Celia Kathryn Hatherly

Avicenna on the Necessity of the Actual

His Interpretation of Four Aristotelian Arguments

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Produktbeschreibung

In his magnum opus, The Healing, Avicenna took four Aristotelian arguments and used them to prove a very un-Aristotelian conclusion: that the cosmos is both created and eternal. This book explains how Avicenna used his distinctive understanding of possibility and necessity to do so.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. September 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 450g
• ISBN-13: 9781666904482
• ISBN-10: 1666904481
• Artikelnr.: 64267284

Autorenporträt

Celia Kathryn Hatherly is assistant professor of philosophy in the Humanities Department at MacEwan University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part One: God as The First Cause of Existence
Chapter One: The Modal Distinction in the Proof from the Metaphysics of the
Healing
Chapter Two: The Modal Distinction in the Proof in the Metaphysics of the
Salvation
Part Two: God as The Ultimate Final Cause
Chapter Three: The First Efficient Cause as the Ultimate Final Cause
Chapter Four: The Role of the Proof from Motion
Part Three: The Eternity of the World
Chapter Five: Material Potency as a Principle of Change
Chapter Six: The Eternal and the Generable