Agency and Effect in the Astrology of Abū Maʿshar of Balkh (Albumasar)

IF 0.5 3区社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Oriens Pub Date : 2019-11-01 DOI:10.1163/18778372-04800100

C. Burnett

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Abstract

The aim of this paper is to show how the ninth-century astrologer, Abū Maʿshar Jaʿfar b. Muḥammad b. ʿUmar al-Balkhī, accounted for generation, corruption and change in the sublunary world. He sides with the philosophers against the astrologers and takes as his principal source the Peripatetic tradition. He shows that it is the movements of the heavenly bodies, rather than their elemental qualities, that are responsible for all elemental changes, and that these changes ‘result from,’ or follow naturally from, those movements rather than are caused by them.

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巴尔赫的AbúMaʿshar在占星术中的作用

本文的目的是展示九世纪的占星家阿布·马沙尔·贾·法尔布·穆ḥ奥马尔·巴尔基（Umar al-Balkhī）解释了月球下世界的世代、腐败和变化。他站在哲学家一边反对占星家，并将流浪传统作为他的主要来源。他表明，是天体的运动，而不是它们的基本性质，才是所有基本变化的原因，这些变化是“由这些运动产生的”或自然产生的，而不是由它们引起的。

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