Simplicity’s Deficiency: Al-Ghazali’s Defense of the Divine Attributes and Contemporary Trinitarian Metaphysics

Martin, Nicholas

doi:10.1007/s11245-016-9400-5

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“…5.Ghazālī (2000 b ), discussions 5–8 and Ghazālī (2004, 2013), treatise II, especially part 2; I give subsequent references to ‘Ghazālī (2004 2013)’ in capital roman numerals for ‘treatise’, Arabic numeral for ‘part’, and lower-case roman numeral for subsection. For contemporary discussions of Ghazālī's views on divine simplicity see Moad (2015) and Martin (2017). …”

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Simple is as simple does: Plantinga and Ghazālī on divine simplicity

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2022

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This study considers the notion of divine simplicity, the idea that God is not a composite of more basic features, and the criticisms by al-Ghazālī (d. 1111) and Alvin Plantinga of that doctrine. What is shown is that most of the argumentation against divine simplicity frequently credited to Plantinga had been nearly perfectly anticipated by al-Ghazālī. Moreover, in responding to a stronger form of divine simplicity, which Avicenna (d. 1037) had presented, than the Thomistic version that Plantinga attacks, Ghazālī develops ‘new’ arguments and moves that are still valuable and informative to the discussion of divine simplicity today.

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Simple is as simple does: Plantinga and Ghazālī on divine simplicity

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2022

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Simplicity’s Deficiency: Al-Ghazali’s Defense of the Divine Attributes and Contemporary Trinitarian Metaphysics

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Simple is as simple does: Plantinga and Ghazālī on divine simplicity

Simple is as simple does: Plantinga and Ghazālī on divine simplicity

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