Nicholas Allan Aubin

Power and Possibility in Early Arabic Philosophy (eBook, PDF)

Three Innovators Between Philoponus and Avicenna

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

'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): Ab? l-?ayr Ibn Suw?r (d. after 1017), Ab? al-?asan al-??mir? (d. 992), and Ab? Sahl al-Mas??? (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.

Nicholas Allan Aubin, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co.KG
• Seitenzahl: 295
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783111325088
• Artikelnr.: 70320453

Autorenporträt

Nicholas Allan Aubin, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK.