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Book Synopsis The Eudaimonist Ethics of al-Fārābī and Avicenna by : Janne Mattila
Download or read book The Eudaimonist Ethics of al-Fārābī and Avicenna written by Janne Mattila and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-04-25 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available in Open Access thanks to the support of the University of Helsinki. Al-Fārābī and Avicenna are the two most influential authors of the classical period of Arabic philosophy, yet their ethical thought has been largely overlooked by scholars. In this book, Janne Mattila provides the first comprehensive account of the ethics of these important philosophers. The book argues that even if neither of them wrote a major ethical work, their ethical writings form a coherent ethical system, especially when understood in the context of philosophical psychology, cosmology, and metaphysics. The resulting ethical theory is, moreover, not derivative of their classical predecessors in any simple way. The book will appeal to those with interest in Arabic/Islamic philosophy, Islamic intellectual history, classical philosophy, and the history of moral philosophy.
Book Synopsis Avicenna and the Aristotelian Tradition by : Dimitri Gutas
Download or read book Avicenna and the Aristotelian Tradition written by Dimitri Gutas and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-07-11 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second, revised and updated, edition of this foundational work introducing a reading of Avicenna's philosophical works that is consistent with his intention and purpose in philosophy. Its usefulness is enhanced with a new appendix offering a critical inventory of Avicenna's authentic works that incorporates and updates Mahdavi (1954).
Download or read book Avicenna written by L E Goodman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Avicenna written by Lenn Evan Goodman and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this updated edition of his classic work, Lenn E. Goodman provides a concise introduction to the life and thought of Abu Ali al-Husain ibn Abdallah ibn Sina, known as Avicenna, who was born in the year 980 C.E. near Bokhara in what is now Uzbekistan and died 1037 C.E. in Hamadan, now in Iran.
Book Synopsis The Poetics of Alfarabi and Avicenna by : Salim Kemal
Download or read book The Poetics of Alfarabi and Avicenna written by Salim Kemal and published by Brill. This book was released on 1991 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an original and important study of philosophical issues in medieval Arabic poetics. Examining the commentaries on Aristotle's Poetics by Avicenna in the context of Aristotle's logical theory, the author shows how the philosophers justified the logical and moral power of poetic discourse.
Download or read book Avicenna written by G. M. Wickens and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Avicenna's Al-Shifā' by : Sari Nusseibeh
Download or read book Avicenna's Al-Shifā' written by Sari Nusseibeh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-09 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with the philosophy of Ibn Sina - Avicenna as he was known in the Latin West- a Persian Muslim who lived in the eleventh century, considered one of the most important figures in the history of philosophy. Although much has been written about Avicenna, and especially about his major philosophical work, Al-Shifa, this book presents the rationalist Avicenna in an entirely new light, showing him to have presented a theory where our claims of knowledge about the world are in effect just that, claims, and must therefore be underwritten by our faith in God. His project enlists arguments in psychology as well as in language and logic. In a sense, the ceiling he puts on the reach of reason can be compared with later rationalists in the Western tradition, from Descartes to Kant –though, unlike Descartes, he does not deem it necessary to reconstruct his theory of knowledge via a proof of the existence of God. Indeed, Avicenna’s theory presents the concept of God as being necessarily presupposed by our theory of knowledge, and God as the Necessary Being who is presupposed by an existing world where nothing of itself is what it is by an intrinsic nature, and must therefore be as it is due to an external cause. The detailed and original analysis of Avicenna’s work here is presented as what he considered to be his own, or ‘oriental’ philosophy. Presenting an innovative interpretation of Avicenna’s thought, this book will appeal to scholars working on classical Islamic philosophy, kalām and the History of Logic.
Book Synopsis Analytic Philosophy and Avicenna by : Mohammad Azadpur
Download or read book Analytic Philosophy and Avicenna written by Mohammad Azadpur and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work engages in a constructive, yet subtle, dialogue with the nuanced accounts of sensory intentionality and empirical knowledge offered by the Islamic philosopher Avicenna. This discourse has two main objectives: (1) providing an interpretation of Avicenna’s epistemology that avoids reading him as a precursor to British empiricists or as a full-fledged emanatist and (2) bringing light to the importance of Avicenna’s account of experience to relevant contemporary Anglo-American discussions in epistemology and metaphysics. These two objectives are interconnected. Anglo-American philosophy provides the framework for a novel reading of Avicenna on knowledge and reality, and the latter, in turn, contributes to adjusting some aspects of the former. Advancing the Avicennian perspective on contemporary analytic discourse, this volume is a key resource for researchers and students interested in comparative and analytic epistemology and metaphysics as well as Islamic philosophy.
