Avicenna's Metaphysics in Context

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Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501711520
Total Pages : 318 pages
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Download or read book Avicenna's Metaphysics in Context written by Robert Wisnovsky and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The 'Metaphysica' of Avicenna (ibn Sīnā)

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317366115
Total Pages : 364 pages
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Download or read book The 'Metaphysica' of Avicenna (ibn Sīnā) written by Parviz Morewedge and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-14 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Metaphysica of Avicenna (ibn Sīnā)

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ISBN 13 : 9781592670161
Total Pages : 336 pages
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Download or read book The Metaphysica of Avicenna (ibn Sīnā) written by Avicenna and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Metaphysica of Avicenna (ibn Sina)

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The Metaphysics of the Shifa

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Publisher : Mazda Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781568593128
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The 'Metaphysica' of Avicenna (ibn Sīnā)

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Metaphysics of Avicenna (Ibn Sina).

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ISBN 13 : 9780231035972
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الشفاء: الالهيات

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Publisher : FARMS
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 932 pages
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Download or read book الشفاء: الالهيات written by Avicenna and published by FARMS. This book was released on 2005 with total page 932 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within this emanative scheme we encounter some of the basic ideas of Avicenna's religious and political philosophy, including his discussion of the divine attributes, divine providence, the Hereafter, and the ideal, "virtuous" city with its philosopher-prophet as the recipient and conveyer of the revealed law, a human link between the celestial and the terrestrial worlds."--BOOK JACKET.

Ibn Sina's Remarks and Admonitions: Physics and Metaphysics

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Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231166168
Total Pages : 250 pages
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Download or read book Ibn Sina's Remarks and Admonitions: Physics and Metaphysics written by and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Al-Isharat wat-Tanbihat (Remarks and Admonitions) is one of the most mature and comprehensive philosophical works of Ibn Sina (Avicenna, 980–1037). Grounded in an exploration of logic (which Ibn Sina described as the gate to knowledge) and happiness (the ultimate human goal), the text illuminates the divine, the human being, and the nature of things through a wide-ranging discussion of topics. The sections of Physics and Metaphysics deal with the nature of bodies and souls as well as existence, creation, and knowledge. Especially important are Ibn Sina’s views of God’s knowledge of particulars, which generated much controversy in medieval Islamic and Christian philosophical and theological circles and provoked a strong rejection by eleventh-century philosopher al-Ghazali. This book provides the first annotated English translation of Physics and Metaphysics and edits the original Arabic text on which the translation is based where it is corrupt or incomprehensible. It begins with a detailed analysis of the text, followed by a translation of the three classes or groups of ideas in the Physics (On the Substance of Bodies; On the Directions and Their Primary and Secondary Bodies; and On the Terrestrial and Celestial Souls) and the four in the Metaphysics (On Existence and Its Causes; Creation Ex Nihilo and Immediate Creation; On Ends, on Their Principles, and on the Arrangement [of Existence]; and On Abstraction. The Metaphysics closes with a significant discussion of the concepts of providence, good, and evil, which Ibn Sina uses to introduce a theodicy. Researchers, faculty, and students in philosophy, theology, religion, and intellectual history will find in this work a useful and necessary source for understanding Ibn Sina’s philosophical thought and more generally the medieval Islamic and Christian study of nature, the world beyond, psychology, God, and the concept of evil.

The Life of Ibn Sina

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Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780873952262
Total Pages : 176 pages
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Download or read book The Life of Ibn Sina written by Avicenna and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1974-01-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Avicenna, ›The Healing, Logic: Isagoge‹

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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110726564
Total Pages : 598 pages
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Download or read book Avicenna, ›The Healing, Logic: Isagoge‹ written by Avicenna and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-04-19 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Remarks and Admonitions: Logic

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Publisher : Pims
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Total Pages : 188 pages
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Download or read book Remarks and Admonitions: Logic written by Avicenna and published by Pims. This book was released on 1984 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the main this consists of short chapters involving either the author's exposition of his views or his criticisms of other thinkers -- the former are called "remarks" and the latter are called, on the whole "admonitions". He introduces the whole work with this book on logic because to him logic is the key to knowledge, and knowledge is the key to happiness, the highest human goal.

Avicenna

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Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0195331478
Total Pages : 317 pages
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Download or read book Avicenna written by Jon McGinnis and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. 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.

A Compendium on the Soul

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Publisher : DigiCat
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Total Pages : 88 pages
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Download or read book A Compendium on the Soul written by Avicenna and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "A Compendium on the Soul" by Avicenna. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Avicenna

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134977808
Total Pages : 254 pages
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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.

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)

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Total Pages : 336 pages
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Avicenna

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131737858X
Total Pages : 374 pages
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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 374 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.