Nature, Man and God in Medieval Islam : : Volume One.

Nature, Man and God in Medieval Islam : : Volume One.

A contemporary to Thomas Aquinas in Latin Catholic Italy, and with a parallel motivation to stabilize each his own civilization in its flux and storm, 'Abd Allah Baydawi of Ilkhan Persia wrote a compact and memorable Arabic Summation of Islamic Natural and Traditional Theology. With the same st...

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Calverley, Edwin,
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Pollock, James.
Place / Publishing House:Boston : : BRILL,, 2022.
©2002.
Year of Publication:2022
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (769 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Table of Content
  • Acknowledgments
  • Translators' Introduction
  • A note on the translation, its edition and revision
  • A note on 'Abd Allah Baydawi [d. 1316?]
  • A note on Mahmud Isfahani [1276-1348]
  • THE TRANSLATION
  • Foreword to the Commentary by Mahmud Isfahani
  • Foreword to the Subject Text by 'Abd Allah Baydawi
  • Isfahani's Commentary to Baydawi's Text begins
  • AUTHORS' INTRODUCTION STUDIES IN LOGICAL REASONING
  • Chapter 1: Principles of epistemology
  • 1. The two phases of knowing: an alternation between a. and b.
  • a. Concept formation regarding what is being perceived
  • b. Judgmental assent or dissent to features of the concept being formed
  • c. Each phase either by intuition or by rational acquisition of knowledge
  • 2. Logical rea.ooning, the means of such acquisition
  • Chapter 2: Explanatory statements
  • 1. Conditions that govern a definition
  • 2. Classes of definitions
  • Razi's objections
  • Baydawi's reply to Razi
  • 3. Realities definable and definitive
  • Chapter 3: Argumentation
  • 1. Kinds of argumentation
  • Analogical deduction
  • Investigative induction
  • Illustrative analogical deduction
  • 2. Analogical deduction in the syllogism and its types
  • The hypothetical exceptive syllogism
  • The categorical connective syllogism and the four figures
  • Figures 1, 2, 3, 4
  • Summary of figures and moods
  • 3. The premised materials of argumentation
  • Argumentation structured on rationality-proof, rhetoric, fallacy
  • Argumentation structured on authoritative tradition
  • Chapter 4: The distinguishing properties of sound logical reasoning
  • 1. Sound logical reasoning yields knowledge
  • Objections of the Buddhists
  • Objections of the geometricians
  • Corollaries to the yield of knowledge
  • 2. Sound logical reasoning is sufficient for knowledge of God.
  • 3. Sound logical reasoning is obligatory for knowledge of God
  • BOOK ONE REALITIES POSSIBLE
  • Section 1: Universals
  • Chapter 1: Classification of things known
  • 1. According to the Asha'irah and the Mu'tazilah
  • 2. According to the Philosophers and the Mutakallimun
  • Chapter 2: Existence and nonexistence
  • 1. The conception of existence is intuitive
  • 2. Existence is a commonality among all existents
  • A proof from negation
  • 3. Existence is an addition to the quiddities
  • Ash'ari's variant argument
  • Special case of the necessary existent
  • The philosophers' variant argument
  • A corollary
  • 4. The nonexistent is not a certainty externally
  • Argument of the Mu'tazilah on the non-existent
  • 5. The attribute-state is to be excluded
  • Chapter 3: Quiddity
  • 1. On the quiddity itself
  • 2. Classes of quiddity
  • Corollary regarding the simple quiddity
  • Corollary regarding the composite quiddity with distinguishable parts
  • Corollary regarding the composite quiddity with interpenetrating parts
  • 3. Individuation
  • Whether individuation is existential
  • The philosophers' corollary
  • Chapter 4: Necessity and possibility, eternity and temporality
  • 1. These subjects are intellectual entities having no external existence
  • 2. The distinguishing properties of necessity
  • 3. The distinguishing properties of possibility
  • The possibility makes a possible reality have need for a cause
  • Neither state of a possible reality has priority
  • A possible reality's existence depends upon an effective cause
  • A possible reality needs its effective cause as long as it exists
  • 4. Eternity
  • 5. Temporality
  • Chapter 5: Singularity and plurality
  • 1. On the real nature of singularity and plurality
  • Singularity is not the opposite of plurality in essence
  • 2. Classes of singularities
  • 3. Classes of plurality.
  • Objections regarding the black/white contrast
  • Some corollaries
  • Chapter 6: Cause and effect
  • 1. Classes of cause
  • 2. Multiple causes and effects
