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Avicenna on the Necessity of the Actual
His Interpretation of Four Aristotelian Arguments
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Avicenna on the Necessity of the Actual
His Interpretation of Four Aristotelian Arguments
About this book
According to Avicenna, whatever exists, while it exists, exists of necessity. Not all beings, however, exist with the same kind of necessity. Instead, they exist either necessarily per se or necessarily per aliud. Avicenna on the Necessity of the Actual: His Interpretation of Four Aristotelian Arguments explains how Avicenna uses these modal claims to show that God is the efficient as well as the final cause of an eternally existing cosmos. In particular, Celia Kathryn Hatherly shows how Avicenna uses four Aristotelian arguments to prove this very un-Aristotelian conclusion. These arguments include Aristotle's argument for the finitude of efficient causes in Metaphysics 2; his proof for the prime mover in the Physics and Metaphysics 12; his argument against the Megarians in Metaphysics 9; and his argument for the mutual entailment between the necessary and the eternal in De Caelo 1.12. Moreover, Hatherly contends, when Avicenna's versions of these arguments are correctly interpreted using his distinctive understanding of necessity and possibility, the objections raised against them by his contemporaries and modern scholars fail.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I: God as The First Cause of Existence
- Chapter 1: The Modal Distinction in the Proof from the Metaphysics of the Healing
- Chapter 2: The Modal Distinction in the Proof from the Metaphysics of the Salvation
- Part II: God as The Ultimate Final Cause
- Chapter 3: The First Efficient Cause as the Ultimate Final Cause
- Chapter 4: The Role of the Proof from Motion
- Part III: The Eternity of the World
- Chapter 5: Material Potency as a Principle of Change
- Chapter 6: The Eternal and the Generable
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author