This article develops an alternative reading of Avicenna’s conception of providence. I first examine whether he affirms the traditional theistic attributes of omniscience, omnipotence, and omnibenevolence that ground the standard view of providence, arguing that he implicitly denies them and thus renders his argument in
Ilāhīyyāt
IX.6 non-theodical. I then offer a positive account, proposing that Avicenna advances an ananthropocentric model of providence, which I call “holistic purposivism,” according to which the good of the whole determines the good of each part, making evil relative and eliminating absolute evil in an optimally ordered world.
As the most widely circulated early Ottoman gloss on Aristotelian-Avicennan natural philosophy, Ḫocazāde’s paratext on Mullāzāde’s commentary on Abharī’s
Hidāyat al-ḥikma
illuminates the reception and defense of hylomorphism in postclassical madrasas. Working largely within an Avicennan framework, this previously...
Abstract In the concluding chapter of Die Philosophie des Als Ob, Vaihinger offers an interpretation of Nietzsche’s epistemology in terms of his own fictionalism. Here, I suggest that Vaihinger’s interpretation is close to being correct, and that we still have much to learn from it. In particular, his reading promises...
This article examines the connection between Antonio Rosmini’s thought and the concept of spontaneous order developed by Friedrich A. Hayek. It argues that Rosmini’s political and economic liberalism is internally bound to his theistic and providential metaphysics, and that the middle term between the two is an “imperf...
Valentino Pellegrino· Journal of Markets & Mor...· 0 citations
summary:This article puts forward a new reading of Gregory of Nazianzus's long autobiographical poem On His Own Life (De vita sua). The poorly understood and depreciated aspects of this work—including the classicizing yet relatively exoteric meter, the recriminations against friends and colleagues, the historiographica...
In recent years forms of idealism influenced by Berkeley, Leibniz, and Mill have been defended, and metaphysicians and philosophers of mind have begun to appreciate some distinctive advantages that idealism has over materialist realism. One historical idealist has been conspicuously absent in this idealist revival: Hus...
James Kinkaid· Ergo, An Open Access Journal...· 0 citations
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