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

by Celia Kathryn Hatherly (Author)

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 Biography

Celia Kathryn Hatherly is assistant professor of philosophy in the Humanities Department at MacEwan University.