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The Argument of ‘the Formation of the Pairs’; A Critical Study of Fakhr-e Razi and Khajehe Nasir's Theory of the Correlatives (motazayefan), Relying on the Rationality of the Infallibles’ Narrations

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
habibullah daneshshahraki 1
Mostafa Malekshahi sefat 2
1 Department of Islamic Philosophy and Theology, Faculty of Theology, University of Qom
2 Ph.D. Student, University of Qom, Qom, Iran
05.103
Abstract
The present article intends to present a new and unprecedented argument to prove monotheism by reflecting on the existential relationship between two correlative (motazayef) matters and how they are originated and evolved in the outside world. For this purpose, I first quote and critique two exclusive theories in this regard, namely the theory of Fakhr-e Razi and the theory of Khajeh Nasir, and then, in the light of the rationality of the Infallibles’ narrations, I present a third theory that includes a new and innovative argument  in proving monotheism. Thus I first argue that the external existence of two correlative matters always requires a circular reasoning, but the realization of a circular reasoning entails impossibility only if it is the result of a subjectivity of the type "making something from something", but if it is the result of a subjectivity of the type "making something not from a thing", it will not entail any impossibility. Thus I will conclude that the mere external existence of correlative matters implies a subjective existence; an agent who is the creator not from a thing. Then I will show, using four implication eliminations, that whoever is a creator not from a thing, will be the one who has no second.
Keywords
Argument
monotheism
correlative
formation of the pairs
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