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Title The Arabic, Hebrew and Latin reception of Avicenna's Metaphysics / edited by Dag Nikolaus and Amos Bertolacci
Published Berlin : De Gruyter, 2011
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Description 1 online resource (406 pages)
Series Scientia Graeco-Arabica, 2365-8703 ; v. 7
Scientia Graeco-Arabica ; v. 7. 2365-8703
Contents Preface; Introduction; Al-Lawkaril's Reception of Ibn Sina's Ilahiyyat; Essence and Existence in the Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Islamic East (Mašrig): A Sketch; Farabi in the Reception of Avicenna's Metaphysics: Averroes against Avicenna on Being and Unity; Avicenna and his Commentators on Human and Divine Self-Intellection; Essence and Existence. Thirteenth-Century Perspectives in Arabic-Islamic Philosophy and Theology; Avicenna's Metaphysics in the Medieval Hebrew Philosophical Tradition; 'Happy is he whose children are boys': Abraham Ibn Daud and Avicenna on Evil
Possible Hebrew Quotations of the Metaphysical Section of Avicenna's Oriental Philosophy and Their Historical MeaningOn the Latin Reception of Avicenna's Metaphysics before Albertus Magnus : An Attempt at Periodization; Avicenna's 'Giver of Forms' in Latin Philosophy, Especially in the Works of Albertus Magnus; Avicenna and Aquinas on Form and Generation; Immateriality and Separation in Avicenna and Thomas Aquinas; Two Senses of 'Common'. Avicenna's Doctrine of Essence and Aquinas's View on Individuation; On the Latin Reception of Avicenna's Theory of Individuation
Scotus and Avicenna on What it is to Be a ThingIndex of Avicenna's Works with Passages Cited; Index of Names
Summary Avicenna's Metaphysics (in Arabic Ilâhiyyât) is one of the most important metaphysical treatises after Aristotle. This volume presents studies on its direct and indirect influenceon Arabic, Hebrew, and Latin culture from the early 11th through the 16th century. Among the philosophical topics which receive particular attention are the distinction between essence and existence, the theory of universals, the concept of God as the necessary being, and the theory of emanation. The studies also address the philological and historical circumstances of the textual tradition in three medieval cultures
Analysis Avicenna
Literary Reception
Metaphysics
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes English
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Subject Avicenna, 980-1037. Ilāhīyāt.
SUBJECT Ilāhīyāt (Avicenna) fast
Subject Islamic philosophy.
Jewish philosophy.
Metaphysics.
Philosophy, Medieval.
First philosophy.
metaphysics.
PHILOSOPHY -- Metaphysics.
First philosophy
Islamic philosophy
Jewish philosophy
Metaphysics
Philosophy, Medieval
Rezeption
Arabisch
Latein
Metaphysik
Hebräisch
Form Electronic book
Author Hasse, Dag Nikolaus, editor.
Bertolacci, Amos, editor.
LC no. 2011007822
ISBN 9783110215762
3110215764
1306968259
9781306968256
3110215756
9783110215755