Power and Possibility in Early Arabic Philosophy
Three Innovators Between Philoponus and Avicenna
Series: Scientia Graeco-Arabica; 37;
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher De Gruyter
- Date of Publication 31 December 2023
- ISBN 9783111324920
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages295 pages
- Size 240x170 mm
- Weight 618 g
- Language English 525
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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.
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