Vital du Four (c.1260–1327)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
William E. Mann
Keyword(s):  
Absolute Power ◽  
God's Will ◽  
Intrinsic Goodness ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
The Universe

A Franciscan philosopher and theologian, Vital du Four was noted for denying the distinction between a thing’s essence and its existence, for expounding an Augustinian theory of perception and for emphasizing the absolute power and contingency of God’s will in creating the universe. One interpretation of his views holds that created things have no intrinsic goodness, only that which has been conferred upon them by God.

scholarly journals Hakikat Tuhan: Kajian Pemikiran Islam dalam Falsafah Jawa

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 97
Author(s):  
Syarifah Wardah El Firdausy
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Absolute Power ◽  
Concept Of God ◽  
Islamic Thought ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Universe

Islamic thought in the Javanese philosophy of the concept of God begins with the existence of three continuities between (1) the background of Islamization in Indonesia, through cultural approaches, (2) philosophical phrases in the Javanese philosophy as a part of the characteristic Javanese literary works that are educational (didactic) and sublime (piwulang), and (3) the similarity between the concept of tri hita wacana means harmonious relationship of man with God (habluminallah) in Islamic teachings related to the concept of insan kamil. This study uses qualitative methods based on literature study data and descriptive analysis as a whole (integral). The results obtained from this study is the similarity of thinking between the philosophical expressions of Java in the Javanese philosophy with Islamic thought in the verses of the Qur'an as part of the teachings of Islam in understanding the three concepts of the nature of God that is (1) the concept of tan kena kinaya gapa means that God cannot be imagined circumstances and forms, but the absolute power, (2) the concept of Gusti Allah orah sare means God is not sleeping and always awake in every period; Understanding of the concept raises an attitude of being cautious in acting, acting, and fully aware of God's supervision, and (3) the concept of sangkan paran which has an understanding that the beginning of the creation of man and the universe comes from God (sangkan) and the end of creation Man and the universe will return to God (paran).

The Contest on Mount Carmel (1 Kings 18:19–40) as a Reflection of a Religious-Cultural Threat

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-100
Author(s):  
Nadav Na’aman
Keyword(s):  
Persian Period ◽  
Absolute Power ◽  
Divine Power ◽  
Single Author ◽  
Cultural Threat ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
Story Cycle ◽  
1 Kings

Abstract The article suggests that the story of the contest on Mount Carmel (1 Kgs 18:19–40) is a complete literary unit that was written by a single author in the early Persian period and inserted into the deuteronomistic story-cycle of Elijah. The story is entirely legendary and reflects the polemic of a devotee of YHWH against the contemporaneous spread of the Phoenician cult and culture. The attachment of the story to Mount Carmel may reflect the occasion of the establishment of a Tyrian/Sidonian temple on one of the mountain’s peaks, but this hypothesis cannot be verified. The story conveys a clear religious message of the absolute power of YHWH and the worthlessness of all other gods – in particular the Phoenician God Ba‘al – and of the fallacy of the belief in his divine power.

Imagining Sound as the Absolute

2019 ◽  
pp. 15-30
Author(s):  
Saam Trivedi
Keyword(s):  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Scientific Ideas ◽  
The Universe

Saam Trivedi ponders the Sangita Ratnakara by the Ayurveda physician Sarangadeva. In this thirteenth-century manuscript, Sarangadeva asserts that Sound, identical to the Absolute, is the only fundamental thing in the universe and that all other things are illusory or, at best, some derivative or other manifestation of Sound. While the twenty-first century, non-monist Trivedi is critical of this claim, he finds much to be fascinated by, and, in his dissection of the main points of the Sangita Ratnakara, he offers the reader an imagining of sonic monism that, while far-removed from the orthodoxy of today’s acoustics and natural sciences, might one day come to be seen as inspiration for the latest scientific ideas concerning sound.

