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Avicenna and Fakhr Al-Din Al-Razi on the Cosmic System : = The Rule of One Efficient Causality, and Celestial Mediation.

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Reminder of title:	The Rule of One Efficient Causality, and Celestial Mediation.
Author:	Attar, Muhammad Fariduddin.
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Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-11, Section: B.
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Avicenna and Fakhr Al-Din Al-Razi on the Cosmic System : = The Rule of One Efficient Causality, and Celestial Mediation.
Attar, Muhammad Fariduddin.

Avicenna and Fakhr Al-Din Al-Razi on the Cosmic System :The Rule of One Efficient Causality, and Celestial Mediation. - 1 online resource (298 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-11, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--McGill University (Canada), 2023.

Includes bibliographical references

This thesis discusses Fakhr al-Din al-Razi's (d. 606/1210) reception of Avicenna's principle that "only one may proceed from the one" (la yaṣduru ʿan al-waḥid illa waḥid). It pursues two lines of inquiry. First, I argue that this "Rule of One" (qaʿidat al-waḥid) belongs to a broader theory of efficient causality, which Avicenna developed in the Ilahiyyat of the Shifaʾ, and which was systematized in later works, such as al-Isharat wa-l-tanbihat, al-Taʿliqat, and al-Mubaḥathat. While Avicenna famously used the principle to show that only a single effect may proceed directly from the Necessary Being, it was also designed to operate beyond this local context of Divine "creation." Indeed, it was by complying to the Rule that Avicenna was able to deduce through a priori principles the triadic structure of celestial procession, the nature and capacity of celestial entities, and the doctrine of the Active Intellect as the governor of the sublunary realm. The second aspect of this thesis is to show how Fakhr al-Din al-Razi was the first thinker to recognize that the Rule of One is one of the defining aspects of his predecessor's metaphysics of the efficient cause. By critically examining its underlying theoretical principles, Razi attempted to show that the Rule is false on two counts: that it is based on a problematic conception of causality and that it proposes a very rigid account of causal relations that has little explanatory power. I offer a detailed analysis of Razi's arguments based on his early philosophical works, namely al-Mabaḥith al-mashriqiyya, alMulakhkhaṣ fi al-manṭiq wa-l-ḥikma, and his commentary on Avicenna's al-Isharat wa-l-tanbihat. Criticizing this pivotal principle of causation is a strategic maneuver on Razi's part. In one fell stroke, he intended to undermine the metaphysical basis of Avicenna's naturalism, the Peripatetic framework of scientific analysis underlying it, and the substantive content of his cosmology, from his theory of celestial mediation to his account of psychic action performed by sublunary souls. The result is a comprehensive revision of the Avicennian cosmic system from the ground up. Finally, I offer a preliminary reconstruction of Razi's picture of the cosmos that emerges in the wake of his criticism of the Rule of One, focusing on three doctrines: God as a voluntary agent, celestial mediation based on Hermetic astrology, and a monadic theory of soul.

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520 $a Cette etude traite de la reception de l'axiome avicennien que « de l'un ne procede que l'un » (la yaṣduru ʿan al-waḥid illa waḥid) dans l'oeuvre de Fakhr al-Din al-Razi (m. 606/1210). Deux questions seront explorees. Premierement, nous proposons que cette « regle de l'Un » appartient a une theorie plus vaste concernant la cause efficiente et developpee par Avicenne (m. ca. 428/1037) dans l' « Ilahiyyat » de la Shifaʾ et systematisee dans ses oeuvres tardives tels que al-Isharat wa-ltanbihat, al-Taʿliqat, et al-Mubaḥathat. Bien qu'Avicenne a notamment employe ce principe pour demontrer que de l'Etre Necessaire seul un effet peut proceder, l'applicabilite de la regle depasse le sujet de la « creation » divine. En effet, c'est grace a cette regle qu'Avicenne a pu deduire, sur la base de principesa priori, la structure triadique des emanations celestes, la nature et la capacite des entites celestes, et la doctrine de l'intellect agent en tant que gouverneur du monde sublunaire. En second lieu, ce memoire cherche a demontrer que Fakhr al-Din al-Razi fut le premier a reconnaitre que la « regle de l'Un » constitue une des caracteristiques determinantes de la metaphysique de la cause efficiente de son predecesseur. En examinant de maniere critique les principes theoriques sous-jacentes a cette Regle, Razi tente de demontrer qu'elle est fausse pour deux raisons : elle est basee sur une conception problematique de la causalite et sa conception tres rigide des liens causals a un pouvoir explicatif limite. Il s'agira ici d'etudier les arguments que Razi propose a cet egard dans ses premieres oeuvres philosophiques, notamment al-Mabaḥith al-mashriqiyya, al-Mulakhkhaṣ fi al-manṭiq wa-l-ḥikma, et son commentaire sur al-Isharat wa-l-tanbihatd'Avicenne. La critique de ce principe de causalite fondamental dans la pensee d'Avicenne est une decision strategique de la part de Razi. Elle lui permet a la fois de saper la metaphysique a la base du naturalisme d'Avicenne, le cadre peripateticien de l'enquete scientifique qui la soutient, et une grande partie de sa cosmologie, de la theorie de la mediation des corps celestes jusqu'a son compte des activites psychiques des ames sublunaires. Cette critique entraine une revision comprehensive de la cosmologie avicennienne. Finalement, nous offrons une reconstruction preliminaire de la conception de l'univers de Razi en fonction de sa critique de la « regle de l'Un ». Plus precisement cette reconstruction s'appuie sur trois doctrines de Razi : Dieu en tant qu'agent volontaire, la mediation celeste basee sur l'astrologie hermetique et sa theorie monadique de l'ame.
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