  • 3. The difference between the cause's effective part and its limiting condition
  • 4. Whether one thing can be both receiver and agent of causation simultaneously
  • Section 2: Accidents
  • Chapter 1 : General topics
  • 1. The various kinds of accidental qualities
  • 2. The impossibility of accidents transiting between substrates
  • 3. Whether an accident can subsist in another accident
  • 4. Whether accidents have permanent continuance
  • 5. The impossibility of one accident subsisting in two substrates at once
  • Chapter 2: Quantity
  • 1. Classes of quantity
  • 2. Quantity in its essence and as an accident
  • 3. On the nonexistential nature of quantities
  • 4. Time duration
  • The external existence of time duration: arguments against
  • The external existence of time duration: arguments for
  • Theories on the nature of time duration
  • 5. Place and void
  • Theories of place
  • Chapter 3: Quality
  • 1. Sensate qualities
  • Classes of sensate qualities
  • Touch sensations
  • Temperature: heat
  • Temperature: cold
  • Humidity
  • Weight
  • Texture
  • Vision sensations
  • Color strength
  • Nature of light
  • Hearing sensations
  • Taste sensations
  • Smell sensations
  • 2. Psychic qualities
  • The living nature [or, life and its absence]
  • Perception and knowledge
  • Corollaries to the mental form
  • The rational soul's four stages of intellectual development
  • The power of autonomous action and the willing nature
  • Pleasure and pain are self-evident concepts
  • Health and illness and related emotions
  • 3. Qualities specific to quantities
  • 4. Qualities of predisposition
  • Chapter 4: Accidents of relation
  • 1. Whether they appear in external existence
  • 2. The case of 'place-where'.
  • Gradual motion-change in quantity, quality, position and place-where
  • General factors necessarily involved in gradual motion-change
  • Types of force required to make gradual motion-change necessary
  • Whether quiescence occurs when straight-line motion changes direction
  • 3. The case of the adjunctive relationship
  • On priority in the adjunctive relationship
  • Section 3: Substances
  • Chapter 1: Bodies
  • 1. Definition of a 'body'
  • 2. Leading doctrinal theories on the parts of a body
  • The Mutakallimun argument that a body is a composite of indivisible atoms
  • The philosophers' arguments against the composition of bodies from atoms
  • The philosophers say a body is a continuity in itself and divisible without limit
  • Corollaries to the philosophers' doctrine of a body
  • 3. Classes of bodies
  • Simple bodied celestial spheres
  • Corollaries to the existence of the spheres: their ethereal nature
  • Corollaries to the existence of the spheres: motion in circular rotation
  • Simple bodied celestial orbs are fixed in the spheres
  • Simple bodied elements: fire, air, earth, water
  • Composite bodies are made from the elements
  • 4. Bodies as temporal phenomena
  • Theories of the philosophers on cosmogony
  • Arguments for the temporal nature of bodies
  • Bodies would have been quiescent if they had been present in past eternity
  • Bodies are possible realities and are caused
  • Bodies are inseparable from temporal phenomena
  • Arguments against the temporal nature of bodies
  • 5. Bodies as limited entities
  • Chapter 2: Incorporeal substantial beings
  • 1. Classes of incorporeal substantial beings
  • 2. The intellects of the celestial system
  • Intellects of the celestial system transcend thelimitations of matter
  • 3. The souls of the celestial system
  • 4. The incorporeal nature of human 'rational souls'.
  • Reason provides evidence of the rational soul's incorporeal nature
  • The rational soul's knowledge about God is not divisible as matter
  • Rational souls can perceive contraries simultaneously
  • Rational souls conceived as material bodies could not think freely
  • Rational souls can comprehend intelligibles without limit
  • Rational souls conceived as material bodies could not perceive universals
  • Tradition provides evidence of the rational soul's incorporeal nature
  • 5. The temporal nature of rational souls
  • 6. The rational soul's linkage to the body and governance within it
  • Powers of external perception
  • Sight
  • Hearing
  • Smell
  • Taste
  • Touch
  • Powers of internal perception
  • Coordination
  • Imagination
  • Estimation
  • Memory
  • Execution
  • Powers of body motion-change that are voluntary and elective
  • Powers of body motion-change that are naturally autonomic
  • 7. The permanent survival of the rational soul aftert he body's death.

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