Islamic Occasionalism: and its critique by Averroes and Aquinas

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Originally published in 1958, this volume discusses the attacks on Occasionalism made by Averroes and St.Thomas Aquinas.

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The Islamic Metaphysics of Atoms and Accidents	p. 22
The Reaction of Islamic Scholasticism to Hellenism
Maimonides and his Account of Kalam
The Islamic Account of the Metaphysics of Atoms and Accidents
Correlation, Logical and Causal and its Modality
The Repudiation of Causality by al-Ghazali	p. 56
Critical Analysis of the Causal Principle
The Divine Prerogatives of Sovereignty and Omnipotence
The Averroist Rehabilitation of Causality	p. 83
Averroes and Maimonides in their Polemic against Ash'arite Occasionalism
Justification of the Causal Principle and the Critique of Contingency
Limitations of the Averroist Critique of Occasionalism
The Causal Dilemma and the Thomist Synthesis	p. 139
Causality, Primary and Secondary
Aquinas and the Loquentes
Causality as an Instance of Divine Love and Generosity
The Role of Causality in the Ladder of Analogical Ascent from the Finite to the Infinite
Miracle and the Incommensurability of the Created Order with the Infinite Goodness of God
Conclusion	p. 208
Index	p. 219
Bibliography	p. 214
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