Averroes and His Philosophy

ISBN-13: 9780700706754 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 224 str.

Oliver Leaman

Opis

Averroes was born in 1126 AD in Cordoba, Andalusia. His education comprised a thorough grounding in the Maliki approach to jurisprudence and an Ash'arite introduction to theology. The Ash'arite put forward an interpretation of Shari'a and Islam which emphasizes the power and influence of God over all things, an emphasis which leads them to abandon the objectivity of causality, ethics, and the world as eternal entity. Averroes spent most of the rest of his life arguing against this approach.

Spis treści

Introduction: The Cultural Context; Part I Metaphysics; Chapter 1 The Incoherence of the Incoherence; Chapter 2 What Can God Do?; Chapter 3 The Soul and Essence; Part II Practical Philosophy; Chapter 4 Divine Law and Human Wishes; Chapter 5 Philosophy and shar?‘a; Part III Reason, Religion, and Language; Chapter 6 Averroism; Chapter 7 Averroes’ Philosophical Methodology;

O autorze

Oliver Leaman