روش، ساختار و توسعه در کیهان شناسی فارابی [کتاب انگلیسی] | کتابخانه مجازی الفبا

Table of contents :
Method, Structure, and Development in al-Fārābī’s Cosmology......Page 3
Copyright......Page 4
Dedication......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
Acknowledgements......Page 11
Abbreviations......Page 13
Introduction......Page 15
1. The Late Antique Greek and Early Islamic Contexts......Page 25
1.1. Some Biographical Notes......Page 26
1.2. The Dual Legacy of Greek Astronomy and Philosophy......Page 30
1.3. Early Islamic Cosmological Trends......Page 40
1.4. Cosmology in al-Fārābī’s Philosophical Treatises and the Problem with Mahdi’s Hypothesis......Page 52
2. Astronomy and its Place in the Philosophical Curriculum......Page 57
2.1. Astronomy and Astrology and their Subject Matter......Page 58
2.2. The Principles of Astronomy......Page 71
2.3. The Primacy of Metaphysics and its Impact on Cosmology......Page 87
2.4. Al-Fārābī and the Later hayʾah Tradition......Page 96
3.1. The Evidence for and against Demonstration......Page 98
3.2. The Limits of Human Knowledge and the Role of Analogy......Page 108
3.3. Transferred Terms (asmāʾ manqūlah) and Transference (naqlah)......Page 112
4. Conclusion......Page 125
1.1. Orbs, Spheres, Planets, and Stars......Page 129
1.2. Al-Fārābī and Ptolemy on the Planetary Models......Page 133
1.3. The Celestial Souls......Page 142
2.1. The Origin of al-Fārābī’s Ennadic Scheme......Page 156
2.2. A New Problem......Page 176
2.3. The Nature, Activity, and Knowledge of the Separate Intellects......Page 181
2.4. The Special Case of the Agent Intellect......Page 188
2.5. Intellect and Form......Page 190
3. The First (al-awwal)......Page 194
4. Unity and Multiplicity......Page 204
5. Conclusion......Page 215
1.1. Al-Fārābīʾs Hylic Terminology......Page 217
1.2. A Survey of Celestial Matter in al-Fārābī’s Philosophy......Page 220
1.3. Four Explanations of al-Fārābī’s Theory of Substrate (mawḍūʿ)......Page 236
2. The Origin of Matter: From Creationism to Eternal Causation......Page 249
2.1. Aether and Creationism: An Exercise in Harmonization......Page 250
2.2. Iḥṣāʾ and Aghrāḍ: Two Transitional Works?......Page 270
2.3. A Common Cosmogonical Paradigm......Page 280
2.4. Conclusion......Page 293
2.5. Falsafat Arisṭūṭālīs......Page 297
2.6. The Eternalist Paradigm: Ārāʾ, Siyāsah, Taḥṣīl, Fuṣūl, and Fī l-ʿaql......Page 300
2.7. Causation, Compositeness, and the Celestial Substrate......Page 318
3. Strengthening the Developmentalist Hypothesis......Page 326
4. Conclusion......Page 339
1. The Various Motions of the Heavenly Bodies......Page 347
2.1. Nature and Motion: An Impasse......Page 353
2.2. Quwwah......Page 359
2.3. Intellection as a Cause of Motion......Page 362
3. The Problem of the Particular Motions of the Planets......Page 369
3.1. Ibn Sīnā and the Different Models of Planetary Motion......Page 370
3.2. A Hypothetical Reconstruction of al-Fārābīʾs Kinematic Model......Page 376
3.3. Celestial Kinematics and the Classification of the Sciences in falsafah......Page 383
4. Conclusion......Page 390
Conclusion
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Appendix 1......Page 397
Appendix 2......Page 411
Bibliography......Page 417
Index......Page 441