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1 online resource (227 p.) |
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Investigating Medieval Philosophy Ser |
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Investigating Medieval Philosophy Ser
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| Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Abbreviations and Translations -- Suhrawardī's Works -- Commentaries on Suhrawardī's Works -- Examples -- Introduction: The Cave Story: Suhrawardī's Illuminationist Project -- 1 Background and Purpose -- 2 The Cave Story Approach -- 3 Scope and Methodology -- 1 From Four Peripatetic-Style Works to Ḥikmat al-Ishrāq -- 1 The Contents of the Four Peripatetic-Style Works -- 1.1 Al-Talwīḥāt (The Intimations) and al-Lamaḥāt (The Glimpses) -- 1.2 Al-Muqāwamāt (The Oppositions) -- 1.3 Al-Muṭāraḥāt (The Debates) |
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2 The Introduction to Ḥikmat al-Ishrāq (The Philosophy of Illumination) -- 2.1 Deification (taʼalluh) and Investigation (baḥth) -- 2.2 The Ranking of Philosophers -- 2.3 The Contents of Ḥikmat al-Ishrāq -- 3 The Functions of the Four Peripatetic-Style Works -- 4 Summary of Chapter 1 -- 2 Presential Knowledge and the Nature of Illuminationist Philosophy -- 1 The Context of the Theory of Presential Knowledge -- 1.1 Two Problems with Avicenna's Formal Knowledge -- 1.2 Avicenna's Primitive Self-Awareness as the Starting Point -- 2 Establishing Illuminationist Presential Knowledge |
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2.1 Self-Apprehension -- 2.1.1 The Particularity Argument -- 2.1.2 The I-ness Argument -- 2.1.3 The Priority Argument -- 2.2 Apprehension of One's Body and Bodily Faculties -- 2.3 Apprehension of Pain Caused by Amputation -- 2.4 Visual Perception -- 3 Presence as the Nature of All Human Knowledge -- 3.1 Two Conditions for Knowledge -- 3.2 The Nature of Human Knowledge -- 3.3 What Is "Illumination" (ishrāq)? -- 4 Presential Knowledge as God's Knowledge -- 4.1 God's Presential Knowledge of Everything -- 4.2 God's Knowledge of Particulars -- 5 The Hierarchy of Knowledge in Illuminationism |
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5.1 Three Levels of Presential Knowledge, and Formal Knowledge -- 5.2 The Relation between Presential Knowledge and Formal Knowledge -- 5.3 The Highest Human Presential Knowledge -- 6 Summary of Chapter 2 -- 3 On Mental Considerations: Univocal Existence -- 1 The Context of the Discussion of Mental Considerations -- 1.1 Three Camps and Three Positions -- 1.2 Avicenna and Suhrawardī on the Quiddity-Existence Distinction -- 2 Suhrawardī's Existentialism and Systematically Ambiguous Existence (al-wujūd bi-l-tashkīk) |
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2.1 Univocal Existence (al-wujūd bi-l-tawāṭuʼ) and Systematically Ambiguous Existence -- 2.2 Four Arguments for Suhrawardī's Existentialism -- 3 The qusṭās (Test) and the Real-Mental Consideration Distinction -- 3.1 Analysis of the qusṭās -- 3.2 What Are Real and Mental Considerations? -- 4 Univocal Existence as a Mental Consideration -- 4.1 The Indifference Argument and the Infinite Regress of Existence -- 4.1.1 The Indifference Argument, Self-Predication and Non-Identity -- 4.1.2 Sāwī's Argument, and Two Peripatetic Defences -- 4.2 The Doubt Argument and the Infinite Regress of Existence |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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4.3 The Hybrid Infinite Regress of Existence and Relation |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789004527744 |
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9004527745 |
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