RE: A Necessary Being?
August 29, 2016 at 4:50 pm
(This post was last modified: August 29, 2016 at 4:52 pm by TheMuslim.)
(August 29, 2016 at 4:47 pm)paulpablo Wrote:(August 29, 2016 at 4:13 pm)TheMuslim Wrote: Is there anything wrong with a Necessary Being per se?
Is there really anything incoherent or illogical about the very concept of a Necessary Being? In other words, can anyone come up with reasons why a Necessary Being is impossible? Or have we now accepted that it is certainly possible for there to be a Necessary Being?
By "Necessary Being," I mean something that cannot not exist. In other words, "existence" is in the very essence/definition of that thing.
I don't know all the ins and outs of existence so I'd have to say I don't know the answer to the question.
I was considering not replying at all but that might look ignorant.
You don't have be omniscient to find problems with philosophical concepts. Kant, Hume, and many other philosophers have found logical problems in many concepts. So I was wondering if there was any inherently logical problems with the concept of a Necessary Being.