Ockham, John XXII and the Absolute Power of God

1986 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 205-216 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eugenio Randi
Keyword(s):  
Absolute Power ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
John Xxii ◽  
Power Of God

Trinity Metaphysics

2021 ◽  
pp. 107-116
Author(s):  
Nikita A. Solovyev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Quantum Object ◽  
Material Body ◽  
Modern Cosmology ◽  
Ontological Model ◽  
Mental Space ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
Other World ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Living Being

A ternary ontological model in which the living being is a triad of I – form – substrate is described. I is an intangible subject, contemplating the content of consciousness and controlling the material body, which is the unity of the form and the substrate. The contents of consciousness are connected both with the form of the body, which I contemplate in the inner “mental space” in the form of in­formation, and with the substrate, which embodies the forms of the body and is responsible for sensations and intentions. The problem of control of the material body by the non-material self is solved under the assumption that the human brain is a quantum object. The ternary model of a living being is inscribed in an absolute ontology, in which the Absolute also has a threefold structure and is the unstitched unity of the absolute I, the absolute Form and the absolute Sub­strate. The Absolute creates the other world with its threefold energies, which provides the threefold structure of a living being. The created world arises from the timeless world of the potential possibilities of the Universe, which modern cosmology associates with its wave function. Created entities arise in the process of alienation from the Absolute, resulting in free will.

scholarly journals PERWUJUDAN NILAI AL-BIRR WA AL-TAQWA DALAM KEPEMILIKAN

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Anisa Ilmia
Keyword(s):  
Economic System ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The World ◽  
Socialist Economic ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
Islamic Economic ◽  
Ownership Rights ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Socialist Economic System

ABSTRACTIslamic economics is an economic system that is different from the capitalist economic system and the socialist economic system, one of which is the ownership rights. Islam recognizes the existence of human ownership, but still emphasizes that Allah SWT is the absolute owner of everything include the universe so that what humans have is only a mandate that must be obtained and utilized in accordance with Allah’s rules. Ownership is the integration of the Islamic economic system so that it contains an element of morality that will give birth to the value of the khilafah and the value of al-birr wa al-taqwa (goodness and obedience) in which both values are centered on divine value (Ilahiyah). The realization of these values in ownership has implications for the well-being and economic equalization to achieve “falah” (bliss of the world and the hereafter). Keywords : ownership, morality, value, Islamic economic, obedience

scholarly journals “Misschien is dit de betekenis van deze Schriftpassage.”

1970 ◽  
Vol 63 ◽  
pp. 99-118
Author(s):  
Nienke Roelants
Keyword(s):  
Divine Providence ◽  
Biblical Authority ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
The One ◽  
The Universe

In the early 1540ies G.J. Rheticus wrote an anonymous treatise entitled both Epistola deTerrae Motu and Dissertatio de Hypoth[esibus] Astron[omiae] Copernicanae. In thisletter he discusses why proclaiming the motion of the earth does not need to beconsidered as an impious act incompatible with the words of Holy Scripture. Based onan analysis of authorities mentioned by the author in this letter, I conclude thatRheticus’ strategy on the one hand consists in playing down the importance of thetraditional Aristotelian-Ptolemaic notions on the universe in the field of astronomy andby emphasizing the indirect character of Biblical authority in these matters. On the otherhand, he claims the absolute, immediate authority of mathematics in astronomy bywhich he consequently challenges the traditional medieval hierarchy of sciences.Rheticus considers the achievements of Copernicus to be part of divine providence.

Tennant's Struggle with a “Desperate Task”

1942 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 199-208
Author(s):  
Graham Frisbee
Keyword(s):  
William James ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Do So

In his essay, “On God and the Absolute,” F. H. Bradley declares that the “assertor of an imperfect God is, whether he knows it or not, face to face with a desperate task or a forlorn alternative. He must try to show (how I cannot tell) that the entire rest of the Universe, outside his limited God, is known to be still weaker and more limited. Or he must appeal to us to follow our Leader blindly and, for all we know, to a common and overwhelming defeat.” The appeal of the second course, even when it is set forth in the spirited and heroic manner of William James, cannot survive a full realization of what is involved in such a prospect. It is not surprising, therefore, to find that most of the more sober-minded theologians who hold the idea of a limited God attempt to do so in the first form suggested by Bradley. F. R. Tennant belongs to this group. And it is his attempt to accomplish the “desperate task” that we propose to examine.

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