Averroes And The Metaphysics Of Causation
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Author | : Barry S. Kogan |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 1985-01-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780887060632 |
Averroes and the Metaphysics of Causation examines the controversial causation issue. That causes produce their effects and can be known to do so is the view that Averroes defends in his Tahafut Al-Tahafut, where he summarizes and evaluates the debates about causation--debates that took place over several generations between the philosophers and the theologians of medieval Islam. Drawing from his Tahafut, his commentaries, and other writings, Kogan shows that Averroes' discussion of causation represents a dialogue across the generations and a rich contribution to the history of the causal controversy. Averroes responds to al-Ghazali's proto-Humean critique of the philosophers' account which treats causation as an entailment relation. In this response Averroes develops an independent position that is of philosophical interest because it clearly anticipates many of the contemporary responses to Hume associated with the singularist position. Building on this analysis, Kogan resolves many long-standing paradoxes in Averroes' treatment of miracles, eternal creation, God's causal knowing, and the theory of emanation.
Author | : Barry S. Kogan |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1985-09-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1438409451 |
Averroes and the Metaphysics of Causation examines the controversial causation issue. That causes produce their effects and can be known to do so is the view that Averroes defends in his Tahafut Al-Tahafut, where he summarizes and evaluates the debates about causation—debates that took place over several generations between the philosophers and the theologians of medieval Islam. Drawing from his Tahafut, his commentaries, and other writings, Kogan shows that Averroes' discussion of causation represents a dialogue across the generations and a rich contribution to the history of the causal controversy. Averroes responds to al-Ghazali's proto-Humean critique of the philosophers' account which treats causation as an entailment relation. In this response Averroes develops an independent position that is of philosophical interest because it clearly anticipates many of the contemporary responses to Hume associated with the singularist position. Building on this analysis, Kogan resolves many long-standing paradoxes in Averroes' treatment of miracles, eternal creation, God's causal knowing, and the theory of emanation.
Author | : Catarina Belo |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2007-02-28 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9047419154 |
This book examines the question whether medieval Muslim philosophers Avicenna (Arabic Ibn Sīnā 980-1037) and Averroes (Arabic Ibn Rushd 1126-1198) are determinists. With a focus on physics and metaphysics it studies their views on chance events in nature, as well as matter, in particular prime matter, and divine providence. In addition it sets their positions against the historical/philosophical background that influenced their response, the Greco-Arabic philosophical tradition - Aristotelian and Neoplatonic - on the one hand, and the tradition of Islamic theology (kalām) on the other. In comparing their philosophical systems, it lays emphasis on the way in which Avicenna and Averroes use these traditions to offer an original answer to the problem of determinism.
Author | : Peter Adamson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1107114888 |
Engages with all aspects of Averroes' philosophy, from his thinking on Aristotle to his influence on Islamic law.
Author | : Averroës |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Islam |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Majid Fakhry |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2013-10-15 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1134541546 |
Originally published in 1958. Occasionalism is generally associated in the history of philosophy with the name of Malébranche . But long before this time, the Muslim Theologians of the ninth and tenth centuries had developed an occasionalist metaphysics of atoms and accidents. Arguing that a number of distinctively Islamic concepts such as fatalism and the surrender of personal endeavour cannot be fully understood except in the perspective of the occasionalist world view of Islam, the volume also discusses the attacks on Occasionalism made by Averroes and St. Thomas Aquinas.
Author | : Daniel D. De Haan |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 2020-08-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004434526 |
In Necessary Existence and the Doctrine of Being in Avicenna’s Metaphysics of the Healing Daniel De Haan explicates the central argument of Avicenna’s metaphysical masterpiece. De Haan argues that the most fundamental primary notion in Avicenna’s metaphysics is neither being nor thing but is the necessary (wājib), which Avicenna employs to demonstrate the existence and true-nature of the divine necessary existence in itself. This conclusion is established through a systematic investigation of how Avicenna’s theory of a demonstrative science is employed in the organization of his metaphysical science into its subject, first principles, and objects of enquiry. The book examines the essential role the first principles as primary notions and primary hypotheses play in the central argument of Avicenna’s metaphysics. See inside the book.
Author | : Ahmed Alwishah |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2015-09-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107101735 |
Examines Aristotle's vast influence upon the medieval Arabic philosophical tradition and includes contributions from every discipline within his corpus.
Author | : Averroës |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 389 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3110220016 |
The series is devoted to the study of scientific and philosophical texts from the Classical and the Islamic world handed down in Arabic. Through critical text editions and monographs, it provides access to ancient scientific inquiry as it developed in a continuous tradition from Antiquity to the modern period. All editions are accompanied by translations and philological and explanatory notes.
Author | : Peter Adamson |
Publisher | : Warburg Institute |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Islam |
ISBN | : 9780854811540 |
A collection of 13 papers by leading scholars that looks at philosophical literature of the 12th century. It features several contributors who discuss the most famous thinker of the period, the great commentator Averroes. It also includes figures such as: al-Ghazali, Ibn Tufayl, 'Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi, Abu l-Barakat al-Baghdadi, and Suhrawardi.