physics
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
nature · the system of nature · الطبيعيات
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On Moral Ends
The study of nature and the cosmos, classified by the Stoics as a virtue necessary for ethical judgment and piety
To physics also the same honour is not without cause assigned, because he who is to live consistently with nature must set out from the whole world and from its governance.
Kitāb mīzān al-ḥaqq fī al-manṭiq
Natural science, named alongside metaphysics as annexed to logic by the Arabic authors
and all the authors of the Arabs followed their example, though some of them kept a middle course and some expanded at length — except that most of them joined it to metaphysics (al-ilāhīyāt) and physics (al-ṭabīʻyāt).