledge of particulars. In this paper, which consists of two parts, we will examine his interpretation of Avicenna. In the first part, we briefly present Marmura’ s reading of Avicenna’ s theory of God’ s knowledge of particulars. According to Marmura’ s interpretation of Avicenna, God only knows, individually, particular entities which are the only member of their species. Also, He knows, individually, particular events which are attributed to such particular entities. Arguing that Avicenna’ s theory is not able to explain God’ s knowledge of ‘ all’ particulars, Marmura concludes that Avicenna ‘ believed’ that God does not know all particulars individually. In the second part, we will object his interpretation. The most important criticisms are as follows: he has not determined what problems Avicenna’ s theory aims to solve; he has not touched two important elements of Avicenna’ s theory, i. e., God’ s knowledge of particulars by means of their forms, and God’ s knowledge of particulars by means of His causal relation with them; and he presents an erroneous interpretation of Avicenna’ s use of the eclipse example.

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Zadyousefi, Amirhossein, SAEEDIMEHR, MOHAMMAD, & ZAMANIHA, HOSSEIN. (2018). Avicenna's Theory of God's Knowledge of Particulars; Investigating Marmura's Interpretation. PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION RESEARCH (NAMAH-I HIKMAT), 16(1 (31) ), 127-150. SID. https://sid.ir/paper/125894/en

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Zadyousefi Amirhossein, SAEEDIMEHR MOHAMMAD, ZAMANIHA HOSSEIN. Avicenna's Theory of God's Knowledge of Particulars; Investigating Marmura's Interpretation. PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION RESEARCH (NAMAH-I HIKMAT)[Internet]. 2018;16(1 (31) ):127-150. Available from: https://sid.ir/paper/125894/en

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Amirhossein Zadyousefi, MOHAMMAD SAEEDIMEHR, and HOSSEIN ZAMANIHA, “Avicenna's Theory of God's Knowledge of Particulars; Investigating Marmura's Interpretation,” PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION RESEARCH (NAMAH-I HIKMAT), vol. 16, no. 1 (31) , pp. 127–150, 2018, [Online]. Available: https://sid.ir/paper/125894/en

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