Son yıllarda, William Lane Craig’in geliştirdiği Kelam Kozmolojik Argümanı, Tanrı’nın varlığını savunan en popüler argümanlardan biri haline gelmiştir. Bu durum, aynı zamanda yoğun eleştirileri de beraberinde getirmiştir. Kelam Kozmolojik Argümanı’na yöneltilen modern itirazlardan biri Alex Malpass ve Wes Morriston tarafından ortaya konulmuştur. Bu eleştiride, Aristoteles’in “bilfiil sonsuz” tanımına göre, başlangıcı olmayan bir geçmişin bilfiil bir sonsuz olmadığı, ancak William Lane Craig’in bilfiil ve bilkuvve sonsuz kavramları ile onun zaman ontolojisi kabul edildiğinde, hem geçmiş hem de gelecek ikisi birden ya bilfiil ya da bilkuvve olarak sonsuz olmaktadır. Bu ise Craig için istenmeyen bir sonuçtur. Bu çalışmada Aristoteles’in bilfiil sonsuz tanımı üzerinden bile geçmişin sonlu olduğu yönünde bir savunma yapılabileceğini öne sürüyorum.
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A Beginning without End: An Aristotelian Defence of the Kalam
Yıl 2024,
Cilt: 65 Sayı: 2, 993 - 1004, 30.11.2024
In recent times, William Lane Craig’s version of the Kalam Cosmological Argument has become one of the most, if not the most popular arguments for the existence of God. Consequently, it has also invited extensive criticism. One of the key modern objections to the Kalam has been made by Alex Malpass and Wes Morriston, who argue that on Aristotle’s definition of an actual infinite, the beginningless past is not an actual infinite, whereas, if one were to accept William Lane Craig’s definition of actual and potential infinites as well as his temporal ontology, then both the future and the past are either actually or potentially infinite, which is an undesirable consequence for Craig. In this paper I argue that one can argue for the finitude of the past even on Aristotle’s definition of an actual infinite.
Craig, William Lane. Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics. 3rd ed. Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books, 2008.
Falcon, Andrea. "Aristotle on Causality." In The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2023 Edition), edited by Edward N. Zalta and Uri Nodelman. URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2023/entries/aristotle-causality/.
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Sheikh, Hayyan. “A Beginning Without End: An Aristotelian Defence of the Kalam”. Ankara Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi Dergisi 65, sy. 2 (Kasım 2024): 993-1004. https://doi.org/10.33227/auifd.1511163.