Avicenna On The Necessity Of The Actual

Author : Celia Kathryn Hatherly
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781666904499

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Avicenna on the Necessity of the Actual by Celia Kathryn Hatherly Pdf

According to Avicenna, whatever exists, while it exists, exists of necessity. Not all beings, however, exist with the same kind of necessity. Instead, they exist either necessarily per se or necessarily per aliud. Avicenna on the Necessity of the Actual: His Interpretation of Four Aristotelian Arguments explains how Avicenna uses these modal claims to show that God is the efficient as well as the final cause of an eternally existing cosmos. In particular, Celia Kathryn Hatherly shows how Avicenna uses four Aristotelian arguments to prove this very un-Aristotelian conclusion. These arguments include Aristotle's argument for the finitude of efficient causes in Metaphysics 2; his proof for the prime mover in the Physics and Metaphysics 12; his argument against the Megarians in Metaphysics 9; and his argument for the mutual entailment between the necessary and the eternal in De Caelo 1.12. Moreover, Hatherly contends, when Avicenna's versions of these arguments are correctly interpreted using his distinctive understanding of necessity and possibility, the objections raised against them by his contemporaries and modern scholars fail.

Author : Daniel D. De Haan
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004434523

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Necessary Existence and the Doctrine of Being in Avicenna’s Metaphysics of the Healing by Daniel D. De Haan Pdf

In Necessary Existence and the Doctrine of Being in Avicenna’s Metaphysics of the Healing Daniel De Haan examines the primary notions being, thing, one, and necessary and their roles in the central argument of Avicenna’s metaphysical masterpiece.

Author : Peter Adamson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521190732

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Interpreting Avicenna by Peter Adamson Pdf

This volume examines many aspects of the philosophy of Avicenna, the greatest philosopher of the Islamic world.

Author : Robert Wisnovsky
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781501711527

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Avicenna's Metaphysics in Context by Robert Wisnovsky Pdf

The eleventh-century philosopher and physician Abu Ali ibn Sina (d. A.D. 1037) was known in the West by his Latinized name Avicenna. An analysis of the sources and evolution of Avicenna's metaphysics, this book focuses on the answers he and his predecessors gave to two fundamental pairs of questions: what is the soul and how does it cause the body; and what is God and how does He cause the world? To respond to these challenges, Avicenna invented new concepts and distinctions and reinterpreted old ones. The author concludes that Avicenna's innovations are a turning point in the history of metaphysics. Avicenna's metaphysics is the culmination of a period of synthesis during which philosophers fused together a Neoplatonic project (reconciling Plato with Aristotle) with a Peripatetic project (reconciling Aristotle with himself). Avicenna also stands at the beginning of a period during which philosophers sought to integrate the Arabic version of the earlier synthesis with Islamic doctrinal theology (kalam). Avicenna's metaphysics significantly influenced European scholastic thought, but it had an even more profound impact on Islamic intellectual history—the philosophical problems and opportunities associated with the Avicennian synthesis continued to be debated up to the end of the nineteenth century.

Author : Avicenna,Silvia Di Vincenzo
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110726565

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Avicenna, ›The Healing, Logic: Isagoge‹ by Avicenna,Silvia Di Vincenzo Pdf

This book offers a new edition, with English translation and commentary, of the Kitāb al-Madḫal, which opens Avicenna’s (d. 1037) most comprehensive summa of Peripatetic philosophy, namely the Kitāb al-Šifāʾ. For the first time, the text is established together with a stemma codicum showing the genealogical relations among 34 manuscripts, the twelfth-century Latin translation, and the literal quotations by Avicenna’s first and second-generation students. In this book, Avicenna’s reappraisal of Porphyry’s Isagoge is examined from both a historical and a philosophical point of view. The key-features of Avicenna’s theory of predicables are analyzed in the General Introduction and in the Commentary both in their own right and against the background of the Greek and Arabic exegetical tradition. Readers shall find in this book the first systematic study of the Madḫal which, in addition to being the only logical work of the Šifāʾ ever transmitted in its entirety both in Arabic and in Latin, is crucial for understanding Avicenna’s conception of universal predicables at the crossroads between logic and metaphysics.

Author : Avicenna Study Group. Conference
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004139602

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Interpreting Avicenna by Avicenna Study Group. Conference Pdf

The work treats various aspects of Avicennan philosophy and science. The topics include methods for establishing an authentic Avicenna corpus, natural philosophy and science, theology and metaphysics and Avicenna's subsequent historical influence.

Author : L E Goodman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134977796

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Avicenna by L E Goodman Pdf

the philosophers in the West, none, perhaps, is better known by name and less familiar in actual content of his ideas than the medieval Muslim philosopher, physician, minister and naturalist Abu Ali Ibn Sina, known since the days of the scholastics as Avicenna. In this book the author, himself a philosopher, and long known for his studies of Arabic thought, presents a factual account of Avicenna's philosophy. Setting the thinker in the context of his often turbulent times and tracing the roots and influences of Avicenna's ideas, this book offers a factual philosophical portrait. It details Avicenna's account of being as a synthesis between the seemingly irreconcilable extremes of Aristotelian eternalism and the creationism of monotheistic scripture. It examines Avicenna's distinctive theory of knowledge, his ideas about immortality and individuality, including the famous "floating man argument", his contributions to logic, and his probing thoughts on rhetoric and poetics.

