ABU AL-WALID
AL-QURTUBI
AVERROES
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(The Incoherence of the Incoherence)
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TABLE
OF CONTENTS
VOLUME
I
TRANSLATION
THE FIRST DISCUSSION Concerning
the Eternity of the World
THE
FIRST PROOF
THE SECOND PROOF
THE THIRD PROOF
THE FOURTH PROOF
THE SECOND DISCUSSION:
The Refutation of their Theory of the Incorruptibility of
the World and of Time and Motion
THE THIRD DISCUSSION: The demonstration of their confusion in saying that God is
the agent and the maker of the
world and that the world in His product and act, and the demonstration that
these expressions are in their system only metaphors without any real sense
THE FOURTH DISCUSSION: Showing that they are unable to prone the existence of a
creator of the world
THE FIFTH DISCUSSION:
To show their incapacity to prove Gods unity and the
impossibility of two necessary existents both without a cause
THE SIXTH DISCUSSION: To refute their denial of attributes
THE SEVENTH DISCUSSION: To refute their claim that nothing cars
share with the First its genus and be differentiated from it through a specific
difference, and that with respect to its intellect the division into genus and
specific difference cannot be applied to it
THE EIGHTH DISCUSSION: To refute their theory that the existence
of the First is simple, namely that it is pure existence and that its existence
stands in relation to no quiddity and to no essence, but stands to necessary
existence as do other beings to their quiddity
THE NINTH DISCUSSION: To refute their proof that the First is
incorporeal
THE TENTH DISCUSSION: To prove their incapacity to demonstrate that the world has a
creator and a cause, and that in fact they are forced to admit atheism
THE ELEVENTH DISCUSSION:
To show the incapacity of those philosophers who believe
that the First knows other things besides its own self and that it knows the
genera and the species in a universal way, to prone that this is so
THE TWELFTH DISCUSSION: About the impotence of the philosophers to prone that Cod
knows Himself
THE THIRTEENTH DISCUSSION: To refute those who arm that Gad is ignorant of the
individual things which are divided in time into present, past, and future
THE FOURTEENTH DISCUSSION: To refute their proof that heaven is an animal mowing in a
circle in obedience to God
THE FIFTEENTH DISCUSSION: To refute the theory of the philosophers about the aim which
moves heaven
THE SIXTEENTH DISCUSSION: To refute the philosophical theory that the souls of the
heavens observe all the particular events of this world
THE FIRST DISCUSSION:
The
denial of a logical necessity between cause and effect
THE
SECOND DISCUSSION: The
impotence of the philosophers to show by demonstrative proof that the soul is a
spiritual substance
THE
THIRD DISCUSSION: Refutation
of the philosophers proof for the immortality of the soul
THE
FOURTH DISCUSSION: Concerning
the philosophers denial of bodily resurrection
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APPENDIX: Changes proposed in the Arabic Text 365
INDEX of Proper Names 374
VOLUME
(II)
NOTES 1
Index of Proper Names mentioned in the Introduction and in the Notes 207
Index of Subject/ mentioned in the Notes 211
Some contradictions in Aristotles System 215
Arabic-Greek Index to the Notes 216
Greek-Arabic Index to the Notes 218
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