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| ISBN: | 9789004217324
9004217320
9789004206151
9004206159
9781280126642
1280126647
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | This study--the first monograph devoted exclusively to al-Fārābī's cosmology--provides a new interpretation of this thinker's philosophical development through an analysis of the Greek and Arabic sources and a contextualization of his life and thought in the cultural and intellectual milieu of his time. It discusses key cosmological and metaphysical concepts articulated in his works, with a special focus on celestial causation, intellection, and motion. This book also examines al-Fārābī's cosmological method and particularly the connection between astronomy, physics, and metaphysics. The result is a reassessment of al-Fārābī's cosmology vis-à-vis late-antique Greek philosophical trends and a clearer understanding of how it creatively adapted and transformed this legacy to establish a new cosmological paradigm in Arabic thought.
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| Other form: | Print version: Janos, Damien. Method, structure, and development in al-Fārābi's cosmology. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012 9789004206151
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| Standard no.: | 9786613530509
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