abu `al-barakat al-baghdadi, before explanation of his selected view about the problem of the quality of emergence of multitudinous from unit, expresses the theory of peripatetic philosophers with a historical outlook. he then critics the viewpoint of peripatetic philosophers and finally explains his view in the course of four descriptions. the following points are proposed when criticized his ...

condensation (contraction) and rarefaction (expansion)are two terms in natural philosophy (physics) used inseveral different meanings. in this article the meanings ofthe two terms and their real and artificial kinds areintroduced and their differences with some terms such asgrowth, tumor, and, also, their opposite ones areexpressed. we have also evaluated the philosophical andexperimental argum...

avicenna, being influenced by farabi’s specific terms about the dual concepts of existence and quiddity, believed in external occurrence of existence upon quiddity in the contingents and the accidental synthesis of things from them. but bahmanyar, the self-proclaimed commentator on avicenna, expressly states in al-tahsil that the existence of a thing is the objectivity of its external quiddity ...

according to abū al-barakāt baghdādī, time and place are a priori conditions of motion; moreover, against the peripatetic philosophers, for whom time is the measure of motion, he holds that time is the measure of existence. nevertheless, he believes that we can define motion on the basis of our intuitive non-scientific concept of time and, by so doing, we can resolve the apparent circularity of...

the present article is to explain ibn sina’s view on the god’s knowledge of things by rational-analytic method. peripatetic philosophers including ibn sina have used the expression representation (irtisam) in discussing divine foreknowledge of things. commentators and critics of avicenna’s works had not the same interpretation of this expression but had given different understandings of it so t...

AbstractThis article discusses about metaphysics in al Farabi's peripatetic philosophy, particularly happiness. In the historical study of this belief was grounded through method. tradition, there are several central themes that become profound discourses philosophical discourse, including metaphysical concepts. The concept has a unique distinction its position Islamic philosophy. One them is f...