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The Reception of Avicenna's Theory of Motion in the Twelfth Century (2016)

Arabic Sciences and Philosophy
Volume: 26
Issue: 2
Pages: 215-243

DOI: 10.1017/S0957423916000023

URI: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/arabic-sciences-and-philosophy/article/div-classtitlethe-reception-of-avicennaandaposs-theory-of-motion-in-the-twelfth-centurydiv/85EF5D5AEDC78A6459C920B02945B39A

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This article explores the reception of Avicenna's theories of motion in the sixth/twelfth century. Avicenna had devised innovative ways of understanding motion in response to various challenges and conditions that the preceding philosophical tradition and his own internal critique had posed. Motion for him was either the state of being between two termini or the traversal of an interval, where the former of these was the extramentally real type and the latter a product of the imagination. In the sixth/twelfth century, the implicit critique of some leading scholars led to the adoption of the thesis in some circles that motion by traversal is extramentally real. This position was accepted as viable both by those who endorsed the atomic and the continuous theory of bodies., RésuméCet article se penche sur la réception des théories avicenniennes du mouvement au VIe/XIIe siècle. Avicenne a conçu des façons innovantes de comprendre le mouvement, répondant à la fois aux défis et conditions établis par la tradition philosophique antérieure et à ceux qui naissent de sa critique interne. Le mouvement est pour lui soit le mode d’être entre deux termes, soit le passage ou l'intervalle, le premier étant le type de mouvement extra-mentalement réel, tandis que le second est un produit de l'imagination. Au VIe/XIIe siècle, la critique implicite conduite par certains savants prééminents aboutit, dans certains cercles, à l'adoption de la thèse selon laquelle le mouvement-passage est extra-mentalement réel. Cette position était jugée viable aussi bien par les tenants de l'atomisme que par ceux de la théorie de la continuité des corps.

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