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What to expect
The lecture discusses Averroes' views on time in his Incoherence of the Incoherence and his response to al-Ghazālī.
- Speaker: Taneli Kukkonen
- He is at New York University Abu Dhabi
- Focus: Aristotle, Averroes, al-Ghazālī
FAQ
Who is the speaker?
Taneli Kukkonen (New York University Abu Dhabi).
Author of Ibn Tufayl (2014) and 40+ research articles in Arabic philosophy and the Aristotelian tradition.
Has translated al-Ghazālī's autobiography and his treatise on God's Beautiful Names into Finnish.
Is completing a monograph on al-Ghazālī and launching a project on 'vice in global perspective.'
What is the lecture about?
The lecture looks at Ibn Rushd (Latin Averroes, d. 595AH/1198CE) and his Incoherence of the Incoherence.
It focuses on his response to al-Ghazālī (d. 505AH/1111CE), whose arguments against an infinite past drew on John Philoponus' earlier critique of Aristotle.
The essay argues that Averroes uses a subjectivist view of time: time needs a counting subject to be real.
For Averroes, God is not such a subject, because divine knowledge does not concern particular events or entities.
It links this to Aristotle's Physics and later Christian and Jewish readings.
How do I register?
Use the Radboud University event page: **ru.nl
Who organizes it?
Center for the History of Philosophy and Science.
Getting there
Radboud Universiteit, Houtlaan 4, 6525 XZ Nijmegen, Gelderland, NL
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