Reason Unbound

On Spiritual Practice in Islamic Peripatetic Philosophy

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

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A critique of the modern receptions of Islamic Peripatetic philosophy and a validation of the importance of Islamic philosophy for modern philosophyThis intriguing work offers a new perspective on Islamic Peripatetic philosophy, critiquing modern receptions of such thought and highlighting the contribution it can make to contemporary Western philosophy. Mohammad Azadpur focuses on the thought of Alfarabi and Avicenna, who, like ancient Greek philosophers and some of their successors, viewed philosophy as a series of spiritual exercises. However, Muslim Peripatetics differed from their Greek counterparts in assigning importance to prophecy. The Islamic philosophical account of the cultivation of the soul to the point of prophecy unfolds new vistas of intellectual and imaginative experience and accords the philosopher an exceptional dignity and freedom. With reference to both Islamic and Western philosophers, Azadpur discusses how Islamic Peripatetic thought can provide an antidote to some of modernity's philosophical problems. A discussion of the development of later Islamic Peripatetic thought is also included.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2012-07-02
Mått152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt272 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieSUNY series in Western Esoteric Traditions
Antal sidor187
FörlagState University of New York Press
ISBN9781438437620

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Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion
Islam inom Filosofi och religion
Filosofiska discipliner inom Filosofi och religion
Filosofi inom Filosofi och religion

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Islamic Philosophy and the Crisis of Modern Rationalism1. Beyond Orientalism and Academic Rationalism: A Critique of the Standard Readings of Islamic Philosophy1.1. Philosophy as Practice of Spiritual Exercises1.2. Standard Readings of Islamic Philosophy2. To the Things Themselves: Corbin and Heidegger on Phenomenological Access2.1. Phenomenology According to Henry Corbin2.2. Heidegger’s Phenomenology2.3. Two Contemporary Approaches to Heidegger’s Phenomenology2.4. Back to Corbin3. From the Things Themselves to Prophecy: Philosophical Cultivation in Islamic Peripateticism3.1. The Ethical Foundations of Islamic Philosophy3.2. Alfarabi’s Appropriation of Islamic Ethics3.3. Alfarabi’s Philosophical Appropriation of Islamic Prophetology3.4. The Reception of the Notion of Active Intellect in the Islamic Philosophical Tradition3.5. Alfarabi on Religion and Politics3.6. Avicenna on Philosophical Felicity3.7. Avicenna on Intellectual Prophecy4. Disciplining the Imagination: Intellect, Imagination, and Prophecy4.1. Prophetic Imagination4.2. The Beautiful and the Sublime4.3. Before and After Kant4.4. Avicenna on the Poetic Cultivation of Imagination5. The Theologian’s Dream: Imagination and Intellectual Heresy5.1. Ghazali on Dreams5.2. Ghazali and Avicenna on the Interpretation of Prophetic Symbols5.3. Ghazali’s Charge of Heresy Against Islamic Peripatetics and Averroes’ Reply6. On Human Finitude, Conscience, and Exemplarity: A Comparison between Islamic Philosophy and Phenomenology6.1. Being-Toward-Beyond-Death: On the Immortality of the Soul in Islamic Peripateticism6.2. Conscience and the Active Intellect6.3. Paradigms of Emulation: Divine Exemplars and Existential HeroesConclusion: Importance of Islamic Peripateticism for Modern Philosophy in the West and Its Impact on Later Islamic Philosophy1. Islamic Peripateticism and the Predicament of Modern Western Philosophy2. Peripateticism in Later Islamic PhilosophyNotesBibliographyIndex

"Reason Unbound is a clearly articulated work which will be of interest to students and scholars of the history of Islamic philosophy and to those interested in exploring how the Islamic and European philosophical traditions may benefit from each other." — Journal of Shi'a Islamic Studies"Reason Unbound provides an excellent synthesis of Islamic philosophy and the continental tradition of European philosophy. The author presents a persuasive argument and backs it up well with evidence from both Islamic and Western philosophy." — Oliver Leaman, author of Islamic Philosophy: An Introduction