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Author | : Celia Kathryn Hatherly |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2022-09-28 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 166690449X |
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According to Avicenna, whatever exists, while it exists, exists of necessity. Not all beings, however, exist with the same kind of necessity. Instead, they exist either necessarily per se or necessarily per aliud. Avicenna on the Necessity of the Actual: His Interpretation of Four Aristotelian Arguments explains how Avicenna uses these modal claims to show that God is the efficient as well as the final cause of an eternally existing cosmos. In particular, Celia Kathryn Hatherly shows how Avicenna uses four Aristotelian arguments to prove this very un-Aristotelian conclusion. These arguments include Aristotle's argument for the finitude of efficient causes in Metaphysics 2; his proof for the prime mover in the Physics and Metaphysics 12; his argument against the Megarians in Metaphysics 9; and his argument for the mutual entailment between the necessary and the eternal in De Caelo 1.12. Moreover, Hatherly contends, when Avicenna's versions of these arguments are correctly interpreted using his distinctive understanding of necessity and possibility, the objections raised against them by his contemporaries and modern scholars fail.
Author | : Peter Adamson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2013-07-04 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0521190738 |
Download Interpreting Avicenna Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume examines many aspects of the philosophy of Avicenna, the greatest philosopher of the Islamic world.
Author | : Daniel D. De Haan |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 2020-08-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004434526 |
Download Necessary Existence and the Doctrine of Being in Avicenna’s Metaphysics of the Healing Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In Necessary Existence and the Doctrine of Being in Avicenna’s Metaphysics of the Healing Daniel De Haan examines the primary notions being, thing, one, and necessary and their roles in the central argument of Avicenna’s metaphysical masterpiece.
Author | : Avicenna |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 598 |
Release | : 2021-04-19 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 3110726564 |
Download Avicenna, ›The Healing, Logic: Isagoge‹ Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book offers a new edition, with English translation and commentary, of the Kitāb al-Madḫal, which opens Avicenna’s (d. 1037) most comprehensive summa of Peripatetic philosophy, namely the Kitāb al-Šifāʾ. For the first time, the text is established together with a stemma codicum showing the genealogical relations among 34 manuscripts, the twelfth-century Latin translation, and the literal quotations by Avicenna’s first and second-generation students. In this book, Avicenna’s reappraisal of Porphyry’s Isagoge is examined from both a historical and a philosophical point of view. The key-features of Avicenna’s theory of predicables are analyzed in the General Introduction and in the Commentary both in their own right and against the background of the Greek and Arabic exegetical tradition. Readers shall find in this book the first systematic study of the Madḫal which, in addition to being the only logical work of the Šifāʾ ever transmitted in its entirety both in Arabic and in Latin, is crucial for understanding Avicenna’s conception of universal predicables at the crossroads between logic and metaphysics.
Author | : Mones Abu-Asab |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2013-07-04 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 1620551705 |
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The first contemporary translation of the 1,000-year-old text at the foundation of modern medicine and biology • Presents the actual words of Avicenna translated directly from the original Arabic, removing the inaccuracies and errors of most translators • Explains current medical interpretations and ways to apply Avicenna’s concepts today, particularly for individualized medicine • Reveals how Avicenna’s understanding of the “humors” corresponds directly with the biomedical classes known today as proteins, lipids, and organic acids A millennium after his life, Avicenna remains one of the most highly regarded physicians of all time. His Canon of Medicine, also known as the Qanun, is one of the most famous and influential books in the history of medicine, forming the basis for our modern understanding of human health and disease. It focused not simply on the treatment of symptoms, but on finding the cause of illness through humoral diagnosis—a method still used in traditional Unani and Ayurvedic medicines in India. Originally written in Arabic, Avicenna’s Canon was long ago translated into Latin, Persian, and Urdu, yet many of the inaccuracies from those first translations linger in current English translations. Translated directly from the original Arabic, this volume includes detailed commentary to explain current biomedical interpretations of Avicenna’s theories and ways to apply his treatments today, particularly for individualized medicine. It shows how Avicenna’s understanding of the humors corresponds directly with the biomedical definition of proteins, lipids, and organic acids: the nutrient building blocks of our blood and body. With this new translation of the first volume of his monumental work, Avicenna’s Canon becomes just as relevant today as it was 1,000 years ago.
