Sina Salari Khoram

Good, Evil, and Holistic Purposivism: Avicenna’s Providential God Reconsidered

This article develops an alternative reading of Avicenna’s conception of providence. I first examine whether he affirms the traditional theistic attributes of omniscience, omnipotence, and omnibenevolence that ground the standard view of providence, arguing that he implicitly denies them and thus renders his argume...