Title:
Islamic occasionalism : and its critique by Averroèes and Aquinas / Majid Fakhry.
Author:
Fakhry, Majid, author.
General Notes:
The author's thesis at Edinburgh University, with considerable revison and modification. .
The islamic metaphysics of atoms and accidents -- The reaction of islamic scholasticism to hellenism -- Maimonides and his account of kalam -- The islamic account of the metaphysics of atoms and accients -- Correlation, logical and casual and its modality -- The repudiation of causality by al-Ghazali -- Critical analysis of the causal principle -- The divine preogatives of soverignty and omnipotence -- The Averroist rehabiliation of causality -- Averroes and Maimonides in their Polemic against Ash'arite occasionalism -- Justification of the causal principle and the critique of contingency -- Limitations of the Averroist critique of occasionalism -- The causal dilemma and the Thomist synthesis -- Causality, primary and secondary -- Aquinas and the Loquentes -- Causality as an instance of divine love and generousity -- The role of causality in the ladder of analogical ascent from the finite to the infinite -- Miracle and the incommensurability of the created order with the infinite goodness of God.
Publisher:
George Allen & Unwin
Publication Place:
London :
Subject:
Occasionalism.
Islam -- Doctrines.
Averroes, 1126-1198 -- Philosophy.
Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274 -- Philosophy.
Contents:
The islamic metaphysics of atoms and accidents -- The reaction of islamic scholasticism to hellenism -- Maimonides and his account of kalam -- The islamic account of the metaphysics of atoms and accients -- Correlation, logical and casual and its modality -- The repudiation of causality by al-Ghazali -- Critical analysis of the causal principle -- The divine preogatives of soverignty and omnipotence -- The Averroist rehabiliation of causality -- Averroes and Maimonides in their Polemic against Ash'arite occasionalism -- Justification of the causal principle and the critique of contingency -- Limitations of the Averroist critique of occasionalism -- The causal dilemma and the Thomist synthesis -- Causality, primary and secondary -- Aquinas and the Loquentes -- Causality as an instance of divine love and generousity -- The role of causality in the ladder of analogical ascent from the finite to the infinite -- Miracle and the incommensurability of the created order with the infinite goodness of God.
Dissertation Note:
The author's thesis at Edinburgh University, with considerable revison and modification. .
Physical Description:
220, [4] pages ;
Publication Date:
1958.
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