Orientations of Avicenna's Philosophy

Essays on his Life, Method, Heritage

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

Av Dimitri Gutas

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The volume brings together seventeen studies on Avicenna by Dimitri Gutas, written over the past twenty-five years. They aim to establish Avicenna’s historical and philosophical context as a means to determining his philosophical project and the orientations of his thought. They deal with his life and works, his method, his epistemology, and his later reception in the Islamic world, ending with a programmatic essay on the state of the field of Avicennan studies and future agenda. Occasioned by issues raised in Gutas’s monograph on Avicenna and the Aristotelian Tradition (whose second edition has just appeared), they form a substantive complement to it. For this reprint, a number of the essays have been reset and accordingly revised and updated. Provided with exhaustive indexes of names, places, subjects, and technical terms, the volume constitutes a new and major research tool for the study of Avicenna and his heritage. (CS1050).

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Utgivningsdatum2020-06-30
Mått150 x 224 x 26 mm
Vikt620 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieVariorum Collected Studies
Antal sidor384
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9780367600006

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Dimitri Gutas is Professor of Arabic and Graeco-Arabic at Yale University, USA where he studies and teaches classical Arabic and the pre-modern intellectual tradition in Islamic civilization. In addition to his lexicographical interests in Graeco-Arabic studies, he has devoted a large part of his scholarly career to the edition and study of Greek philosophical texts translated into Arabic and their influence in the Islamic world. In this field he has published Greek Wisdom Literature in Arabic Translation. A Study of the Graeco-Arabic Gnomologia (New Haven 1975), Greek Philosophers in the Arabic Tradition (Aldershot, Hampshire 2000), and has been involved from the beginning as co-editor in Project Theophrastus. Within Arabic philosophy, he has concentrated in particular on its greatest exponent, Ibn Sina (known as Avicenna in the medieval Latin world), on whom he wrote the fundamental Avicenna and the Aristotelian Tradition and Introduction to Reading Avicenna's Philosophical Works.

Contents: Foreword. Life and Works: Avicenna: biography; Avicenna's Maa,Ahab, with an appendix on the question of his date of birth; Texts from Avicenna's library in a copy by E'Abd-ar-RazzAuq aa'GBP-a' iA!nAua,A (notes and texts from Cairo manuscripts, II); Avicenna's marginal glosses on De anima and the Greek commentatorial tradition; Avicenna's Eastern ('Oriental') philosophy: nature, contents, transmission. Method: The logic of theology (kalAum) in Avicenna; The empiricism of Avicenna; Medical theory and scientific method in the age of Avicenna. Epistemology: Avicenna: the metaphysics of the rational soul; Intuition and thinking: the evolving structure of Avicenna's epistemology; Imagination and transcendental knowledge in Avicenna; Intellect without limits: the absence of mysticism in Avicenna; Avicenna: mysticism and the question of his 'Oriental' philosophy. The Study of Avicenna and His Heritage: The heritage of Avicenna: the golden age of Arabic philosophy, 1000 - ca. 1350; Philosophy in the 12th century: one view from Baghdad, or the repudiation of al-GhazAulA'; Ibn a'--ufayl on Ibn SAnAu's Eastern philosophy; The study of Avicenna. Status quaestionis atque agenda. Indexes.