The Place of Avicennian Causality: A Historical Survey

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Assistant Professor of Islamic philosophy department/ Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran.

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Causality in Peripatetic Philosophy from Aristotle to Ibn Sina, allocated a decisive and central role to itself, and not only the existence of external objects but any account of and their explanation without taking into account the principle of causality and causal relationship was impossible in intellectual and philosophical schools in Islamic and western world found a different fate, at times was proved and as a philosophical principle was accepted in the philosophical systems, and then went to the border dispute.
Aristotle first made a philosophical analysis of causality in the form of four causes and Ibn Sina explained this theory on the basis of the distinction between existence and nature in Islamic philosophy. Whereas Muslim philosophers and western rationalist philosophers did not oppose this principle, in principle, Muslim and Christian theologians and some Muslim philosophers as well as empiricist and positivist philosophers looked at the principle of causality and its correlatives in a different way, sometimes they rejected this principle, sometimes while accepted it did not accept its consequences or reduced it to something like a mathematical rule, which has no actuality in the external world.

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