Author
Wisnovsky, Robert, author.
Publication Date
2018
Publication Place
Ithaca, NY -
Cornell University Press
Subject
Metaphysics, Avicenna, 980-1037
Type
Book
Language
ara,eng
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Pages Count
305
Library
Wesleyan University Library
Library Asset ID
ISBN : 1-5017-1152-0, OCLC : (OCoLC)1080550972, OCLC : (OCoLC)1038488144, ISBN : 0-8014-4178-1
Record ID
alma9932208534503768
Library Location
Available at WU - Olin Library Stacks (B751.Z7 W57 2003)
Date
2018
Notes
In English with an appendix in Arabic., Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-291) and indexes.
Sample Text
• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• A Note on Transliteration and Citation
• Introduction
• Part I: Avicenna and the Ammonian Synthesis
• 1. Aristotle: Perfection in the Definitions of the Soul and of Change
• 2. Alexander and Themistius: Attempts at Reconciliation
• 3. Proclus, Ammonius and Asclepius: The Neoplatonic Turn to Causation
• 4. Proclus, Ammonius and Philoponus: Neoplatonic Perfection and Aristotelian Soul
• 5. Greek into Arabic: The Greco-Arabic Translations and the Early Arabic Philosophers
• 6. Avicenna on Perfection and the Soul: The Issue of Separability
• Part II: The Beginnings of the Avicennian Synthesis
• 7. Essence and Existence (A): Materials from the Kalām and al-Fārābī
• 8. Essence and Existence (B): Shay'iyya or Sababiyya?
• 9. Essence and Existence (C): The Question of Evolution
• 10. Causal Self-Sufficiency vs. Causal Productivity
• 11. Necessity and Possibility (A): Materials from the Arabic Aristotle
• 12. Necessity and Possibility (B): Materials from al-Fārābī
• 13. Necessity and Possibility (C): Materials from the Kalām
• 14. Necessity and Possibility (D): The Question of Evolution
• Conclusion
• Appendix I: Tables of Greco-Arabic Translation
• Appendix II: Transcriptions of Lemmata from MS Uppsala Or. 364
• Bibliography
• Index of Lemmata
• General Index
Baskı
1st ed.
Tür
Electronic books.
