ne of the four real attributes of the necessary being is divine knowledge, which enjoys special significance. reviewing various views in defining knowledge and giving the rational arguments as well as narrated proofs to establish divine knowledge , the present paper deals in detail with the objects and the how of divine knowledge. among different things that are the objects of divine knowledge,...

PHILOSOPHY Ever since the time of Pascal men have feared that the 'God' worshipped by believers and the 'God' contemplated by philosophers were somehow different. The former was personal, historically active, slow to anger and plentiful in mercy: the latter was dubiously able to be described in personal terms at all, and infinite in such a way as to baffle the imagination. The 'God' of the form...

secret is one of the key notions in studying the content of ibn 'arabi's mysticism. secret is a divine bounty which conferred upon the creatures by god and indicates a path stretching byond the reason. as an extension of secret god can be experienced by the mystic. of course undestanding god is a matter of faith and intuition and does not fit the medium of reason. the limits of langua...

The term 'The Divine Command Theory of Ethics' is similar to 'The Ontological Argument' in that there is no unique entity deserving of that title. Rather, there is a multiplicity of theories, each of which is appropriately taken to be a divine command theory. The strongest versions are, if not the finest, at least definist. That is, according to these versions moral predicates, such as 'is obli...

O cunning guide, son of Maia, I fear that you might steal my lyre and my curved bow. For you hold the office from Zeus to establish deeds of exchange among men throughout the fertile earth. But if you would suffer to swear the great oath of the gods for me, either by nodding your head or by the mighty water of the Styx, you would accomplish everything pleasing to my own heart. —Homeric Hymnes 1...