A Stady of A New Cosmological Argument Based on The Possible Worlds and Weak Version of Principle of Sufficient Reason

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
Kazem raghebi 1
mohammad mohammadrezaie 2
1 PhD Candidate in Philosophy of Religion at University of Tehran
2 Professor at Tehran University
10.30470/phm.2020.38502
Abstract
One of the most important arguments for the existence of god is the cosmological argument. Traditional developments of cosmological argument, which are based on the casual principle and principle of sufficient reason, have always faced many challenges. Hence, this argument has been constantly evolving throughout its history. "a new cosmological argument" is one of the contemporary versions of this argument, which is formulated to get rid of these challenges. This version attempts to provide a different and logical version of the cosmological argument, and this do by using the theories of possible worlds, modal notions and the theory of weak version of principle of sufficient reason. According to this new version of the cosmological argument, the necessity of God's existence for the universe is proved without the need for the strong version of principle of sufficient reason and without the need to prove the casual principle. Consequently, many of the traditional criticisms will be no objection to this argument. In this article, we will first explain the technical terms of this argument, then describe its formulation, and in the end we will discuss some of the most important critiques of this argument.
Keywords
argument for the existence of god
possible worlds
weak version of principle of sufficient reason
modal notions
New Cosmological Argument
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