, as did the more accomplished students, to compile a book encompassing the questions of foundational theology and gathering the original insights of discerning minds.

He continued with the rest of his remarks. Yet despite these words, and the philosophical and theological discussions contained in his work, he raises this difficult objection to his method of attaining knowledge of the Necessary Existent—a method for which he offers no alternative. He acknowledges that the objection is difficult and that he has no solution to it. But whoever abandons sound, clear, conclusive, direct, and evident paths for long and remote ones cannot be assured of avoiding such an impasse. Scholars have drawn attention to this more than once, explaining that innovated paths are either hazardous because of their length and subtlety, or unsound. Nevertheless, whoever follows a perilous path, provided that it is sound, may still be hoped to reach the desired goal.

But when these people did what they did and began using the conclusions of their methods to oppose