Hasse / Bertolacci The Arabic, Hebrew and Latin Reception of Avicenna's Metaphysics

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-3-11-021576-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 7, 406 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 240 mm

Reihe: Scientia Graeco-Arabica

Avicenna’s Metaphysics (in Arabic: Ilâhiyyât) is the most important and influential metaphysical treatise of classical and medieval times after Aristotle. This volume presents studies on its direct and indirect influence in Arabic, Hebrew, and Latin culture from the time of its composition in the early eleventh century until the sixteenth 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. It is shown how authors such as Averroes, Abraham ibn Daud, Albertus Magnus, Thomas Aquinas and John Duns Scotus react to Avicenna’s metaphysical theories. The studies also address the philological and historical circumstances of the textual tradition in three different medieval cultures. The studies are written by a distinguished international team of contributors, who convened in 2008 to discuss their research in the Villa Vigoni, Italy.

Zielgruppe

Academics, Libraries, Institutes

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hasse, Dag Nikolaus

Bertolacci, Amos

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien: Philosophie, Aufklärung, Wissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Mittelalterliche & Scholastische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Nicht-Westliche Philosophie Islamische & Arabische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Philosophie & Wissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Preface;6
2;Introduction;10
3;Al-Lawkaril’s Reception of Ibn Sina’s Ilahiyyat;16
4;Essence and Existence in the Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Islamic East (Mašrig): A Sketch;36
5;Farabi in the Reception of Avicenna’s Metaphysics: Averroes against Avicenna on Being and Unity;60
6;Avicenna and his Commentators on Human and Divine Self-Intellection;106
7;Essence and Existence. Thirteenth-Century Perspectives in Arabic-Islamic Philosophy and Theology;132
8;Avicenna’s Metaphysics in the Medieval Hebrew Philosophical Tradition;162
9;‘Happy is he whose children are boys’: Abraham Ibn Daud and Avicenna on Evil;168
10;Possible Hebrew Quotations of the Metaphysical Section of Avicenna’s Oriental Philosophy and Their Historical Meaning;186
11;On the Latin Reception of Avicenna’s Metaphysics before Albertus Magnus : An Attempt at Periodization;206
12;Avicenna’s ‘Giver of Forms’ in Latin Philosophy, Especially in the Works of Albertus Magnus;234
13;Avicenna and Aquinas on Form and Generation;260
14;Immateriality and Separation in Avicenna and Thomas Aquinas;284
15;Two Senses of ‘Common’. Avicenna’s Doctrine of Essence and Aquinas’s View on Individuation;318
16;On the Latin Reception of Avicenna’s Theory of Individuation;348
17;Scotus and Avicenna on What it is to Be a Thing;374
18;Index of Avicenna’s Works with Passages Cited;398
19;Index of Names;404

Über Autor(innen)

Dag Nikolaus Hasse, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany; Amos Bertolacci, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Italy.