HoP 173 - For the Sake of Argument - Fakhr al-Din al-Razi
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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The Fundamental Nature of Self-Awareness
Ar-Hazi: Avicenna's most contentious ideas about God concerned divine thought. He tried to show that God is a perfect intellect whose unchanging thought is directed primarily at itself as in Aristotle, he says. Ar-Hazi challenges each step of Avicenna’s attempt to show that the necessary existent is to be identified with God.
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