Weak Discourses on People’s Lips Fakhr al-Dın al-Razı against Representationalism and Conceptualism [PDF]
The development of Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’ thought on Avicennian and post-Avicennian representationalism and conceptualism is marked by increasing skepticism and critical engagement.
Francesco Omar Zamboni
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Avicenna’s Arguments against Metempsychosis [PDF]
Metempsychosis is the concept of the transmigration of a human or animal soul into another human, animal, plant, or even an inanimate object. The theory of metempsychosis poses a challenge to the belief in resurrection (Maʿād), making it necessary to ...
Mahdi Khayatzadeh
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Being and Meaning: Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī and His Followers on the Identity of Knowledge and the Known [PDF]
In this article, the problem of universals is discussed in terms of the relationship between knowledge and being, on the basis of the works of Ibn Sīnā and his commentators.
Ömer Türker
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Typologies of Scepticism in the Philosophical Tradition of Kalām
Abstract This article examines the role of scepticism in the Islamic philosophical tradition. It begins with a treatment of the origins and purpose of these discussions in classical kalām (c. 800–1100 CE). Then it moves on to the more mature discussions treating five forms of scepticism in the post‐classical period (c.1200–1800 CE), with the aim of ...
Abdurrahman Ali Mihirig
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Book review: Al-Khunaji’s Logic (Fallahi, Asadollah, (2013), Al-Khunaji’s Logic, The Iranian Institute of Philosophy, Tehran) [PDF]
Khunaji’s logic deal with the logical novelties Afzal al-din al-Khunaji in his Kashf al-asrar an ghawamiz al-afkar. Among all the novelties of Kashf on concepts, defintion, propositons, and categorical and hypothetical syllogisms, Khunaji’s logic just ...
Asadollah Fallahi
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On Some Sceptical Elements in Barhebraeus
Abstract This paper shall look briefly into the treatment of some topics related to scepticism in general in works by Barhebraeus, the famous Syrian Orthodox polymath and theologian (1226–1286). He addresses scepticism both directly by a discussion of sensory and intellectual fallacies or sceptical scenarios as well as indirectly by the definition of ...
Jens Ole Schmitt
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The Problem of Existential Import in Metathetic Propositions: Qutb al-Din al-Tahtani contra Fakhr al-Din al-Razi [PDF]
This paper addresses discussions in post-Avicennan Arabic logic on various characterizations of metathetic propositions and their status vis-à-vis the existential import condition by focusing on the arguments made by Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī (d.
Yusuf Daşdemir
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THE ISSUES ON WHICH IMAM AL-RAZI SAID THE WORDS DIFFERED BETWEEN THE TWO BOOKS (AL-MAHSOOL, AL-MA'ALEM) COLLECTION AND DOCUMENTATION [PDF]
This is a set of fundamentalist issues for Imam Fakhr Al-Din Al-Razi in which the argument differed between his book Al-Mahsoul and his book Al-Maalim, as there was a clear and frank difference in his opinion on one issue, I collected it through the book
Belal H. Ali
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Abstract Newly accessible source material calls for a revision of our picture of the more technical transmission of sceptical epistemologies in the intellectual landscape of early Islam. Abū al‐Qāsim al‐Balkhīʼs (ninth/tenth century) Book of Doctrines shows that naẓar as the basic argumentative method of kalām is defined by the encounter with a broad ...
Heidrun Eichner
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The Flightless Man: Self-Awareness in Fakhr al-Din al-Razi [PDF]
The flying man thought experiment upon which Avicenna grounds his theory of self-awareness (al-shu‘ūr al-dhātī) and justifies the argument that the soul is an immaterial, incorporeal and independent substance, has drawn as much interest in the modern era
M. Zahit Tiryaki
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