The Physics of The Healing A Parallel English Arabic Text in Two Volumes 1st Edition by Avicenna, Jon McGinnis 0842527478 9780842527477

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ISBN 10: 0842527478

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Author: Avicenna, Jon McGinnis

Avicenna’s Physics is the very first volume that he wrote when he began his monumental encyclopedia of science and philosophy, TheHealing. Avicenna’s reasons for beginning with Physics are numerous: it offers up the principles needed to understand such special natural sciences as psychology; it sets up many of the problems that take center stage in his Metaphysics; and it provides concrete examples of many of the abstract analytical tools that he would develop later in Logic.

While Avicenna’s Physics roughly follows the thought of Aristotle’s Physics, with its emphasis on natural causes, the nature of motion, and the conditions necessary for motion, the work is hardly derivative. It represents arguably the most brilliant mind of late antiquity grappling with and rethinking the entire tradition of natural philosophy inherited from the Greeks as well as the physical thought of Muslim speculative theologians. As such, Physics is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding Avicenna’s complete philosophical system, the history of science, or the history of ideas.

Table of contents:

Volume 1

First Book: On the Causes and Principles of Natural Things

Chapter 1: Explaining the means by which to arrive at the science of natural things from their first principles
Chapter 2: Enumerating the principles of natural things by assertion and supposition
Chapter 3: How these principles are common
Chapter 4: Examination of what Parmenides and Melissus said regarding the principles of being
Chapter 5: On defining nature
Chapter 6: On nature’s relation to matter, form, and motion
Chapter 7: Of certain terms derived from nature and an explanation of their status
Chapter 8: On how the science of physics conducts investigation and what, if anything, it shares in common with the other sciences
Chapter 9: On defining the causes that are of the greatest interest to the natural philosopher in his investigation
Chapter 10: On defining each of the four kinds of causes
Chapter 11: On the interrelations of causes
Chapter 12: On the divisions of causal states
Chapter 13: Discussion of luck and chance: The difference between them and an explanation of their true state
Chapter 14: Some of the arguments of those who were in error concerning chance and luck and the refutation of their views
Chapter 15: How causes enter into investigating and seeking the why-question and the answer to it

Second Book: On Motion and That Which Follows It

Chapter 1: On motion
Chapter 2: The relation of motion to the categories
Chapter 3: Concerning the list of those categories alone in which motion occurs
Chapter 4: Establishing the opposition of motion and rest
Chapter 5: Beginning the account of place and reviewing the arguments of those who deny and those who affirm it
Chapter 6: The various schools of thought about place and a review of their arguments
Chapter 7: Refuting the view of those who say that place is matter or form or any indiscriminate contacting surface or an interval
Chapter 8: The inconsistency of those who defend the void
Chapter 9: The essence of place and its confirmation and the refutation of the arguments of those who deny and are in error about it
Chapter 10: Beginning the discussion about time, the disagreement of people concerning it, and the refutation of those erring about it
Chapter 11: Identifying and affirming the essence of time
Chapter 12: Explaining the instant
Chapter 13: The solution to the skeptical puzzle raised about time and the completion of the discussion of things temporal

Volume 2

Third Book: Concerning What Belongs to Natural Things Owing to Their Quantity

Chapter 1: The manner of investigation peculiar to this book
Chapter 2: On succession, contiguity, following immediately, interpenetration, cohesion, continuity, intermediate, limit, being together, and being separate
Chapter 3: The state of bodies with respect to their division and a report of the various arguments on which the detractors rely
Chapter 4: Establishing the true opinion and refuting the false
Chapter 5: Solution to the puzzle of those who prattle on about the atom
Chapter 6: On the interrelation of distance, motions, and times with respect to this topic, and an explanation that no first part belongs to them
Chapter 7: The beginning of the discussion about the finitude and infinitude of bodies and people’s opinions concerning that
Chapter 8: On the impossibility that either a body or magnitude or number in an ordered series is infinite
Chapter 9: An explanation of the way that the infinite does and does not enter into existence
Chapter 10: That bodies are finite with respect to influencing and being influenced
Chapter 11: That nothing precedes motion and time save the being of the Creator
Chapter 12: Following up on the claim that natural bodies have a minimum size and that no motion is least, slowest, or shortest
Chapter 13: On the directions of bodies
Chapter 14: The natural direction of rectilinear motion

Fourth Book: On the Accidents of These Natural Things and Their Interrelations

Chapter 1: Of the subjects contained in this book
Chapter 2: On the numerical unity of motion
Chapter 3: On the motion that is one in genus and species
Chapter 4: Resolving the doubts raised against motion’s being one
Chapter 5: On motions that are and are not in concert
Chapter 6: On the contrariety of motions and their opposites
Chapter 7: Of the oppositions of motion and rest
Chapter 8: On whether one motion can really be continuous with another
Chapter 9: On the motion that is naturally prior and a catalogue of the specific differences of motions
Chapter 10: The way in which space and other things are natural to the body
Chapter 11: That every body has a single natural space
Chapter 12: That every natural body has a principle of motion with respect to either place or position
Chapter 13: Accidental motion
Chapter 14: On forced motion and the mobile’s spontaneous motion
Chapter 15: The states of motive causes and their interrelations

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