Title Alfarabi, Avicenna, and Averroes on intellect : their cosmologies, theories of the active intellect, and theories of human intellect / Herbert A. Davidson

Published New York : Oxford University Press, 1992

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Description 1 online resource (x, 363 pages) Contents 1. Introduction -- 2. Greek and Arabic Antecedents -- Stages of Human Intellect -- Kind of Entity That the Active Intellect Is -- Active Intellect as a Cause of Human Thought -- Active Intellect as a Cause of Existence -- Conjunction with the Active Intellect; Immortality -- 3. Alfarabi on Emanation, the Active Intellect, and Human Intellect -- Al-Madina al-Fadila and al-Siyasa al-Madaniyya -- Alfarabi's Philosophy of Aristotle -- Risala fi al-Aql -- Alfarabi's Commentary on the Nicomachean Ethics -- 4. Avicenna on Emanation, the Active Intellect, and Human Intellect -- Emanation of the Universe; the Active Intellect as a Cause of the Existence of the Sublunar World -- Stages of Human Intellect; the Active Intellect as the Cause of Human Thought -- Imagination, Cogitation, Insight -- Conjunction and Immortality -- Prophecy -- 5. Reverberations of the Theories of Alfarabi and Avicenna -- Avicenna's Islamic Successors -- Reverberations in Medieval Jewish Philosophy -- Reverberations in Scholastic Philosophy -- 6. Averroes on Emanation and on the Active Intellect as a Cause of Existence -- General Considerations -- Emanation of the Universe -- Active Intellect as a Cause of Existence: Epitomes of the Parva naturalia and the Metaphysics -- Active Intellect as a Cause of Existence: The Long Commentary on the Metaphysics and Tahafut al-Tahafut (Destructio destructionum) -- 7. Averroes on the Material Intellect -- Introduction -- Epitome of the De anima and the Epistle on the Possibility of Conjunction -- Minor Composition on Conjunction and the Middle Commentary on the De anima -- Averroes' Long Commentary on the De anima and his Commentary on Alexander's De intellectu 5. Reverberations of the Theories of Alfarabi and Avicenna -- Avicenna's Islamic Successors -- Reverberations in Medieval Jewish Philosophy -- Reverberations in Scholastic Philosophy -- 6.Averroes on Emanation and on the Active Intellect as a Cause of Existence -- General Considerations -- Emanation of the Universe -- Active Intellect as a Cause of Existence: Epitomes of the Parva naturalia and the Metaphysics -- Active Intellect as a Cause of Existence: The Commentary on De generatione animalium -- Active Intellect as a Cause of Existence: The Long Commentary on the Metaphysics and Tahafut al-Tahafut (Destrctio destructionum) -- 7.Averroes on the Material Intellect -- Introduction -- Epitome of the De anima and the Epistle on the Possibility of Conjunction -- Minor Composition on Conjunction and the Middle Commentary on the De anima -- Averroes' Long Commentary on the De anima and his Commentary on Alexander's De intellectu -- Averroes' Theories of Material Intellect as Reflected in Subsequent Jewish and Christian Thought 8. Averroes on the Active Intellect as the Cause of Human Thought -- Passage of the Human Intellect to Actuality -- Possibility of Conjunction with the Active Intellect; Immortality -- Prophecy -- Averroes' Shifting Picture of the Universe and of Man's Place in It Summary The distinction between the potential intellect and the active intellect was first drawn by Aristotle. Medieval Islamic, Jewish, Christian philosophers, and European philosophers in the sixteenth century considered it a possible key to deciphering the nature of man and the universe. In this book, Herbert Davidson examines the treatment of intellect in Alfarabi (d. 950), Avicenna (980-1037) and Averroes (1126-1198), with particular attention to the way in which they addressed the tangle of issues that grew up around the active intellect Analysis Humans Intelligence Philosophy Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Fārābī Avicenna, 980-1037. Averroës, 1126-1198 SUBJECT Averroës, 1126-1198 fast Avicenna, 980-1037 fast Fārābī fast Subject Islamic philosophy -- Greek influences. Intellect. Philosophy of mind. Islamic cosmology. Philosophy, Arab -- Greek influences Intellect -- History Philosophy of mind -- History Islamic cosmology -- History Intelligence SCIENCE -- Cognitive Science. PSYCHOLOGY -- Cognitive Psychology. Intellect Islamic cosmology Islamic philosophy -- Greek influences Philosophy of mind Filosofie van de geest. Islamitische filosofie. Filosofia medieval. Cosmologia. Filosofia (historia) Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 91038856 ISBN 142940115X 9781429401159 9780195074239 0195074238 1280526114 9781280526114 9786610526116 6610526117

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