The Elements Of Avicenna S Physics

Author : Andreas Lammer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110546088

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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. This monograph has been awarded the annual BRAIS – De Gruyter Prize in the Study of Islam and the Muslim World.

Author : Dag Nikolaus Hasse,Amos Bertolacci
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 51,6 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 : Dag Nikolaus Hasse,Amos Bertolacci
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781614519355

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

Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā) greatly influenced later medieval thinking about the earth and the cosmos, not only in his own civilization, but also in Hebrew and Latin cultures. The studies presented in this volume discuss the reception of prominent theories by Avicenna from the early 11th century onwards by thinkers like Averroes, Fahraddin ar-Razi, Samuel ibn Tibbon or Albertus Magnus. Among the topics which receive particular attention are the definition and existence of motion and time. Other important topics are covered too, such as Avicenna’s theories of vacuum, causality, elements, substantial change, minerals, floods and mountains. It emerges, among other things, that Avicenna inherited to the discussion an acute sense for the epistemological status of natural science and for the mental and concrete existence of its objects. The volume also addresses the philological and historical circumstances of the textual tradition and sheds light on the translators Dominicus Gundisalvi, Avendauth and Alfred of Sareshel in particular. The articles of this volume are presented by scholars who convened in 2013 to discuss their research on the influence of Avicenna’s physics and cosmology in the Villa Vigoni, Italy.

Author : Andreas Lammer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 55,7 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.

Author : Neil Arnott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1829
Category : Physics
ISBN : HARVARD:32044019941483

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Elements of Physics, Or Natural Philosophy, General and Medical by Neil Arnott Pdf

Author : Jon McGinnis
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 52,7 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 : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004504455

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Received Opinions: Doxography in Antiquity and the Islamic World by Anonim Pdf

This volume brings together, for the first time, experts on Greek, Syriac, and Arabic traditions of doxography, in order to investigate and present shared contexts and questions, and to initiate future collaboration among the fields of classics, Arabic studies, and the history of philosophy.

Author : Richard Cross
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0198269749

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The Physics of Duns Scotus by Richard Cross Pdf

This text contains detailed discussion and analysis of Dun Scotus's accounts of the nature of matter and the structure of material substance. His views on these matters are sophisticated and highly original.

Author : Nicholas Allan Aubin
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783111325088

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Power and Possibility in Early Arabic Philosophy by Nicholas Allan Aubin Pdf

"The world is a finite body, and therefore has finite power." John Philoponus is remembered for using this Aristotelian premise to break ranks with Aristotle and argue that the world is not everlasting. This investigation reconsiders Philoponus’s arguments from finite power, and then explores the aftermath of this line of thinking in the works of three lesser-known Arabic intellectuals active in the generation before Avicenna (d. 1037): Abū l-Ḫayr Ibn Suwār (d. after 1017), Abū al-Ḥasan al-ʿĀmirī (d. 992), and Abū Sahl al-Masīḥī (d. after 1025). Each engaged with this dictum in unique and novel ways, and in so doing anticipated a number of central features of Avicenna’s writings. The history of this argument is of crucial importance for understanding the evolution of natural philosophy and metaphysics in this formative period, away from tedious and simplistic arguments about creation and towards a more robust modal ontology based on intrinsic and extrinsic necessity.

Author : Peter Adamson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192662675

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Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna): A Very Short Introduction by Peter Adamson Pdf

