An Early Nominalist Critique of Platonic Realism: Ibn Ḥazm's Metaphysics of the Created Corporeal World

This study examines how Ibn Ḥazm (d. 456 AH/1064 CE) articulated his nominalist critique of Platonic realism in the context of a larger rejection of ontological dualism in philosophy. It draws on evidence in Al-Fiṣal fī l-Milal wa-l-Ahwāʿ wa-l-Niḥal (The Book of Opinions on Religions, Heresies, and...

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Main Author: Akhtar, Ali Humayun (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press [2019]
In: Harvard theological review
Year: 2019, Volume: 112, Issue: 4, Pages: 541-554
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Ibn-Ḥazm, ʿAlī Ibn-Aḥmad 994-1064 / Nominalism / Bodiliness
IxTheo Classification:BJ Islam
NBC Doctrine of God
NBE Anthropology
TG High Middle Ages
Further subjects:B Ashʿarism
B Ẓāhirism
B Scholasticism
B Neoplatonism
B history of science
B Nominalism
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