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Author Pavlov, Moshe M

Title Abul-Barakat Al-Baghdadi's Scientific Philosophy : the Kitab Al-Mutabar
Published Milton : Taylor and Francis, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (370 pages)
Series Routledge Jewish Studies Series
Routledge Jewish studies series.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Preface; Introductory overview; 1 An introduction to the life and philosophy of Abū'l-Barakāt; 1.1 The history and life of Abū'l-Barakāt al-Baghdādī; 1.2 From Greek and Arabic philosophy to the conceptions of the Kitāb: a general survey delimiting the intellectual background and setting; 1.3 An introduction to the terms and concepts of the Kitāb; 1.4 Abū'l-Barakāt's epistemological philosophy as presented in the particular sciences; 1.5 Shlomo Pines and the a priori interpretation of the Kitāb
1.6 On the structure, method, and order of the topicsPART I The theory of existence; IP1 Introduction to Part I; 2 Abū'l-Barakāt's critique of Aristotle: the transformation and alteration of being to existence; Abū'l-Barakāt's contention of an oral tradition and its corruption; 2.1 The Aristotelian dyadic notion of being and its four senses; 2.2 The transformation of actual and potential being; 2.3 The transformation of categorial being; 2.4 The transformation of accidental being; 2.5 Being as truth: existence and non-existence
2.6 Towards a theory of existence and the conception of the First ExistentPART II The theory of the existent: conceived on the basis of innate principles; IP2.1 Introduction to Part II; IP2.2 The innate principles conceived by the a priori first cognition; 3 Abū'l-Barakāt's philosophy of science and the principles of physics; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Background in the philosophy of science from Aristotle to Avicenna; 3.3 Abū'l-Barakāt's critique of the Aristotelian philosophy of science; 3.4 Abū'l-Barakāt's conception of the principles and structures of science
3.5 The general theory of forms of the physics3.6 The underlying infrastructure necessary for motion: conceptions of space, time, and the void; 3.7 The theory of motion: from Philoponus' theory of impetus to Abū'l-Barakāt's principle of motion; 3.8 Abū'l-Barakāt's principle of inertia; 3.9 Aspects of Avicenna's conception of motion; 3.10 On the nature of causality in the Physics; 3.11 From the principles of physics and beyond; 4 Epistemological ascertainment of psychology; 4.1 Historical introduction to the Psychology; 4.2 The primary notion of feeling and the secondary notion of the soul
4.3 The hierarchy of the development of feeling4.4 On the nature of the scientific inquiry of the Psychology; 5 Theoretical conceptions of the philosophy of logic; Introduction to the logic; 5.1 On substance and its inseparable accidents; 5.2 Philosophical introduction; 5.3 Abū'l-Barakāt's theory of reference and predication; 5.4 From predication to the logical theory of the universal and the accident; 5.5 The essentiality of it-is-it; 5.6 The study of the principles of science from the Logic; 5.7 The primary conceptions and principles of logic; Epilogue to the scientific philosophy; Glossary
Notes Includes index
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Subject Abū al-Barakāt Hibat Allāh ibn ʻAlī, active 1077-1164.
Abū al-Barakāt Hibat Allāh ibn ʻAlī, active 1077-1164. Muʻtabar.
Aristotle
SUBJECT Abū al-Barakāt Hibat Allāh ibn ʻAlī, active 1077-1164 fast
Aristotle fast
Muʻtabar (Abū al-Barakāt Hibat Allāh ibn ʻAlī) fast
Subject Science -- Philosophy.
Philosophy, Medieval.
Islamic philosophy.
Islamic philosophy
Philosophy, Medieval
Science -- Philosophy
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781317265528
1317265521
9781315636603
1315636603