UID:
almahu_9949701940602882
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9789047419150
Series Statement:
Brill eBook titles 2007
Content:
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.
Note:
Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Oxford, 2004.
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Preliminary Material /
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Introduction /
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Chapter One. Avicenna On Chance /
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Chapter Two. Avicenna On Matter /
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Chapter Three. Avicenna On Celestial Causation And Providence /
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Chapter Four. Averroes On Chance /
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Chapter Five. Averroes On Matter And Necessity /
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Chapter Six. Averroes On Celestial Causation And Providence /
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Conclusion /
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Bibliography /
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General Index /
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Index Of Main Passages /
Additional Edition:
Chance and determinism in Avicenna and Averroes ISBN 9789004155879 (alk. paper)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9004155872 (alk. paper)
Language:
English
