1st Edition
Islamic Occasionalism and its critique by Averroes and Aquinas
By Majid Fakhry
Copyright 1958
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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Originally published in 1958. Occasionalism is generally associated in the history of philosophy with the name of Malébranche . But long before this time, the Muslim Theologians of the ninth and tenth centuries had developed an occasionalist metaphysics of atoms and accidents. Arguing that a number of distinctively Islamic concepts such as fatalism and the surrender of personal... Read more
Chapter 1 The Islamic Metaphysics of Atoms and Accidents; Chapter 2 The Repudiation of Causality by al-Ghaz?l?; Chapter 3 The Averroist Rehabilitation of Causality; Chapter 4 The Causal Dilemma and the Thomist Synthesis;
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Fakhry, Majid