Author | : Laleh Bakhtiar |
Publisher | : Kazi Publications |
Total Pages | : 98 |
Release | : 2012-07-01 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9781567447996 |
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After distinguishing between a sign and a symptom, Avicenna in his Law of Natural Healing (Canon of Medicine), Lecture 7, describes the various states of the human body and types of illnesses and injuries. It also contains O. Cameron Gruner's extensive endnotes.
Author | : Max Cresswell |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 365 |
Release | : 2016-09-15 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 1316760456 |
Download Logical Modalities from Aristotle to Carnap Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Interest in the metaphysics and logic of possible worlds goes back at least as far as Aristotle, but few books address the history of these important concepts. This volume offers new essays on the theories about the logical modalities (necessity and possibility) held by leading philosophers from Aristotle in ancient Greece to Rudolf Carnap in the twentieth century. The story begins with an illuminating discussion of Aristotle's views on the connection between logic and metaphysics, continues through the Stoic and mediaeval (including Arabic) traditions, and then moves to the early modern period with particular attention to Locke and Leibniz. The views of Kant, Peirce, C. I. Lewis and Carnap complete the volume. Many of the essays illuminate the connection between the historical figures studied, and recent or current work in the philosophy of modality. The result is a rich and wide-ranging picture of the history of the logical modalities.
Author | : L E Goodman |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2013-01-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134977808 |
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the philosophers in the West, none, perhaps, is better known by name and less familiar in actual content of his ideas than the medieval Muslim philosopher, physician, minister and naturalist Abu Ali Ibn Sina, known since the days of the scholastics as Avicenna. In this book the author, himself a philosopher, and long known for his studies of Arabic thought, presents a factual account of Avicenna's philosophy. Setting the thinker in the context of his often turbulent times and tracing the roots and influences of Avicenna's ideas, this book offers a factual philosophical portrait. It details Avicenna's account of being as a synthesis between the seemingly irreconcilable extremes of Aristotelian eternalism and the creationism of monotheistic scripture. It examines Avicenna's distinctive theory of knowledge, his ideas about immortality and individuality, including the famous "floating man argument", his contributions to logic, and his probing thoughts on rhetoric and poetics.
Author | : Laleh Bakhtiar |
Publisher | : Kazi Publications |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012-07 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781567447873 |
Download Avicenna on the Causes of Illness Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Avicenna in his Law of Natural Healing (Canon of Medicine), Lecture 8, describes the causes of illness including unavoidable causes such as environmental changes, natural mutations, incidental mutations, sleep and wakefulness and the influence of psychological or emotional factors as well as many other considerations. It also contains O. Cameron Gruner's extensive endnotes.
Author | : Robert Wisnovsky |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2018-05-31 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1501711520 |
Download Avicenna's Metaphysics in Context Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The eleventh-century philosopher and physician Abu Ali ibn Sina (d. A.D. 1037) was known in the West by his Latinized name Avicenna. An analysis of the sources and evolution of Avicenna's metaphysics, this book focuses on the answers he and his predecessors gave to two fundamental pairs of questions: what is the soul and how does it cause the body; and what is God and how does He cause the world? To respond to these challenges, Avicenna invented new concepts and distinctions and reinterpreted old ones. The author concludes that Avicenna's innovations are a turning point in the history of metaphysics. Avicenna's metaphysics is the culmination of a period of synthesis during which philosophers fused together a Neoplatonic project (reconciling Plato with Aristotle) with a Peripatetic project (reconciling Aristotle with himself). Avicenna also stands at the beginning of a period during which philosophers sought to integrate the Arabic version of the earlier synthesis with Islamic doctrinal theology (kalam). Avicenna's metaphysics significantly influenced European scholastic thought, but it had an even more profound impact on Islamic intellectual history—the philosophical problems and opportunities associated with the Avicennian synthesis continued to be debated up to the end of the nineteenth century.