Avicenna on the Necessity of the Actual: His Interpretation of Four Aristotelian Arguments

In his magnum opus, The Healing, Avicenna took four Aristotelian arguments and used them to prove a very un-Aristotelian conclusion: that the cosmos is both created and eternal. This book explains how Avicenna used his distinctive understanding of possibility and necessity to do so.

• | Author: Celia Kathryn Hatherly
• | Publisher: Lexington Books
• | Publication Date: Sep 23, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 200 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Philosophy
• | ISBN-10: 1666904481
• | ISBN-13: 9781666904482