FUNDAMENTAL EVOLUTIONS OF THE CONCEPT OF “INFINITE ESSENCE” (FROM ANAXIMANDER'S APEIRON TO DESCARTES’ INFINITE GOD)

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Journal: Philosophy of religion Year:2015 | Volume:12 | Issue:3 Page(s): 593-622

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FUNDAMENTAL EVOLUTIONS OF THE CONCEPT OF “INFINITE ESSENCE” (FROM ANAXIMANDER'S APEIRON TO DESCARTES’ INFINITE GOD)

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INFINITEQ2

FINITEQ2

GODQ3

TRANSCENDENTQ2

IMMANENTQ2

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The concept of “INFINITE essence” that is both philosophically and theologically important, has passed many different evolutions in western history of thought. Pre-Socratic has evaluated it in two different ways. Anaximander and Melisus agree that the principle substance is INFINITE and divine, but neither absolutely TRANSCENDENT nor anthropomorphic. The INFINITE is the phusis in its substantial aspect. On the other hand, many ancient Greek philosophers, especially Plato and Aristotle, think that the perfect thing cannot be INFINITE, because according to them, the INFINITE is both ontologically and epistemologically indeterminate. But Philo, on the contrary, under the influence of Jewish tradition, set the infinity and perfection together as attributes of GOD; and Christian theologians in agreement with him, considered GOD as INFINITE and TRANSCENDENT being who is beyond of nature. In last ages of mediaeval period, some of the Christians changed their attitude toward transcendence and considered GOD as IMMANENT being, but yet person. By the outset of the modern age, Descartes accepted the idea of INFINITE, TRANSCENDENT and personal GOD, and declared that perfection and infinity can be taken together as attributes of divine being.

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SABERI VARZANEH, HOSSEIN. (2015). FUNDAMENTAL EVOLUTIONS OF THE CONCEPT OF “INFINITE ESSENCE” (FROM ANAXIMANDER'S APEIRON TO DESCARTES’ INFINITE GOD). PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION, 12(3), 593-622. SID. https://sid.ir/paper/190610/en

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SABERI VARZANEH HOSSEIN. FUNDAMENTAL EVOLUTIONS OF THE CONCEPT OF “INFINITE ESSENCE” (FROM ANAXIMANDER'S APEIRON TO DESCARTES’ INFINITE GOD). PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION[Internet]. 2015;12(3):593-622. Available from: https://sid.ir/paper/190610/en

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HOSSEIN SABERI VARZANEH, “FUNDAMENTAL EVOLUTIONS OF THE CONCEPT OF “INFINITE ESSENCE” (FROM ANAXIMANDER'S APEIRON TO DESCARTES’ INFINITE GOD),” PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 593–622, 2015, [Online]. Available: https://sid.ir/paper/190610/en

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