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''The Kalām Cosmological Argument'' (KCA) is a book written by William Lane Craig. It comprises a contemporary defense of the Kalām cosmological argument. The book purports to establish the existence of God based upon the alleged metaphysical impossibility of an infinite regress of past events. According to the KCA, given that an infinite temporal regress is metaphysically impossible and that everything that begins to exist has a cause of its existence. In a further analysis Craig's book discloses that this cause is a personal creator who changelessly and independently willed the beginning of the universe.〔Guminski, A. T. (The Kalam Cosmological Argument: The Question of the Metaphysical Possibility of an Infinite Set of Real Entities ), Philo, Volume 5, Number 2.〕〔Craig, W. L.(1979). ''The Kalām Cosmological Argument'' (1st ed.). London: McMillan Press〕〔Morriston, W. (), ( A Critique of the Kalam Cosmological Argument ), God Matters: Readings in the Philosophy of Religion, Raymond Martin and Christopher Bernard (eds), (Longman, 2002), 95-108〕〔Morriston, W. (Causes and Beginnings in the Kalam Argument: Reply to Craig ), Faith and Philosophy, Vol. 19, No. 2 (April 2002), 233-244〕 ==Contents== The book is divided into two parts. *Part I: Al-Kindi, Saadia and Al-Ghazali. *Part II: A modern defence of the Kalām cosmological argument. (Contains two appendices) * *Appendix 1: The Kalām cosmological argument and Zeno's paradoxes. * *Appendix 2: The Kalām cosmological argument and the thesis of Kant’s first antinomy. Part I provides a brief history of the Kalām cosmological argument as stated by the Kalām tradition, with special attention to al-Kindi, Saadia and al-Ghāzāli. Part II moves to defend in length the substance of the argument. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Kalām Cosmological Argument」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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