Author : Jon McGinnis
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780195331479

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Avicenna by Jon McGinnis Pdf

Ibn Sina -- Avicenna in Latin -- (980-1037) played a considerable role in the development of both eastern and western philosophy and science. This book provides a general introduction to Avicenna's intellectual system and offer a careful philosophical analysis of most of the major aspects of his thought, presented in such a way as to be accessible to students as well as serving as a resource for specialists in Islamic studies, philosophers, and historians of science.

Author : Parviz Morewedge
Publisher : International Medieval & Early Modern Studies
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UVA:X004844640

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The Mystical Philosophy of Avicenna by Parviz Morewedge Pdf

Author : Rahim Acar
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789047415923

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Talking about God and Talking about Creation by Rahim Acar Pdf

This study compares Avicenna’s and Thomas Aquinas’ conceptions of God, theological language, the nature of creative action and the beginning of the universe. It emphasizes the connection between their positions regarding theological language and their discussions of creation.

Author : Avicenna,Ab? ?Al? al-?usayn b. ?Abd All?h Ibn S?n?,?Abd al-W??id J?zj?n?
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1974-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 087395226X

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The Life of Ibn Sina by Avicenna,Ab? ?Al? al-?usayn b. ?Abd All?h Ibn S?n?,?Abd al-W??id J?zj?n? Pdf

Author : Mones Abu-Asab,Hakima Amri,Marc S. Micozzi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781620551707

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Avicenna’s Medicine by Mones Abu-Asab,Hakima Amri,Marc S. Micozzi Pdf

The first contemporary translation of the 1,000-year-old text at the foundation of modern medicine and biology • Presents the actual words of Avicenna translated directly from the original Arabic, removing the inaccuracies and errors of most translators • Explains current medical interpretations and ways to apply Avicenna’s concepts today, particularly for individualized medicine • Reveals how Avicenna’s understanding of the “humors” corresponds directly with the biomedical classes known today as proteins, lipids, and organic acids A millennium after his life, Avicenna remains one of the most highly regarded physicians of all time. His Canon of Medicine, also known as the Qanun, is one of the most famous and influential books in the history of medicine, forming the basis for our modern understanding of human health and disease. It focused not simply on the treatment of symptoms, but on finding the cause of illness through humoral diagnosis—a method still used in traditional Unani and Ayurvedic medicines in India. Originally written in Arabic, Avicenna’s Canon was long ago translated into Latin, Persian, and Urdu, yet many of the inaccuracies from those first translations linger in current English translations. Translated directly from the original Arabic, this volume includes detailed commentary to explain current biomedical interpretations of Avicenna’s theories and ways to apply his treatments today, particularly for individualized medicine. It shows how Avicenna’s understanding of the humors corresponds directly with the biomedical definition of proteins, lipids, and organic acids: the nutrient building blocks of our blood and body. With this new translation of the first volume of his monumental work, Avicenna’s Canon becomes just as relevant today as it was 1,000 years ago.

Author : Soheil M. Afnan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317378594

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Avicenna by Soheil M. Afnan Pdf

This book, first published in 1958, examines the life and works of Avicenna, one of the most provocative figures in the history of thought in the East. It shows him in the right historical perspective, as the product of the impact of Greek thought on Islamic teachings against the background of the Persian Renaissance in the tenth century. His attitude can be of guidance to those in the East who are meeting the challenge of Western civilization; and to those in the West who have yet to find a basis on which to harmonize scientific with spiritual values.

Author : Peter Adamson,Fedor Benevich
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004503991

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The Heirs of Avicenna: Philosophy in the Islamic East, 12-13th Centuries by Peter Adamson,Fedor Benevich Pdf

This is the first in a series of sourcebooks charting the reception of Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā, d.1037) in the Islamic East (from Syria to central Asia) in the 12th-13th centuries CE. Avicenna was the dominant philosophical authority in this period, who provoked generations of thinkers to subtle critique, defense, and development of his ideas. The series will translate and analyze hundreds of passages from works by such figures as al-Ghazālī, al-Suhrawardī, Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī, Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, and many more. This volume focuses especially on issues in metaphysics, dealing with topics like the essence-existence distinction, the problem of universals, free will and determinism, Platonic Forms, good and evil, proofs of God’s existence, and the relationship between philosophy and theology.

Author : Amos Bertolacci
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 693 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2006-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789047408710

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The Reception of Aristotle's Metaphysics in Avicenna's Kitāb al-Šifā' by Amos Bertolacci Pdf

The systematic comparison of Avicenna’s Ilāhiyyāt of the Šifā' with Aristotle’s Metaphysics, accomplished for the first time in the present volume, provides a detailed account of Avicenna’s reworking of the epistemological profile and contents of the Metaphysics and a comprehensive investigation of this latter’s transmission in pre-Avicennian Greek and Arabic philosophy.