
HoP 165 - Neither the Time Nor the Place - Hasdai Crescas
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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The Argument for God's Existence
Kraskus offers two methods for proving God's existence. The easy method is to presuppose that the cosmos began in time, and infer from this that such a cosmos would need a creator. But all this is merely a skirmish before the main battle, which is fought over the premises used by my monadies to demonstrate what he thinks we are commanded to believe. To his credit, Kraskus is very forthcoming about the principles that need to be accepted or established if this argument is to work. He counts twenty-six of them, and sets them out at the beginning of the second part of his guide for the perplexed.
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