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Kalev’s Anti-Blog: Remarks on Cosmology: Part 1 The Eternal Cosmos
Ibn Rushd, known as Averroes, states in his epic Tahafut al-Tahafut (The Destruction of Destruction or Incoherence of Incoherence) that Aristotle’s great innovation was the speculation that the cosmos is eternal. This notion was decried especially by the mutakallimum and … Continue reading
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Tagged Aristotle, cosmology, cosmos, eide, eidos, energeia, god, Plato, prime mover, spheres, theos, thought thinking itself
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