The book of causes (Liber de Causis). Translated from the Latin with an introduction.

by Kurt Brand

Paperback

Published January 1, 1981

About the author

Kurt Brand was a German science fiction author who wrote almost a thousand novels over his career, mostly in pulp booklet form.

He wrote under a number of pseudonyms, including C. R. Munro, Buster Brack, Conny Cuba, Cherry Moss, Lex Porter, and Lars Torsten.

Reviews

[Maria Schmidt · Rating 4 out of 5]

Al-Kindi explicates numerous helpful propositions about cause and effect, Being, Intelligence, Soul, and Nature. My favorite propositions include: 1) the prime cause remains with the effect even if the secondary cause is removed, 2) separate substances are necessarily intelligent, 3) the effect pre-exists in the cause and the cause remains in the effect.