Orientations of Avicenna's philosophy : essays on his life, method, heritage /: essays on his life, method, heritage. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Uniform Title: Works.
• Further Information: Note: Dimitri Gutas.
• Authors: Gutas, Dimitri
• Contents: 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 SA"nAu's Eastern philosophy; The study of Avicenna. Status quaestionis atque agenda. Indexes.
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 181.5
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000246179; 9781000246155; 9781000246162; 9781003110330
• Related ISBNs: 9780367600006
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