Power And Possibility In Early Arabic Philosophy

Author : Nicholas Allan Aubin
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 296 pages
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Release : 2023-12-31
Category : 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.

Author : Nicholas Allan Aubin
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783111325132

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Power and Possibility in Early Arabic Philosophy by Nicholas Allan Aubin Pdf

"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.

Author : Peter Adamson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000946963

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Studies on Early Arabic Philosophy by Peter Adamson Pdf

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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 462 pages
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Release : 2007-03-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781603840330

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Classical Arabic Philosophy by Anonim Pdf

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.

Author : Nicolas Faucher,Virpi Mäkinen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 300 pages
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Release : 2022-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110748802

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Encountering Others, Understanding Ourselves in Medieval and Early Modern Thought by Nicolas Faucher,Virpi Mäkinen Pdf

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.

Author : Anna Akasoy,Guido Giglioni
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789400752405

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Renaissance Averroism and Its Aftermath: Arabic Philosophy in Early Modern Europe by Anna Akasoy,Guido Giglioni Pdf

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?

Author : Peter Adamson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015069034331

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Classical Arabic Philosophy by Peter Adamson Pdf

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.

Author : Salim Ayduz,Caner Dagli
Publisher : Oxford Encyclopedias of Islami
Page : 1149 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199812578

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The Oxford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Science, and Technology in Islam by Salim Ayduz,Caner Dagli Pdf

"The Oxford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Science and Technology in Islam (OEPSTI) builds upon the celebrated Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World and brings together the rich history of philosophical and scientific disciplines in Islam over the last fourteen centuries."--Preface, v. 1, p. xvii.

Author : Sayeh Meisami
Publisher : Springer
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319711928

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Knowledge and Power in the Philosophies of Ḥamīd al-Dīn Kirmānī and Mullā Ṣadrā Shīrāzī by Sayeh Meisami Pdf

This book is a comparative study of two major Shīʿī thinkers Ḥamīd al-Dīn Kirmānī from the Fatimid Egypt and Mullā Ṣadrā from the Safavid Iran, demonstrating the mutual empowerment of discourses on knowledge formation and religio-political authority in certain Ismaʿili and Twelver contexts. The book investigates concepts, narratives, and arguments that have contributed to the generation and development of the discourse on the absolute authority of the imam and his representatives. To demonstrate this, key passages from primary texts in Arabic and Persian are translated and closely analyzed to highlight the synthesis of philosophical, Sufi, theological, and scriptural discourses. The book also discusses the discursive influence of Naṣīr al-Dīn Ṭūsī as a key to the transmission of Ismaʿili narratives of knowledge and authority to later Shīʿī philosophy and its continuation to modern and contemporary times particularly in the narrative of the guardianship of the jurist in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Author : Dov M. Gabbay,John Woods
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 727 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008-03-14
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780080560854

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Mediaeval and Renaissance Logic by Dov M. Gabbay,John Woods Pdf

Starting at the very beginning with Aristotle's founding contributions, logic has been graced by several periods in which the subject has flourished, attaining standards of rigour and conceptual sophistication underpinning a large and deserved reputation as a leading expression of human intellectual effort. It is widely recognized that the period from the mid-19th century until the three-quarter mark of the century just past marked one of these golden ages, a period of explosive creativity and transforming insights. It has been said that ignorance of our history is a kind of amnesia, concerning which it is wise to note that amnesia is an illness. It would be a matter for regret, if we lost contact with another of logic's golden ages, one that greatly exceeds in reach that enjoyed by mathematical symbolic logic. This is the period between the 11th and 16th centuries, loosely conceived of as the Middle Ages. The logic of this period does not have the expressive virtues afforded by the symbolic resources of uninterpreted calculi, but mediaeval logic rivals in range, originality and intellectual robustness a good deal of the modern record. The range of logic in this period is striking, extending from investigation of quantifiers and logic consequence to inquiries into logical truth; from theories of reference to accounts of identity; from work on the modalities to the stirrings of the logic of relations, from theories of meaning to analyses of the paradoxes, and more. While the scope of mediaeval logic is impressive, of greater importance is that nearly all of it can be read by the modern logician with at least some prospect of profit. The last thing that mediaeval logic is, is a museum piece. Mediaeval and Renaissance Logic is an indispensable research tool for anyone interested in the development of logic, including researchers, graduate and senior undergraduate students in logic, history of logic, mathematics, history of mathematics, computer science and AI, linguistics, cognitive science, argumentation theory, philosophy, and the history of ideas. - Provides detailed and comprehensive chapters covering the entire range of modal logic - Contains the latest scholarly discoveries and interpretative insights that answer many questions in the field of logic