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring This book provides an introduction to the most important philosopher of the Islamic world, Ibn Sīnā, often known in English by his Latinized name Avicenna. After introducing the man and his works, with an overview of the historical context in which he lived, the book devotes chapters to the different areas of Ibn Sīnā's thought. Among the topics covered are his innovations in logic, his theory of the human soul and its powers, the relation between his medical writings and his philosophy, and his metaphysics of existence. Particular attention is given to two famous arguments: his flying man thought experiment and the so-called “demonstration of the truthful,” a proof for the existence of God as the Necessary Existent. A distinctive feature of the book is its attention to the relationship between Ibn Sīnā and Islamic rational theology (kalām): in which we see how Ibn Sīnā responded to this tradition in many areas of his thought. A final chapter looks at Ibn Sīnā's legacy in both the Islamic world and in Latin Christendom. Here Adamson focuses on the critical responses to Ibn Sīnā in subsequent generations by such figures as al-Ghazālī, al-Suhrawardī, and Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Author : S. Frederick Starr
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780197675557

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The Genius of Their Age by S. Frederick Starr Pdf

A portrait of the Arab enlightenment and its key figures, Ibn Sina and Biruni. In The Genius of Their Age, S. Frederick Starr brings to vibrant life an age when Muslim scientists and philosophers from Central Asia anticipated the Western renaissance of science by half a millennium.

Author : David Charles,Howard H Newman Professor of Philosophy and Classics David Charles
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192897664

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The History of Hylomorphism by David Charles,Howard H Newman Professor of Philosophy and Classics David Charles Pdf

Although Aristotle was not the first to understand objects in terms of their matter and their form, the account he developed has exercised a major influence on Western philosophy to this day. The History of Hylomorphism: From Aristotle to Descartes collects sixteen essays by experts that consider aspects of the first two thousand years of the history of hylomorphism, starting with Aristotle's immediate successors and ending with Descartes. It includes discussions of Hellenistic, Roman, Arabic, medieval, and early modern philosophers, examining the ways in which Aristotle's central ideas and concepts were progressively modified by these thinkers. Hylomorphism, as we understand it today, owes much to the way in which it was interpreted, and re-interpreted, during this period. Through a study of their work we can see how questions in contemporary metaphysics and philosophy of mind, such as Descartes's mind-body problem, came to be formulated.

Author : Neil Arnott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1831
Category : Physics
ISBN : NYPL:33433084032576

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Elements of Physics, Or, Natural Philosophy, General and Medical by Neil Arnott Pdf

Author : Riccardo Strobino
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780520297470

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Avicenna's Theory of Science by Riccardo Strobino Pdf

Avicenna is the most influential figure in the intellectual history of the Islamic world. This book is the first comprehensive study of his theory of science, which profoundly shaped his philosophical method and indirectly influenced philosophers and theologians not only in the Islamic world but also throughout Christian Europe and the medieval Jewish tradition. A sophisticated interpreter of Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics, Avicenna took on the ambitious task of reorganizing Aristotelian philosophy of science into an applicable model of scientific reasoning, striving to identify conditions of certainty for scientific assertions and conditions of adequacy for real definitions. Riccardo Strobino combines philosophical and textual analysis to explore the scope and nature of Avicenna’s contributions to the logic of scientific reasoning in his effort to recalibrate Aristotle’s model and overcome some of its internal limitations. Focusing on a broad array of philosophical innovations at the intersection of logic, metaphysics, and epistemology, this book casts light on an essential aspect of the thought of the preeminent philosopher and physician of the Islamic world.

Author : Abdelkader Al Ghouz
Publisher : V&R Unipress
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783847009009

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Islamic Philosophy from the 12th to the 14th Century by Abdelkader Al Ghouz Pdf

This volume is based on the ongoing studies on post-Avicennian philosophy in the context of naturalising philosophy and science in Islam from the 12th to the 14th century – a topic that deserves the special attention of historians of Islamic intellectual history. The contributors address the following questions using case studies: What was philosophy all about from the 12th to the 14th century? And how did Muslim scholars react to it during the period under consideration? The present volume approaches complex philosophical topics from different angles and is structured around six main sections: 1. Historical and Social Approaches to Philosophy, 2. Knowing the Unknown, 3. God, Man and the Physical World, 4. Universals, 5. Logic and Intellect, and 6. Anthropomorphism and Incorporealism.