Alhassanain(p) Network for Heritage and Islamic Thought

BETWEEN PHYSICS AND METAPHYSICS [MULLA SADRA ON NATURE AND MOTION]

This book is corrected and edited by Al-Hassanain (p) Institue for Islamic Heritage and Thought

• Abstract
• [Intoduction]
• The Aristotelian Framework: Motion as the Actualization of Potentiality
• Two Meanings of Motion
• The Mover and the Moving Body
• How Things are Set in Motion
• Nature as the Immediate Cause of Motion
• Nature as the Principle of Change and Permanence
• Category of Motion
• Problem of Quantitative Change
• Identity and Endurance of Physical Bodies
• Change and Identity in Physical Bodies
• Natural forms of material substances share similar characteristics
• Concluding Remarks
• Notes