Averroes : Incoherence of the Incoherence

Ibn Rochd
TAHAFUT AL TAHAFUT
Translated from arabic with introduction and notes
By Simon Van Den Bergh


TABLE OF CONTENTS

VOLUME (I)


Preface



INTRODUCTION
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 God’s 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


ABOUT THE NATURAL SCIENCES


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 Aristotle’s System 215

Arabic-Greek Index to the Notes 216

Greek-Arabic Index to the Notes 218

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