Book Synopsis Avicenna and the Aristotelian Tradition by : Dimitri Gutas
Download or read book Avicenna and the Aristotelian Tradition written by Dimitri Gutas and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 649 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through close study of Avicenna's statements and major works, Dimitri Gutas traces Avicenna's own sense of his place in the Aristotelian tradition and the history of philosophy in Islam, and provides an introduction to reading his philosophical works by delineating the approach most consistent with Avicenna's intention and purpose in philosophy. The second edition of this foundational work, which has quickened fruitful research into the philosopher in the last quarter century, is completely revised and updated, and adds a new final chapter summarizing Avicenna's philosophical project. It is also enlarged with the addition of a new appendix which offers a critical inventory of Avicenna's authentic works, updating the work of Mahdavi (1954) with additional information on all manuscripts and important editions and translations. Its usefulness enhanced, the book provides primary orientation to Avicenna's philosophy and works and constitutes an indispensable research tool for their study. Winner of the I. R. Iran World Award for the Book of the Year 2014
Book Synopsis Avicenna's Metaphysics in Context by : Robert Wisnovsky
Download or read book Avicenna's Metaphysics in Context written by Robert Wisnovsky and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1. Aristotle / Perfection in the definitions of the soul and of change -- 2. Alexander and Themistius / Attempts at reconciliation -- 3. Proclus, Ammonius and Asclepius / The neoplatonic turn to causation -- 4. Proclus, Ammonius and Asclepius / Neoplatonic perfection and Aristotelian soul -- 5. Greek into Arabic / The Greco-Arabic translations and the early Arabic philosophers -- 6. Avicenna on perfection and the soul / The issue of separability -- 7. Essence and existence (A) / Materials from the Kalam and al-Farabi -- 8. Essence and existence (B) / Shay'iyya or Sababiyya? -- 9. Essence and existence (C) / The question of evolution -- 10. Causal self-sufficiency vs. causal productivity -- 11. Necessity and possibilty (A) / Materials from the Arabic Aristotle -- 12. Necessity and possibility (B) / Materials from al-Farabi -- 13. Necessity and possibility (C) / Materials from the Kalam -- 14. Necessity and possibility (D) / The question of evolution -- Conclusion -- Appendix I : Tables of Greco-Arabic translation -- Appendix II : transcriptions of Lemmata from MS Uppsala Or. 364.
Download or read book Avicenna written by Jon McGinnis and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2010 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Chance and Determinism in Avicenna and Averroës by : Catarina Carriço Marques de Moura Belo
Download or read book Chance and Determinism in Avicenna and Averroës written by Catarina Carriço Marques de Moura Belo and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the issue of determinism in Avicenna and Averroes through an analysis of their views on chance, matter and divine providence. It sets the debate against the philosophical/historical background of Aristotelianism, Neoplatonism and Islamic theology.
Book Synopsis Avicenna's Theory of Science by : Riccardo Strobino
Download or read book Avicenna's Theory of Science written by Riccardo Strobino and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Avicenna written by Soheil M. Afnan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-14 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Aspects of Avicenna by : Robert Wisnovsky
Download or read book Aspects of Avicenna written by Robert Wisnovsky and published by Princeton, NJ : Markus Wiener Pub.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Interpreting Avicenna: Science and Philosophy in Medieval Islam by : Jon McGinnis
Download or read book Interpreting Avicenna: Science and Philosophy in Medieval Islam written by Jon McGinnis and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004-09-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Avicenna written by Bridget Lim and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known as the “prince of physicians,” Avicenna made enormous contributions to the fields of medicine, natural history, metaphysics, and religion. His use of Aristotelian logic and his work on the concept of “being” opened the door for a rationalist study of religion, influencing the later Christian philosophers Aquinas, Descartes, and Kant. Avicenna’s monumental Canon of Medicine is regarded as possibly the greatest medical work ever. Available in a Latin translation in Europe one hundred years after his death, it continued to be used there for the next six centuries.
