On Aristotle's "Metaphysics"
On Aristotle's

Author: Averroës

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 389

ISBN-13: 3110220016

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The series is devoted to the study of scientific and philosophical texts from the Classical and the Islamic world handed down in Arabic. Through critical text editions and monographs, it provides access to ancient scientific inquiry as it developed in a continuous tradition from Antiquity to the modern period. All editions are accompanied by translations and philological and explanatory notes.

Commentary on the Metaphysics
Commentary on the Metaphysics

Author: Saint Thomas Aquinas

Publisher: Aeterna Press

Published:

Total Pages: 1376

ISBN-13:

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When several things are ordained to one thing, one of them must rule or govern and the rest be ruled or governed, as the Philosopher, teaches in the Politics. This is evident in the union of soul and body, for the soul naturally commands and the body obeys. The same thing is true of the soul’s powers, for the concupiscible and irascible appetites are ruled in a natural order by reason. Now all the sciences and arts are ordained to one thing, namely, to man’s perfection, which is happiness. Hence one of these sciences and arts must be the mistress of all the others, and this rightly lays claim to the name wisdom; for it is the office of the wise man to direct others. Aeterna Press

Metaphysics
Metaphysics

Author: Abū al-Walīd Muḥammad b. Aḥmad Ibn Rushd

Publisher:

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 9789004071865

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Interpreting Averroes
Interpreting Averroes

Author: Peter Adamson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1107114888

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Engages with all aspects of Averroes' philosophy, from his thinking on Aristotle to his influence on Islamic law.

Chance and Determinism in Avicenna and Averroes
Chance and Determinism in Avicenna and Averroes

Author: Catarina Belo

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2007-02-28

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9047419154

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This book examines the question whether medieval Muslim philosophers Avicenna (Arabic Ibn Sīnā 980-1037) and Averroes (Arabic Ibn Rushd 1126-1198) are determinists. With a focus on physics and metaphysics it studies their views on chance events in nature, as well as matter, in particular prime matter, and divine providence. In addition it sets their positions against the historical/philosophical background that influenced their response, the Greco-Arabic philosophical tradition - Aristotelian and Neoplatonic - on the one hand, and the tradition of Islamic theology (kalām) on the other. In comparing their philosophical systems, it lays emphasis on the way in which Avicenna and Averroes use these traditions to offer an original answer to the problem of determinism.