Ibn Sina’s Remarks and Admonitions: Physics and Metaphysics

An Analysis and Annotated Translation
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-231-53742-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Grounded in an exploration of logic 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Inati, Shams

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Mittelalterliche & Scholastische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Philosophie & Wissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Analysis of the Text
Part Two: Physics
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
Part Three: Metaphysics
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

Über Autor(innen)

Shams C. Inati is an internationally renowned intellectual and scholar on Islamic philosophy, a poet, and an educator. She is professor of Islamic philosophy and theology at Villanova University. Dr. Inati is the author of numerous articles and a number of books, including The Problem of Evil: Ibn Sina's Theodicy; Ibn Sina and Mysticism: Remarks and Admonitions; and Remarks and Admonitions: Logic.