William Lane Craig has revived interest in the medieval kalām argument to the point where it is now one of the most discussed arguments for God’s existence in the secondary literature. Still, the reception of Craig’s argument among philosophers of religion has been mostly critical. In the interest of developing an argument that more philosophers of religion would be inclined to support, I will lay the philosophical groundwork for a new kalām cosmological argument that, in contrast with Craig’s argument, does not adopt such controversial positions as the dynamic theory of time and the metaphysical impossibility of an actual infinite.
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机译:威廉·莱恩·克雷格(William Lane Craig)重新激发了人们对中世纪卡拉姆(i)的论点的兴趣,以至现在它已成为二手文学中关于神的存在的讨论最多的论点之一。尽管如此,宗教哲学家对克雷格论点的接受仍然是至关重要的。为了发展一种观点,即更多的宗教哲学家将倾向于支持这一论点,我将为新的卡拉姆宇宙论论证奠定哲学基础,该论证与克雷格的论证相反,不采用像动态论这样有争议的立场。时间理论和实际无限的形而上学不可能。
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