Islamic Philosophy
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Lesson 60: Further Discussion of Substantial Motion
A Reminder of Some Points An important problem regarding substantial motion has been raised which will be reviewed at…
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Lesson 59: Motion in Substance
Introduction As was indicated, philosophers of the past, including Aristotelians and Illuminationists, considered motion to be specific to accidents.…
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Lesson 58: Motion in Accidents
Introduction The motion which is familiar to ordinary people is motion in space and position, such as the motions…
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Lesson 57: Divisions of Motion
Introduction We have learned that the constituents of motion exist in all motions and are invariable, and there is…
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Lesson 56: Properties of Motion
The Constituent Factors of Motion Noting that which has already been discussed regarding motion, it becomes clear that the…
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Lesson 55: Motion
The Concept of Motion During the previous discussions the concept of motion became clear, and a simple definition of it…
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Lesson 54: Generation and Corruption
Introduction Among the fifteen kinds of change which we assumed, there were three of them (kinds one through three)…
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Lesson 53: A Continuation of the Discussion of the Potential and the Actual
The Correspondence of Potentiality and Actuality in the Case of Change Focusing on the concepts of potentiality and actuality,…
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Lesson 52: The Potential and the Actual
Introduction Man has always been a witness to changes and alterations in bodies and in souls attached to matter,…
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Lesson 51: The Immutable and the Changing
Introduction Among the primary divisions which can be made for existence is that between the immutable and the changing.…
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