Thursday, July 09, 2009

God Exists for No Other

God has no ultimate cause.
The ultimate cause of a being is the ultimate reason why that being exists.
Yet God does not exist for the sake of any other being; he exists for the sake of his own perfection, which is both the cause and the consequence of his existence.

- Ibn Sina, “al-Risalat al-Arshiya”

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