Avicenna On The Necessity Of The Actual
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Avicenna On The Necessity Of The Actual
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Author : Celia Kathryn Hatherly
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2022-09-28
Avicenna On The Necessity Of The Actual written by Celia Kathryn Hatherly and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-28 with Philosophy categories.
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.
Necessary Existence And The Doctrine Of Being In Avicenna S Metaphysics Of The Healing
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Author : Daniel D. De Haan
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2020-08-10
Necessary Existence And The Doctrine Of Being In Avicenna S Metaphysics Of The Healing written by Daniel D. De Haan and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-10 with History categories.
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.
Interpreting Avicenna
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Author : Peter Adamson
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2013-07-04
Interpreting Avicenna written by Peter Adamson and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-04 with Philosophy categories.
This volume examines many aspects of the philosophy of Avicenna, the greatest philosopher of the Islamic world.
Avicenna The Healing Logic Isagoge
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Author : Avicenna
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2021-04-19
Avicenna The Healing Logic Isagoge written by Avicenna and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-19 with Philosophy categories.
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.
Interpreting Avicenna
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Author : Avicenna Study Group. Conference
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2004
Interpreting Avicenna written by Avicenna Study Group. Conference and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Philosophy categories.
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.
Avicenna
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Author : L E Goodman
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-01-11
Avicenna written by L E Goodman and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-11 with History categories.
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.
Avicenna
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Author : Jon McGinnis
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2010-06-17
Avicenna written by Jon McGinnis and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-17 with Religion categories.
Ibn Sina (980-1037), known as Avicenna in Latin, played a considerable role in the development of both Eastern and Western philosophy and science. His contributions to the fields of logic, natural science, psychology, metaphysics, theology, and even medicine were vast. His work was to have a significant impact on Thomas Aquinas, among others, who explicitly and frequently drew upon the ideas of his Muslim predecessor. Avicenna also affected the thinking of the great Islamic theologian al-Ghazali, who asserted that if one could show the incoherence of Avicenna's thought, then one would have demonstrated the incoherence of philosophy in general. But Avicenna's influence is not confined to the medieval period. His logic, natural philosophy, and metaphysics are still taught in the Islamic world as living philosophy, and many contemporary Catholic and evangelical Christian philosophers continue to encounter his ideas through Aquinas's work. Using a small handful of novel insights, Avicenna not only was able to address a host of issues that had troubled earlier philosophers in both the ancient Hellenistic and medieval Islamic worlds, but also fundamentally changed the direction of philosophy, in the Islamic East as well as in Jewish and Christian milieus. Despite Avicenna's important place in the history of ideas, there has been no single volume that both recognizes the complete range of his intellectual activity and provides a rigorous analysis of his philosophical thinking. This book fills that need. In Avicenna Jon McGinnis provides a general introduction to the thinker's intellectual system and offers a careful philosophical analysis of major aspects of his work in clear prose that will be accessible to students as well as to specialists in Islamic studies, philosophy, and the history of science.
Avicenna On The Four Elements
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Author : Laleh Bakhtiar
language : en
Publisher: Kazi Publications
Release Date : 2012-07
Avicenna On The Four Elements written by Laleh Bakhtiar and has been published by Kazi Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07 with Islamic philosophy categories.
Avicenna in his Law of Natural Healing (Canon of Medicine), Lecture 2, describes the importance of the four elements as simple substances that are the primary constituents of the human body. It also contains O. Cameron Gruner's extensive endnotes.
Avicenna S Metaphysics In Context
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Author : Robert Wisnovsky
language : ar
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2003
Avicenna S Metaphysics In Context written by Robert Wisnovsky and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Philosophy categories.
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.
Avicenna On The Causes Of Illness
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Author : Laleh Bakhtiar
language : en
Publisher: Kazi Publications
Release Date : 2012-07
Avicenna On The Causes Of Illness written by Laleh Bakhtiar and has been published by Kazi Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07 with categories.
Avicenna in his Law of Natural Healing (Canon of Medicine), Lecture 8, describes the causes of illness including unavoidable causes such as environmental changes, natural mutations, incidental mutations, sleep and wakefulness and the influence of psychological or emotional factors as well as many other considerations. It also contains O. Cameron Gruner's extensive endnotes.