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Classical Arabic philosophy :an anthology of sources

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 394-402) and index.; Introduction -- Falsafa and the arabic translation movement -- The intellectual world of the ancient and medieval mediterranean -- The physical theory and cosmology of islamic speculative theology (kalām) -- Al-Kindī: The explanation of the proximate efficient cause for generation and corruption -- On the intellect -- On divine unity and the finitude of the world's body -- The one true and complete agent and the incomplete metaphorical agent" -- On the means of dispelling sorrows -- Ar-Rāzī: The philosopher's way of life -- On the five eternals -- Selections from doubts against Galen -- Al-Fārābī -- The eisagōgē; the introduction -- Selections from Book of demonstration -- On the intellect -- The aims of Aristotle's Metaphysics -- The principles of existing things -- Directing attention to the way to happiness. Baghdad peripatetics: Abū Bishr Mattá: selections from Abū Bishr Mattá's Commentary on Aristotle's Physics

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181McG c

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: Indianapolis :.,

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xxxi, 427 p. ;

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English

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0872208729 (cloth :

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181

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Book of demonstration, iii.5 -- The Cure

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Book of demonstration, i.9

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