Author : Nicholas Rescher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:470162852

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Studies in Arabic Philosophy by Nicholas Rescher Pdf

Author : Saloua Chatti
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783031056291

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Women's Contemporary Readings of Medieval (and Modern) Arabic Philosophy by Saloua Chatti Pdf

This book explores a large variety of topics involved in Arabic philosophy. It examines concepts and issues relating to logic and mathematics, as well as metaphysics, ethics and aesthetics. These topics are all studied by different Arabic philosophers and scientists from different periods ranging from the 9th century to the 20th century, and are representative of the Arabic tradition. This is the first book dealing with the Arabic thought and philosophy and written only by women. The book brings together the work and contributions of an international group of female scholars and researchers specialized in the history of Arabic logic, philosophy and mathematics. Although all authors are women, the book does not enter into any kind of feminist trend. It simply highlights the contributions of female scholars in order to make them available to the large community of researchers interested in Arabic philosophy and to bring to the fore the presence and representativeness of female scholars in the field.

Author : Charles Butterworth,Kessel
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004451926

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The Introduction of Arabic Philosophy into Europe by Charles Butterworth,Kessel Pdf

The contributors to this volume are noted scholars from Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Morocco, Poland, the Soviet Union, and Spain. Each has stepped somewhat outside of his or her usual academic interest to consider how the writings of a particular Arab philosopher or of a group of Arab philosophers were introduced into a particular European university. Their essays identify the European professor or scholar who first introduced the works of an Arab philosopher into his university, speak about the works themselves, and explore what prompted the original European interest in the particular philosopher or philosophers. Thus, by explaining how medieval European universities first approached Arab philosophy, these papers contribute to the growing interest in the curriculum and general life of those important institutions.

Author : Henrik Lagerlund,Professor of the History of Philosophy Henrik Lagerlund,Associate Professor of Philosophy Benjamin Hill,Benjamin Hill,Professor of Philosophy of Science and Metaphysics Stathis Psillos,Stathis Psillos
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198869528

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Reconsidering Causal Powers by Henrik Lagerlund,Professor of the History of Philosophy Henrik Lagerlund,Associate Professor of Philosophy Benjamin Hill,Benjamin Hill,Professor of Philosophy of Science and Metaphysics Stathis Psillos,Stathis Psillos Pdf

Causal powers are returning to the forefront of realist philosophy of science to fill explanatory gaps seen to be left by reductivist and eliminativist accounts of previous generations. This volume revisits the fortunes of causal powers as scientific explanatory principles across history to foster deeper discussions about their metaphysical natures

Author : Susanne Bobzien
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198866732

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Determinism, Freedom, and Moral Responsibility by Susanne Bobzien Pdf

"This volume assembles nine of the author's essays on determinism, freedom and moral responsibility in Western antiquity, ranging from Aristotle via Epicureans and Stoics to the 3rd century. It is representative of the author's overall scholarship on the topic, much of which is devoted to showing that what commonly counts as 'the problem of free-will and determinism' is noticeably distinct from the issues the ancients discussed. It is true that one main component of the ancient discourse concerned the question how moral accountability can be consistently combined with certain causal factors that impact human behaviour. However, it is not true that the ancient problems involved the questions of the compatibility of causal determinism with our ability to do otherwise or with free will. Instead, we encounter questions about human rational and autonomous agency and their compatibility with preceding causes, external or internal; with external impediments; with divine predetermination and theological questions; with physical theories like atomism and continuum theory, and with sciences more generally; with elements that determine character development from childhood, such as nature and nurture; with epistemic features such as ignorance of circumstances; with necessity and modal theories generally; with folk theories of fatalism; and also with questions of how human autonomous agency is related to moral development, to virtue and wisdom, to blame and praise. These questions were all debated without reference to freedom to do otherwise or free-will-at least in Classical and Hellenistic philosophy. This volume considers all of these questions to some extent"--