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Author Fakhry, Majid

Title Islamic Occasionalism : and its critique by Averroes and Aquinas
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (348 pages)
Contents Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; The Islamic Metaphysics of Atoms and Accidents; CHAPTER ONE; Notes to Chapter One; 4 Correlation, Logical and Causal and its Modality; 3 The Islamic Account of the Metaphysics of Atoms and Accidents; 2 Maimonides and his Account of Kalām; 1 The Reaction of Islamic Scholasticism to Hellenism; The Repudiation of Causality by al-Ghazālī; CHAPTER TWO; Notes to Chapter Two; 2 The Divine Prerogatives of Sovereignty and Omnipotence; 1 Critical Analysis of the Causal Principle; The Averroist Rehabilitation of Causality; CHAPTER THREE
Notes to Chapter Three3 Limitations of the Averroist Critique of Occasionalism; 2 Justification of the Causal Principle and the Critique of Contingency; 1 Averroës and Maimonides in their Polemic against Ash'arite Occasionalism; The Causal Dilemma and the Thomist Synthesis; CHAPTER FOUR; Notes to Chapter Four; 5 Miracle and the Incommensurability of the Created Order with the Infinite Goodness of God; 4 The Role of Causality in the Ladder of Analogical Ascent from the Finite to the Infinite; 3 Causality as an Instance of Divine Love and Generosity; 2 Aquinas and the Loquentes
1 Causality, Primary and SecondaryCONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
Notes Originally published in 1958, this volume discusses the attacks on Occasionalism made by Averroes and St. Thomas Aquinas
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Subject Averroës, 1126-1198
Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274 -- Philosophy
Averroës, 1126-1198
Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274
Occasionalism.
PHILOSOPHY -- Eastern.
Occasionalism
Philosophy
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781134541478
1134541473