Power And Possibility In Early Arabic Philosophy
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Power and Possibility in Early Arabic Philosophy
Author | : Nicholas Allan Aubin |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2023-12-31 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9783111325088 |
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"The world is a finite body, and therefore has finite power." John Philoponus is remembered for using this Aristotelian premise to break ranks with Aristotle and argue that the world is not everlasting. This investigation reconsiders Philoponus’s arguments from finite power, and then explores the aftermath of this line of thinking in the works of three lesser-known Arabic intellectuals active in the generation before Avicenna (d. 1037): Abū l-Ḫayr Ibn Suwār (d. after 1017), Abū al-Ḥasan al-ʿĀmirī (d. 992), and Abū Sahl al-Masīḥī (d. after 1025). Each engaged with this dictum in unique and novel ways, and in so doing anticipated a number of central features of Avicenna’s writings. The history of this argument is of crucial importance for understanding the evolution of natural philosophy and metaphysics in this formative period, away from tedious and simplistic arguments about creation and towards a more robust modal ontology based on intrinsic and extrinsic necessity.
Power and Possibility in Early Arabic Philosophy
Author | : Nicholas Allan Aubin |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 399 |
Release | : 2023-12-31 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9783111325132 |
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"The world is a finite body, and therefore has finite power." John Philoponus is remembered for using this Aristotelian premise to break ranks with Aristotle and argue that the world is not everlasting. This investigation reconsiders Philoponus’s arguments from finite power, and then explores the aftermath of this line of thinking in the works of three lesser-known Arabic intellectuals active in the generation before Avicenna (d. 1037): Abū l-Ḫayr Ibn Suwār (d. after 1017), Abū al-Ḥasan al-ʿĀmirī (d. 992), and Abū Sahl al-Masīḥī (d. after 1025). Each engaged with this dictum in unique and novel ways, and in so doing anticipated a number of central features of Avicenna’s writings. The history of this argument is of crucial importance for understanding the evolution of natural philosophy and metaphysics in this formative period, away from tedious and simplistic arguments about creation and towards a more robust modal ontology based on intrinsic and extrinsic necessity.
Studies on Early Arabic Philosophy
Author | : Peter Adamson |
Publsiher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2023-04-21 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781000946963 |
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Philosophy in the Islamic world from the 9th to 11th centuries was characterized by an engagement with Greek philosophical works in Arabic translation. This volume collects papers on both the Greek philosophers in their new Arabic guise, and on reactions to the translation movement in the period leading up to Avicenna. In a first section, Adamson provides general studies of the ’formative’ period of philosophy in the Islamic world, discussing the Arabic reception of Aristotle and of his commentators. He also argues that this formative period was characterized not just by the use of Hellenic materials, but also by a productive exchange of ideas between Greek-inspired ’philosophy (falsafa)’ and Islamic theology (kalÄm). A second section considers the underappreciated philosophical impact of Galen, using Arabic sources to understand Galen himself, and exploring the thought of the doctor and philosopher al-RÄzī, who drew on Galen as a chief inspiration. A third section looks at al-FÄrÄbī and the so-called ’Baghdad school’ of the 10th century, examining their reaction to Aristotle’s Metaphysics, his epistemology, and his famous deterministic ’sea battle’ argument. A final group of papers is devoted to Avicenna’s philosophy, which marks the beginning of a new era of philosophy in the Islamic world.
Classical Arabic Philosophy
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Hackett Publishing |
Total Pages | : 462 |
Release | : 2007-03-15 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781603840330 |
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This volume introduces the major classical Arabic philosophers through substantial selections from the key works (many of which appear in translation for the first time here) in each of the fields--including logic, philosophy of science, natural philosophy, metaphysics, ethics, and politics--to which they made significant contributions. An extensive Introduction situating the works within their historical, cultural, and philosophical contexts offers support to students approaching the subject for the first time, as well as to instructors with little or no formal training in Arabic thought. A glossary, select bibliography, and index are also included.
Encountering Others Understanding Ourselves in Medieval and Early Modern Thought
Author | : Nicolas Faucher,Virpi Mäkinen |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2022-12-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9783110748802 |
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Recent research has challenged our view of the Abrahamic religious traditions as unilaterally intolerant and incapable of recognizing otherness in all its diversity and richness; but a diachronic and comparative study of how these traditions deal with otherness is yet to appear. This volume aims to contribute to such a study by presenting different treatments of otherness in medieval and early modern thought. Part I: Altruism deals with attitudes and behaviors that benefit others, regardless of its motives. We deal with the social rights and emotions as well as the moral obligations that the very existence of other human beings, whatever their characteristics, creates for a community. Part II: Religious recognition and toleration considers identity, toleration and mutual recognition created by the existence of religious or ethnic otherness in a given social, religious or political community. Part III: Evil deals with religious otherness that is considered evil and rejected such as heretics and malevolent, demonic entities. The volume will ultimately inform the reader on the nature of religious toleration (including beliefs and doctrines, even emotions) as well as of the self-definition of religious communities when encountering and defining otherness in different ways.
Renaissance Averroism and Its Aftermath Arabic Philosophy in Early Modern Europe
Author | : Anna Akasoy,Guido Giglioni |
Publsiher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2012-12-13 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9789400752405 |
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While the transmission of Greek philosophy and science via the Muslim world to western Europe in the Middle Ages has been closely scrutinized, the fate of the Arabic philosophical and scientific legacy in later centuries has received less attention, a fault this volume aims to correct. The authors in this collection discuss in particular the radical ideas associated with Averroism that are attributed to the Aristotle commentator Ibn Rushd (1126-1198) and challenge key doctrines of the Abrahamic religions. This volume examines what happened to Averroes’s philosophy during the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Did early modern thinkers really no longer pay any attention to the Commentator? Were there undercurrents of Averroism after the sixteenth century? How did Western authors in this period contextualise Averroes and Arabic philosophy within their own cultural heritage? How different was the Averroes they created as a philosopher in a European tradition from Ibn Rushd, the theologian, jurist and philosopher of the Islamic tradition?
Classical Arabic Philosophy
Author | : Peter Adamson |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : UOM:39015069034331 |
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Explores a range of sources for texts from the classical period of Arabic philosophy, and also the influence exerted by these texts. This volume focuses on the influences felt by, and exerted by, the four main philosophers of this period: al-Kindi, al-Farabi, Avicenna, and Averroes.
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Science and Technology in Islam
Author | : Salim Ayduz |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 1149 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780199812578 |
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The main reference source for questions of Islamic philosophy, science, and technology amongst Western engaged readers and academics in general and legal researchers in particular.