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Averroes' Physics - A Turning Point in Medieval Natural Philosophy (Hardcover, New) Loot Price: R2,559
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Averroes' Physics - A Turning Point in Medieval Natural Philosophy (Hardcover, New): Ruth Glasner

Averroes' Physics - A Turning Point in Medieval Natural Philosophy (Hardcover, New)

Ruth Glasner

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Ruth Glasner presents an illuminating reappraisal of Averroes' physics. Glasner is the first scholar to base her interpretation on the full range of Averroes' writings, including texts that are extant only in Hebrew manuscripts and have not been hitherto studied. She reveals that Averroes changed his interpretation of the basic notions of physics - the structure of corporeal reality and the definition of motion - more than once. After many hesitations he offers a bold new interpretation of physics which Glasner calls 'Aristotelian atomism'. Ideas that are usually ascribed to scholastic scholars, and others that were traced back to Averroes but only in a very general form, are shown not only to have originated with him, but to have been fully developed by him into a comprehensive and systematic physical system. Unlike earlier Greek or Muslim atomistic systems, Averroes' Aristotelian atomism endeavours to be fully scientific, by Aristotelian standards, and still to provide a basis for an indeterministic natural philosophy. Commonly known as 'the commentator' and usually considered to be a faithful follower of Aristotle, Averroes is revealed in his commentaries on the Physics to be an original and sophisticated philosopher.

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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: June 2009
First published: August 2009
Authors: Ruth Glasner
Dimensions: 222 x 145 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-956773-7
Categories: Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > General
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Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Western philosophy, c 500 to c 1600 > General
Books > Philosophy > Non-Western philosophy > Islamic & Arabic philosophy
Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Ancient Western philosophy to c 500 > General
Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Western philosophy, c 500 to c 1600 > General
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LSN: 0-19-956773-5
Barcode: 9780199567737

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