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Author Avicenna, 980-1037, author.

Title Ibn Sina's Remarks and admonitions : physics and metaphysics : an analysis and annotated translation / Shams C. Inati
Published New York : Columbia University Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 218 pages)
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Analysis of the Text -- Prologue -- First Class: On the Substance of Bodies -- Second Class: On the Directions and Their Primary and Secondary Bodies -- Third Class: On the Terrestrial and Celestial Souls -- Supplement to the [Third] Class: On Expositing the Movements Produced by the Soul -- Fourth Class: On existence and Its Causes -- Fifth Class: Creation ex Nihilo and Immediate Creation -- Sixth Class: On ends, on Their Principles, and on the Arrangement of existence -- Seventh Class: On Abstraction -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Analysis of the Text -- Prologue -- First Class: On the Substance of Bodies -- Second Class: On the Directions and Their Primary and Secondary Bodies -- Third Class: On the Terrestrial and Celestial Souls -- Supplement to the [Third] Class: On Expositing the Movements Produced by the Soul -- Fourth Class: On existence and Its Causes -- Fifth Class: Creation ex Nihilo and Immediate Creation -- Sixth Class: On ends, on Their Principles, and on the Arrangement of existence -- Seventh Class: On Abstraction -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary Al-Isharat wat-Tanbihat (Remarks and Admonitions) is one of the most mature and comprehensive philosophical works of Ibn Sina (Avicenna, 980?1037). Grounded in an exploration of logic (which Ibn Sina described as the gate to knowledge) and happiness (the ultimate human goal), the text illuminates the divine, the human being, and the nature of things through a wide-ranging discussion of topics. The sections of Physics and Metaphysics deal with the nature of bodies and souls as well as existence, creation, and knowledge. Especially important are Ibn Sina's views of God's knowledge of particulars
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Translated from the Arabic
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Subject Islamic philosophy -- Early works to 1800
Philosophy, Medieval.
Physics -- Early works to 1800
Metaphysics -- Early works to 1800
PHILOSOPHY -- Eastern.
RELIGION -- Islam -- History.
Islamic philosophy
Metaphysics
Philosophy, Medieval
Physics
Genre/Form Early works
Form Electronic book
Author Inati, Shams Constantine, translator, writer of added commentary
LC no. 2013041367
ISBN 9780231537421
0231537425
Other Titles Ishārāt wa-al-tanbīhāt. Part 2-3. English