Hossein Ejtehadian
Abstract
Physics not only could change our philosophical and theological world view, but also itself is based on philosophical and theological presuppositions and perspectives. Quantum mechanics beside the failure of positivists viewpoint in twentieth century deepened the relations of physics and philosophical ...
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Physics not only could change our philosophical and theological world view, but also itself is based on philosophical and theological presuppositions and perspectives. Quantum mechanics beside the failure of positivists viewpoint in twentieth century deepened the relations of physics and philosophical and theological world views. There has been so many efforts to maintain the idea of intentional or special divine action in the world, and do so in a variety of ways, all of which heavily engage quantum theory. Quantum mechanics events have been so amazing and confusing that resulted to different interpretations. The Quantum mechanics relation to theology or metaphysic entirely depended to the interpretation of physical phenomenon and affected from the entailments of physics about the real world. In this article we will integrate David Bohm’s interpretation of Quantum mechanics and Sadra’s philosophy to explain special divine action in the world.
Hossein Ejtehadian; rasool rasoolipoor
Volume 7, Issue 2 , February 2018, , Pages 55-80
Abstract
Divine action in the world is one of the important problematic questions in contemporary philosophy of religion. After new inventions in modern physics during 20’th century some of the scholars claimed that in spite of classical physics in which physical laws constrain divine actions, in modern ...
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Divine action in the world is one of the important problematic questions in contemporary philosophy of religion. After new inventions in modern physics during 20’th century some of the scholars claimed that in spite of classical physics in which physical laws constrain divine actions, in modern physics, uncertainty principle could explain and justify God intervention in the world. But quantum mechanics had produced big challenges in ontology and had not straightforward metaphysics and resulted to different interpretations, each suggesting different way to explain divine actions. Bohmian interpretation of quantum mechanics regarding his special metaphysical ideas like implicate order, holomovement and holism presenting novel perspective on this issue. This article investigate relation between Bohmian interpretation of quantum mechanics and divine actions in the world and shows its capacities on this issue.
