Essays in Philosophy of Religion (Jostarhaye Falsafeh Din)

Agha Ali Hakim’s Reading of Ontological Argument in Proving the God Existence

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

morteza pouyan 1
Mohammad saeedimehr 2
Reza Akbarian 3
mohammad ali hojjati 4

1 PhD student in Transcendent Wisdom, Tarbiat Modares University

2 Professor of Philosophy Department of Tarbiat Modarres University

3 Professor of Philosophy, Tarbiat Modares University

4 Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Tarbiat Modares University

Abstract
Meanwhile Agha Ali Hakim was writing his interpretation on Asfar, wrote a thesis in which he presented a reading of ontological argument which he called creative and unique in the world of Islam and among Hekmat-E- Motealie’ s followers. He presented the reading through four considerations from reality of being; if the reality of being, he says, considered 1. by itself; 2. conditioned by absoluteness; 3. conditioned by no condition; 4. purity of a being, we can prove God: because when reality of being be considered by each of these four consideration, we cannot suppose a principle for it; since it leads to circular argument or infinite chain argumentation, and an existent that has no principle, is God only. While we review his reading of the ontological argument, will deal with this problem that by which one of those considerations his argument is complete and by which one is incomplete.

Keywords

Agha Ali Hakim
Ontological Argument
reality of being
conditioned by no condition
purity of being

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