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Abstract Late in his intellectual life, Faḫr al-Dīn al-Rāzī espoused a dualistic position on the nature of the soul, denying that the soul is in any sense a material body. This view, which in broad terms concurs with Avicenna’s, sets al-Rāzī in opposition to the theologians’ materialistic stance. To make his position clear, in his last work Almaṭālib al-Rāzī sets out a comprehensive case for the theologians’ materialism, before critiquing that position. This paper offers a reconstruction of al-Rāzī’s arguments for the theologians’ materialism, providing an insight into arguments in the philosophy of mind during the Islamic Middle Ages.
在他的智力生活的后期,Faḫr al- d n al-Rāzī支持灵魂本质的二元论立场,否认灵魂在任何意义上都是物质的身体。这种观点,在广义上与阿维森纳的一致,设置al-Rāzī反对神学家的唯物主义立场。为了阐明他的立场,Almaṭālib al-Rāzī在他的最后一部作品中,在批评神学家的唯物主义立场之前,为其提出了一个全面的案例。本文对al-Rāzī对神学家唯物主义的论证进行了重构,对伊斯兰中世纪心灵哲学的论证提供了一种洞察。
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Arabic Sciences and Philosophy (ASP) is an international journal devoted to the Arabic sciences, mathematics and philosophy in the world of Islam between the eighth and eighteenth centuries, in a cross-cultural context. In 2009, the journal extended its scope to include important papers on scientific modernization from the nineteenth century in the Islamic world. Together with original studies on the history of all these fields, ASP also offers work on the inter-relations between Arabic and Greek, Indian, Chinese, Latin, Byzantine, Syriac and Hebrew sciences and philosophy. Casting new light on the growth of these disciplines, as well as on the social and ideological context in which this growth took place, ASP is essential reading for those interested in these areas.