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Chance and Determinism in Avicenna and Averroes

Chance and Determinism in Avicenna and Averroes

by Catarina Belo
Hardback
Publication Date: 23/02/2007

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This book examines the question whether medieval Muslim philosophers Avicenna (Arabic Ibn Sina 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 (kalam) 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.
ISBN:
9789004155879
9789004155879
Category:
Oriental & Indian philosophy
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
23-02-2007
Language:
English
Publisher:
Brill
Country of origin:
Netherlands
Pages:
264
Dimensions (mm):
235x155x21mm
Weight:
0.57kg

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