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Avicenna on the Necessity of the Actual - His Interpretation of Four Aristotelian Arguments (Hardcover)
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Avicenna on the Necessity of the Actual - His Interpretation of Four Aristotelian Arguments (Hardcover)
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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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