Ibn-Rushd (Averroes). The Incoherence of the Incoherence. Part Three

This series of publications is a translation of selected sections from the book “The Incoherence of the Incoherence” ( Tahafut at-Tahafut ) of peripatetic philosopher Ibn Rushd (Averroes, d. 1198), written in response to the book of asharite mutakallim al-Ghazali (d. 1111) “The Incoherence of the Philosophers” ( Tahafut al-Falasifa ). In this part Ibn Rushd examines the second of two objections raised by al-Ghazali against the main proof for the eternity of the world – “from complete cause” (in Ghazali’s wording, “impossibility of the temporal proceeding from absolute eternity”), as well as his criticism of another proof based on the eternity of time (in two formulations).