This book is an introduction to debates in philosophy within the medieval Islamic world. It discusses a number of themes which were controversial within the philosophical community of that period: the creation of the world out of nothing, immortality, resurrection, the nature of ethics, and the relationship between natural and religious law. The author provides an account of the arguments of Farabi, Avicenna, Ghazali, Averroes and Maimonides on these and related topics. His argument takes into account the significance of the conflict between faith and reason, religion and philosophy. The book sets out to show how interesting these philosophical debates are, and criticizes the view that these arguments are of no more than historical interest.
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This book is an introduction to debates in philosophy within the medieval Islamic world. It discusses a number of themes which were controversial within the philosophical community of that period: the creation of the world out of nothing, immortality, resurrection, the nature of ethics, and the relationship between natural and religious law.
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Religious texts which are designed to serve as the very basis of faith rarely incorporate philosophically or scientifically exact statements concerning the creation of the world, and Islam is no exception here. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
active intellect, acquired intellect, esoteric interpretation, sublunar world, demonstrative reasoning, material intellect, theoretical perfection, agent intellect, natural law doctrine, necessarily existent, religious commandments, actual infinity, demonstrative argument Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Religious texts which are designed to serve as the very basis of faith rarely incorporate philosophically or scientifically exact statements concerning the creation of the world, and Islam is no exception here. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
active intellect, acquired intellect, esoteric interpretation, sublunar world, demonstrative reasoning, material intellect, theoretical perfection, agent intellect, natural law doctrine, necessarily existent, religious commandments, actual infinity, demonstrative argument Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Can God, New York, Oxford University Press, Alexander of Aphrodisias, Ibn Rushd, Philosophische Abhandlungen New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Nicomachean Ethics (Oxford World's Classics) by Aristotle on 4 pages
- The Ten Commandments by Emmet Fox on page 152
- Introduction to the Code of Maimonides (Mishneh Torah) (Yale Judaica Series) by Isadore Twersky on page 148
- Magna Moralia (Spanish Edition) by Aristotle on page 167
- Posterior Analytics (Clarendon Aristotle) by Aristotle in Front Matter
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- History of Islamic Philosophy (Routledge History of World Philosophies, V. 1) by Seyyed Hossein Nasr on 5 pages
- Eastern Philosophy: Key Readings (Routledge Key Guides) by Oliver Leaman on 5 pages
- Allah Transcendent: Studies in the Structure and Semiotics of Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Cosmology by Ian Richard Netton on 4 pages
- History of Islamic Philosophy (Routledge History of World Philosophies, V. 1) by Seyyed Hossein Nasr on page 18, page 97, and Back Matter
- Philosophy of Religion: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy) by Keith E. Yandell on page 97, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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