Al-Ghazali on power, causation, and 'acquisition'.(Abu-hamid al-Ghazali)

Philosophy East and West | January 1, 2007| | Copyright

It is a fundamental doctrine of the Abrahamic religions, following from the belief in God as the creator, that He is the primary cause of all natural phenomena. Some, however, have gone further, to claim that God is the only cause. Consequently, there are no genuine created, or secondary, causes. The Western tradition has coined the term 'occasionalism' for this doctrine, according to which all apparent instances of secondary causation are just that--instances of merely apparent, or occasional, causation. The idea behind this term, apparently, is that when a natural event is ...

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