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Proofs for Eternity, Creation and the Existence of God in Medieval Islamic and Jewish Philosophy [Kietas viršelis]

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  • Formatas: Hardback, 448 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 234x153x37 mm
  • Išleidimo metai: 07-Oct-2021
  • Leidėjas: Oneworld Academic
  • ISBN-10: 0861542401
  • ISBN-13: 9780861542406
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  • Formatas: Hardback, 448 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 234x153x37 mm
  • Išleidimo metai: 07-Oct-2021
  • Leidėjas: Oneworld Academic
  • ISBN-10: 0861542401
  • ISBN-13: 9780861542406
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In this classic study, Herbert A. Davidson examines every medieval Arabic and Hebrew proof for the eternity of the world, the creation of the world and the existence of God which has philosophical character, disregarding only those that rest entirely on religious faith or fall below a minimum threshold of plausibility. Classifying the proofs systematically, he analyses and explains them, and traces their sources in Greek philosophy. He pursues the penetration of some of these Islamic and Jewish arguments into medieval Christian philosophy and, in a few instances, all the way into seventeenth- and eighteenth-century European philosophy.





Unique in both its classification of the proofs and its comprehensiveness, this work will once again serve medievalists, historians of philosophy and historians of ideas.

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This book is a tour de force of real scholarship, methodical analysis, and painstaking classification Davidsons canvas is vast. All the major Islamic and Judaic philosophers are here and the book is thus assured of a ready sale among students and scholars of both. * Philosophy East and West * Extraordinarily successful Davidsons book is an invaluable contribution to the understanding of the history of ideas; it is also a stimulating essay of philosophical analysis. * Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies * A towering achievement. At the height of his powers here, Davidson has gone back to the sources to assemble all the significant medieval Islamic and Jewish proofs for the eternity of the world, for the creation of the world, and for the existence of God It is most welcome to see the medieval Islamic and Jewish philosophers treated so rigorously in their own right, not merely as precursors to Aquinas, or, even worse, as puppets dangling in a history of medieval thought. This book provides as clear an indication as one could hope to have of the health and vitality of Greek wisdom before its (re)discovery in (Christian) Europe. * Journal of the American Oriental Society *

I Introduction
1(8)
1 Eternity, creation, and the existence of God
1(5)
2 The present book
6(3)
II Proofs of Eternity from the Nature of the World
9(40)
1 Proofs of eternity
9(3)
2 Proofs of eternity from the nature of the physical world
12(18)
3 Replies to proofs from the nature of the world
30(16)
4 Summary
46(3)
III Proofs of Eternity from the Nature of God
49(37)
1 The proofs
49(18)
2 Replies to proofs from the nature of the cause of the universe
67(18)
3 Summary
85(1)
IV John Philoponus' Proofs of Creation and Their Entry into Medieval Arabic Philosophy
86(31)
1 Philoponus' proofs of creation
86(9)
2 Saadia and Philoponus
95(11)
3 Kindi and Philoponus
106(10)
4 Summary
116(1)
V Kalam Proofs for Creation
117(37)
1 Proofs from the impossibility of an infinite number
117(10)
2 Responses of the medieval Aristotelians to proofs of creation from the impossibility of an infinite number
127(7)
3 The standard Kalam proof for creation: the proof from accidents
134(9)
4 Juwaym's version of the proof from accidents
143(3)
5 Proofs from composition
146(8)
VI Arguments from the Concept of Particularization
154(59)
1 Inferring the existence of God from creation
154(20)
2 Arguments from the concept of particularization
174(13)
3 Particularization arguments for the existence of God without the premise of creation; particularization arguments for creation
187(7)
4 Ghazali and Maimonides
194(9)
5 Additional arguments for creation in Maimonides and Gersonides
203(10)
VII Arguments from Design
213(24)
1 Cosmological, teleological, and ontological proofs of the existence of God
213(3)
2 Teleological arguments
216(20)
3 Summary
236(1)
VIII The Proof from Motion
237(44)
1 Aristotle's proof from motion
237(3)
2 Maimonides' version of the proof from motion
240(9)
3 Hasdai Crescas' critique of the proof from motion
249(26)
4 Another proof from motion
275(6)
IX Avicenna's Proof of the Existence of a Being Necessarily Existent by Virtue of Itself
281(30)
1 First cause of motion and first cause of existence
281(3)
2 The existence of God: a problem for metaphysics
284(5)
3 Necessarily existent being and possibly existent being
289(4)
4 The attributes of the necessarily existent by virtue of itself
293(5)
5 Proof of the existence of the necessarily existent by virtue of itself
298(6)
6 Questions raised by Avicenna's proof
304(3)
7 The version of Avicenna's proof in Shahrastani and Crescas
307(2)
8 Summary
309(2)
X Averroes' Critique of Avicenna's Proof
311(25)
1 The proof of the existence of God as a subject for physics
312(6)
2 Necessarily existent by virtue of another, possibly existent by virtue of itself
318(3)
3 The nature of the celestial spheres according to Averroes
321(10)
4 Averroes' critique of the body of Avicenna's proof
331(3)
5 Summary
334(2)
XI Proofs of the Existence of God from the Impossibility of an Infinite Regress of Efficient Causes
336(42)
1 The proof from the impossibility of an infinite regress of causes
336(9)
2 Unity and incorporeality
345(5)
3 The proof from the impossibility of an infinite regress of efficient causes and the proof from the concepts possibly existent and necessarily existent
350(12)
4 Resume
362(3)
5 Crescas on the impossibility of an infinite regress
365(1)
6 Ghazali's critique of Avicenna's proof
366(9)
7 Summary
375(3)
XII Subsequent History of Proofs from the Concept of Necessary Existence
378(29)
1 Maimonides and Aquinas
378(7)
2 The influence of Avicenna's proof
385(3)
3 Proofs of the existence of God as a necessarily existent being in modern European philosophy
388(17)
4 Summary
405(1)
5 Concluding remark
406(1)
Appendix A Two Philosophic Principles
407(5)
1 The principle that an infinite number is impossible
407(2)
2 The principle that a finite body contains only finite power
409(3)
Appendix B Inventory of Proofs
412(2)
Primary Sources 414(7)
Index of Philosophers 421(6)
Index of Terms 427
Herbert A. Davidson was Professor Emeritus of Hebrew at UCLA, where he chaired the Near Eastern Languages and Cultures Department from 1981 to 1987. His other books include Moses Maimonides: The Man and His Works and Alfarabi, Avicenna, and Averroes, on Intellect.