Buch, Englisch, Band 124, 344 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 658 g
Reihe: Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies
Ontology and Aetiology from Avicenna to Fakhr Al-Dīn Al-Rāzī
Buch, Englisch, Band 124, 344 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 658 g
Reihe: Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies
ISBN: 978-90-04-68486-7
Verlag: Brill
The book approaches the conceptual background of Avicenna's account of efficient causality, outlining the positions held by him and his early interpreters (eleventh and twelfth centuries), as well as the arguments that support those positions. The first aim of the book is to show the systematic unity of the Avicennian doctrines on ontology and aetiology, highlighting the threads connecting the two. The second aim is to investigate Avicenna’s influence over his interpreters, assessing continuities and discontinuities.
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Introduction
1 Avicenna
2 The Avicennians: Bahmanyar, Lawkari, Khayyam, and Sawi
3 The Anti-Avicennians: Ghazali, Ibn al-Mala?imi, Shahrastani, Mas?udi, and Ibn Ghaylan
4 The Innovators: Abu l-Barakat and Suhrawardi
5 The Systematiser: Fakhr al-Din al-Razi
6 The Thirteenth Century: Traditional Mutakallimun, Post-Razians, Ishraqis, and Neo-Avicennians
7 General Overview of the Study
1 Efficient Causality in Avicenna
1.1 The Subject of and the Reason for Causal Dependence
1.2 Categories of Efficient Causality
1.3 Necessitation Contra Contingent Choice
1.4 Corollaries of Efficient Causality
1.5 The Epistemic Function of Avicenna’s Aetiology
2 The Essence of Existence
2.1 Avicenna: Primitivity, Simplicity, Identity with Reality, Distinction from Quiddity
2.2 Bahmanyar, Khayyam, and Razi: The Rejection of Grounding and Dependent Knowability
2.3 Mas?udi and Abu l-Barakat: Grounding and Inferential Knowability
2.4 Ibn al-Mala?imi: Reduction to Quiddity, Nominalism, and Extensionalisation
2.5 Debates: on Grounding
2.6 Debates: on Simplicity and Knowability
2.7 Debates: on Primitivity
3 The Universality of Existence and Mental Existence
3.1 Avicenna and the Majority: the Universality of Existence and Mental Existence
3.2 Mas?udi and Razi: the Rejection of Mental Existence and the Aporia of Universality
3.3 Avicenna, Khayyam, Abu l-Barakat, and Razi: the Distinction between Mental and Concrete
3.4 Debates: on Universality
3.5 Debates: on Mental Existence
4 The Conceptual Invariance of Existence
4.1 Avicenna and the Majority: Conceptual Invariance
4.2 Ibn al-Mala?imi: Unrestricted Conceptual Variance
4.3 Shahrastani: Restricted Conceptual Variance
4.4 Debates: on the Case for Invariance
4.5 Debates: on the Case for Variance, Unrestricted and Restricted
5 The Modulation of Existence
5.1 Avicenna and Sawi: The Modulation of Existence by Priority and Worth
5.2 Ibn al-Mala?imi, Shahrastani, and Suhrawardi: the Rejection of the Modulation of Existence
5.3 Bahmanyar: Modulation by Intensity and Accidental Unity
5.4 Ibn al-Mala?imi, Shahrastani, Mas?udi, and Razi: Essential Unity and the Rejection of Intensity
5.5 Debates: on Intensity
5.6 Debates: on the Accidentality and Essentiality of Unity
6 The Accidentality of Existence
6.1 Avicenna, Bahmanyar, Sawi, Mas?udi, and Razi: the Accidentality of Existence
6.2 Ghazali and Ibn al-Mala?imi: the Rejection of Distinction (Nominalism)
6.3 Khayyam, Shahrastani, Ibn Ghaylan, and Suhrawardi: the Rejection of Concrete Reality (Conceptualism)
6.4 Abu l-Barakat: the Rejection of Inherence
6.5 Debates: on Distinction
6.6 Debates: on Concrete Reality
6.7 Debates: on Externality
6.8 Debates: on Inherence
7 The Contingency of Existence
7.1 Avicenna: Intuitivity, Temporal Neutrality, Equidistance, Attribution to Pure Quiddity, and Concrete Reality
7.2 Bahmanyar and Lawkari: Relativity, Modulation, and the Problem of Concrete Reality
7.3 Ghazali and Mas?udi: Contingency as Causal Dependence
7.4 Ibn al-Mala?imi: Temporal Qualification and Non-equidistance
7.5 The Majority: the Rejection of Concrete Reality
7.6 Debates: on Contingency as Causal Dependence
7.7 Debates: on the Possibility of Contingency
7.8 Debates: on Equidistance
7.9 Debates: on Concrete Reality
8 The Signs of Contingency
8.1 Avicenna and the Majority: the Contingency of the Conditional and of What Comes-to-be
8.2 Ghazali and Mas?udi: the Insufficiency of Conditionality for Contingency
8.3 Ibn al-Mala?imi: the Insufficiency of Composition for Contingency
8.4 Suhrawardi: the Contingency of the Imperfect and the Multipliable
8.5 Debates: on the Contingency of the Conditional
8.6 Debates: on the Contingency of What Comes-to-be
8.7 Debates: on the Contingency of the Imperfect and the Multipliable
9 The Principle of Sufficient Reason
9.1 Avicenna and the Majority: Sufficient Reason, Causal Necessitarianism, Unrestricted Applicability
9.2 Ghazali and Ibn Ghaylan: Non-applicability to Voluntary Actions
9.3 Ibn al-Mala?imi: the Weakening of the Principle
9.4 Shahrastani: Possible Applicability to Divine Actions
9.5 Razi: the Preference for Non-applicability to Divine Actions
9.6 Debates: on the Intuitivity of Sufficient Reason
9.7 Debates: the Inferential Case for Sufficient Reason
9.8 Debates: the Case against Sufficient Reason
10 The Coexistence of Cause and Effect
10.1 Avicenna and the Majority: Coexistence as Entailed by Sufficient Reason
10.2 Razi: Coexistence as Distinct from Sufficient Reason
10.3 Shahrastani: the Rejection of Coexistence with God
10.4 Ibn al-Mala?imi, Mas?udi: Causeless Persistence
10.5 Debates: on Coexistence
10.6 Debates: on Coexistence with God
10.7 Debates: on Causeless Persistence
11 Causal Priority
11.1 Avicenna and the Majority: Causal Priority as Existential Priority
11.2 Razi: the Problematisation of Causal Priority and Its Corollaries
11.3 Debates: on Causal Priority
11.4 Debates: on Self-Causation
11.5 Debates: on Essential Coming-to-be
Conclusion
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