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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : électronique
Auteur(s) : Janos, Damien
Titre(s) : Method, Structure, and Development in al-F?r?b?'s Cosmology [Texte électronique] / by Damien Janos
Publication : Leiden : BRILL, 2012
Description matérielle : 1 online resource (447 pages)
Note(s) : This study analyzes key concepts in al-F?r?b?'s cosmology and provides a new interpretation
of his philosophical development through an analysis of the Greco-Arabic sources and
a contextualization of his life and thought in the cultural and intellectual milieu
of his time.
Sujet(s) : Fārābī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Abū Naṣr al- (0870?-0950) -- Critique et interprétation
Cosmologie islamique
Indice(s) Dewey :
181.6 (23e éd.) = Philosophie orientale - Irak
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9789004217324
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb42772486j
Notice n° :
FRBNF42772486
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Method, Structure, and Development in al-Farabi's Cosmology; Copyright; Dedication;
Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; I Cosmology, the Sciences,
and the Scientific Method; 1. The Late Antique Greek and Early Islamic Contexts; 1.1.
Some Biographical Notes; 1.2. The Dual Legacy of Greek Astronomy and Philosophy; 1.3.
Early Islamic Cosmological Trends; 2. Astronomy and its Place in the Philosophical
Curriculum; 2.1. Astronomy and Astrology and their Subject Matter; 2.2. The Principles
of Astronomy; 2.3. The Primacy of Metaphysics and its Impact on Cosmology.
2.4. Al-Farabi and the Later hay?ah Tradition3.1. The Evidence for and against Demonstration;
3.2. The Limits of Human Knowledge and the Role of Analogy; 3.3. Transferred Terms
(asma? manqulah) and Transference (naqlah); 4. Conclusion; II The Architecture of
the Heavens: Intellects, Souls, and Orbs; 1. The Celestial Bodies; 1.1. Orbs, Spheres,
Planets, and Stars; 1.2. Al-Farabi and Ptolemy on the Planetary Models; 1.3. The Celestial
Souls; 2. The Separate Intellects; 2.2. A New Problem; 2.3. The Nature, Activity,
and Knowledge of the Separate Intellects.
2.4. The Special Case of the Agent Intellect2.5. Intellect and Form; 3. The First
(al-awwal); 4. Unity and Multiplicity; 5. Conclusion; III Matter and Creation: A Shift
in Paradigms?; 1. The Nature of Celestial Matter; 1.1. Al-Farabi?s Hylic Terminology;
2. The Origin of Matter: From Creationism to Eternal Causation; 2.1. Aether and Creationism:
An Exercise in Harmonization; 2.2. Ih?s?a? and Aghrad?: Two Transitional Works?; 2.3.
A Common Cosmogonical Paradigm; 2.4. Conclusion; 2.5. Falsafat Arist?ut?alis; 2.6.
The Eternalist Paradigm: Ara?, Siyasah, Tah?s?il, Fus?ul, and Fi l-?aql.
2.7. Causation, Compositeness, and the Celestial Substrate3. Strengthening the Developmentalist
Hypothesis; 4. Conclusion; IV The Aporia of Celestial Motion; 1. The Various Motions
of the Heavenly Bodies; 2. The Causes of Celestial Motion; 2.1. Nature and Motion:
An Impasse; 2.2. Quwwah; 2.3. Intellection as a Cause of Motion; 3. The Problem of
the Particular Motions of the Planets; 3.1. Ibn Sina and the Different Models of Planetary
Motion; 3.2. A Hypothetical Reconstruction of al-Farabi?s Kinematic Model; 3.3. Celestial
Kinematics and the Classification of the Sciences in falsafah.
4. ConclusionConclusion; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Bibliography; Index.
