Absolute Creationism, a Response to the Challenge of Platonism for Theism and William Craig's Criticism

Shaddel, Tayyebeh; Atrak, Hossein

Absolute Creationism, a Response to the Challenge of Platonism for Theism and William Craig's Criticism

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

tayyebeh shaddel ¹

Hossein Atrak ²

¹ Phd Islamic Philosophy &amp;amp; Theology

² Associate Professor of Philosophy & Ethics, Department of Philosophy, University of Zanjan, Zanjan, Iran

Abstract

Absolute Creationism or Modified Platonism is the answer to the challenge that Platonism poses to theism. The main concern of this view is the reconcile between Classical theism and Platonism. Absolute creationism, in fact, claims that necessary truths, like possible beings, depend on God. Thus, in the ontological inventory we do not faced a being who exists independently of God, and God is the only independent being. Thus the claim of contemporary Platonists, who argue that some abstract objects, such as necessary truths, necessarily exist, is eternal and uncreated, provided that these truths, while necessary and eternal, are created and dependent on God is accepted. William Craig, the contemporary American theist philosopher, believes that this view faces a number of problems, such as conflate of conceptualism, the Vicious Circularity (Bootstrapping objection), incoherence with free will of God, the traditional theory of creation and traded biblical doctrine of creation with emanationism. Although some of Craig's objections are not to the view of absolute Creationism; But absolute Creationism faces serious problems, and it seems that it is possible to defend the Cartesian view of Universal Possibilism. This paper explains and examines Absolute Creationism and Craig's criticisms

Keywords

Absolut Creationism

Abstract Objects

Platonism

Theism

William Craig

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