Creation and the Cosmic System... Al-Ghazâlî & Avicenna
RICHARD M. FRANK Creation and the Cosmic System: Al-Ghazâlî & Avicenna Vorgelegt am 27. April 1991 HEIDELBERG 1992 CARL WINTER • UNIVERSITÀTSVERLAG Die Deutsche Bibliothek - CIP-Einheitsaufnahme Frank, Richard M.: For Abuna Anawati Table of Contents 1. Introduction 9 2. The Rejection of Traditional Analysis and the Move towards Avicenna .... 12 3. The Ordering of Causes and Events within the World 22 3.1.1. Sublunary Causes and the Fulfilment of Conditions 22 3.1.2. Ambivalences of Expression 31 3.2. Celestial Causes and the Universal System 38 4. God’s “Determination” of What Must Be 47 4.1. Wisdom, Judgement, and Command: the Need to Divide and Distinguish 47 4.2. Possible Beings and the Possible World 52 4.3. The Necessity of the Universe that God Wills 63 4.4. God’s Knowledge, Will, and Power: A Dialogue with A