Avicenna S Metaphysics In Context

Author : Robert Wisnovsky
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 51,5 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 : Daniel D. De Haan
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 53,9 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 : Robert Wisnovsky
Publisher : Princeton, NJ : Markus Wiener Pub.
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Art and literature
ISBN : UOM:39015054256733

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Aspects of Avicenna by Robert Wisnovsky Pdf

By addressing some of the most fundamental issues in Avicenna's psychology, epistemology, natural philosophy and metaphysics, this work aims to make Avicenna's thought more accessible to Latinists and Islamicists alike.

Author : Daniel D. De Haan
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 49,9 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 : Rahim Acar
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 53,7 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 : Felicitas Opwis,David Reisman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004202740

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Islamic Philosophy, Science, Culture, and Religion by Felicitas Opwis,David Reisman Pdf

This collection of essays covers the classical heritage and Islamic culture, classical Arabic science and philosophy, and Muslim religious sciences, showing continuation of Greek and Persian thought as well as original Muslim contributions to the sciences, philosophy, religion, and culture of Islam.

Author : Dag Nikolaus Hasse,Amos Bertolacci
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110215762

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The Arabic, Hebrew and Latin Reception of Avicenna's Metaphysics by Dag Nikolaus Hasse,Amos Bertolacci Pdf

Avicenna’s Metaphysics (in Arabic: Ilâhiyyât) is the most important and influential metaphysical treatise of classical and medieval times after Aristotle. This volume presents studies on its direct and indirect influence in Arabic, Hebrew, and Latin culture from the time of its composition in the early eleventh century until the sixteenth century. Among the philosophical topics which receive particular attention are the distinction between essence and existence, the theory of universals, the concept of God as the necessary being and the theory of emanation. It is shown how authors such as Averroes, Abraham ibn Daud, Albertus Magnus, Thomas Aquinas and John Duns Scotus react to Avicenna’s metaphysical theories. The studies also address the philological and historical circumstances of the textual tradition in three different medieval cultures. The studies are written by a distinguished international team of contributors, who convened in 2008 to discuss their research in the Villa Vigoni, Italy.

Author : Amos Bertolacci
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 693 pages
File Size : 53,9 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.

Author : Muhammad al-Shahrastani
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2001-09-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780857717115

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Struggling with the Philosopher by Muhammad al-Shahrastani Pdf

I.B. Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies Muhammad b. Abd al-Karim al-Shahrastani was one of the most learned and enigmatic scholars of medieval Islam. In his work, 'Kitab al-Musara'a' ('Struggling with the Philosopher'), which is published here in English translation (together with its original Arabic text) for the first time, al-Shahrastani gives a detailed critique of the metaphysics of the great Persian philosopher Avicenna. The greater part of his 'intellectual wrestling match' ('musara'a') is devoted to refuting Avicenna's interpretation of the 'Necessary Being' which, he argues, compromises the absolute transcendence of God. For al-Shahrastani, God is beyond human comprehension and above all opposites such as existence and non-existence, unity and multiplicity, good and evil, or truth and falsehood. This work is a strong indication of the rich diversity and eclecticism that characterised intellectual discourse in medieval Islam. 'Struggling with the Philosopher' is an important document of Islamic intellectual history. As such, it is essential reading and a reference text for students of Islamic studies and scholars interested in the medieval Islamic world.

Author : Peter Adamson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 55,9 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 : Damien Janos
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 961 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110651218

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Avicenna on the Ontology of Pure Quiddity by Damien Janos Pdf

This study focuses on the metaphysics of the great Arabic philosopher Avicenna (or Ibn Sīnā, d. 1037 C.E.). More specifically, it delves into Avicenna’s theory of quiddity or essence, a topic which seized the attention of thinkers both during the medieval and modern periods. Building on recent contributions in Avicennian studies, this book proposes a new and comprehensive interpretation of Avicenna’s theory of ‘the pure quiddity’ (also known as ‘the quiddity in itself’) and of its ontology. The study provides a careful philological analysis of key passages gleaned from the primary sources in Arabic and a close philosophical contextualization of Avicenna’s doctrines in light of the legacy of ancient Greek philosophy in Islam and the early development of Arabic philosophy (falsafah) and theology (kalām). The study pays particular attention to how Avicenna’s theory of quiddity relates to the ancient Greek philosophical discussion about the universals or common things and Mu’tazilite ontology. Its main thesis is that Avicenna articulated a sophisticated doctrine of the ontology of essence in light of Greek and Bahshamite sources, which decisively shaped subsequent intellectual history in Islam and the Latin West.

Author : Parviz Morewedge
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317366119

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The 'Metaphysica' of Avicenna (ibn Sīnā) by Parviz Morewedge Pdf

In this book, first published in 1973, Professor Parviz Morewedge, an expert on Islamic philosophy and mysticism, provides a critical exposition of one text of ibn Sina (Avicenna), the great Persian philosopher who lived from 980 to 1037. The text is his Metaphysica in the Danish Nama-I ‘ala’I (The Book of Scientific Knowledge). In addition to a translation of the text from Persian into English, this edition includes a critical commentary on the major arguments found in the text, and notes and references to other texts of ibn Sina as well as to relevant texts of Greek philosophers, particularly Aristotle, Plotinus and Proclus. There is also a glossary of the key terms used in the Metaphysica, with their Persian, Arabic, Greek and Latin equivalents where necessary. This book is concerned primarily to show that although in the text ibn Sina resorts to the Aristotelian vocabulary and Neo-Platonic themes, and appears to be in accord with the Islamic tradition, there is evidence that many doctrines expressed by him may be considered non-Greek and non-Islamic. These include his peculiar doctrine of Self (nafs) and the doctrine of the Necessary Existent (wajib al-wujud). The author attempts to clarify the extent to which salient features of ibn Sina’s position are in agreement with what may be regarded as Sufic doctrines.

Author : L E Goodman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134977802

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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 : Avicenna,Parviz Morewedge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:989289199

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Metaphysics of Avicenna (ibn Sina) a Critical Translation-commentary and Analysis of the Fundamental Arguments in Avicenna's Metaphysics in the Danish Nama-i'ala'i (The Book of Scientific Knowledge) by Avicenna,Parviz Morewedge Pdf

Author : Andreas Lammer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110546798

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The Elements of Avicenna's Physics by Andreas Lammer Pdf

This study is the first comprehensive analysis of the physical theory of the Islamic philosopher Avicenna (d. 1037). It seeks to understand his contribution against the developments within the preceding Greek and Arabic intellectual milieus, and to appreciate his philosophy as such by emphasising his independence as a critical and systematic thinker. Exploring Avicenna’s method of "teaching and learning," it investigates the implications of his account of the natural body as a three-dimensionally extended composite of matter and form, and examines his views on nature as a principle of motion and his analysis of its relation to soul. Moreover, it demonstrates how Avicenna defends the Aristotelian conception of place against the strident criticism of his predecessors, among other things, by disproving the existence of void and space. Finally, it sheds new light on Avicenna’s account of the essence and the existence of time. For the first time taking into account the entire range of Avicenna’s major writings, this study fills a gap in our understanding both of the history of natural philosophy in general and of the philosophy of Avicenna in particular.