نوع مقاله : علمی - پژوهشی
نویسنده
گروه تاریخ علم، پژوهشکده تاریخ و فلسفه علم، پژوهشگاه علوم انسانی و مطالعات فرهنگی، تهران، ایران.
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نویسنده [English]
The four natures hold a special and important place in the natural philosophy theories of Jabir ibn Hayyan, to the extent that his natural philosophy can be termed "the physics of natures." Few primary texts attributed to Jabir can be found that do not discuss the natures in detail. From a historical perspective, there are many similarities between Jabir's theories and those of natural philosophers before him regarding the four natures; however, some of his claims raise the hypothesis that Jabir's theory is distinct, particularly in terms of the ontology of the natures. The basis of Jabir's view, influenced by his thoroughly pragmatic perspective, is that qualities are independent, embodied entities that, like physical materials, can combine with one another or be separated from each other. Nevertheless, this hypothesis—the distinctiveness and novelty of Jabir's claim—requires analyzing and comparing his detailed theories on the subject of natures with the prominent and well-known physical traditions preceding him, namely the Aristotelian, Platonic, Stoic, and Neoplatonic traditions of natural philosophy. The main issue of this article is to explain the ontological status of the four natures in Jabir's thought and to assess the degree of its distinctiveness based on texts and content related to the subject.
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