The Eudaimonist Ethics of Al-Fārābī And Avicenna

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-50647-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 116, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

Reihe: Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies

Now available in Open Access thanks to the support of the University of Helsinki.

Al-Farabi and Avicenna are the two most influential authors of the classical period of Arabic philosophy, yet their ethical thought has been largely overlooked by scholars. In this book, Janne Mattila provides the first comprehensive account of the ethics of these important philosophers. The book argues that even if neither of them wrote a major ethical work, their ethical writings form a coherent ethical system, especially when understood in the context of philosophical psychology, cosmology, and metaphysics. The resulting ethical theory is, moreover, not derivative of their classical predecessors in any simple way. The book will appeal to those with interest in Arabic/Islamic philosophy, Islamic intellectual history, classical philosophy, and the history of moral philosophy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mattila, Janne

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Nicht-Westliche Philosophie Islamische & Arabische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Philosophie & Wissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 Aim of the Book

2 Classical Sources of Arabic Ethics

3 Aristotle

4 Plato and Galen

5 Neoplatonism

6 Conception of Ethics

Part 1 Happiness

1 Final End

1 Al-Farabi

2 Avicenna

2 Function Argument

1 Al-Farabi

2 Avicenna

3 Pleasure

1 Al-Farabi

2 Avicenna

4 Theoretical Perfection

1 Al-Farabi

2 Avicenna

5 Ascent

1 Al-Farabi

2 Avicenna

6 Afterlife

1 Al-Farabi

2 Avicenna

Part 2 Virtue

7 Virtue and Happiness

1 Al-Farabi

2 Avicenna

8 Theory of Virtue

1 Al-Farabi

2 Avicenna

9 Virtue and Rationality

1 Al-Farabi

2 Avicenna

10 Moral Progression

1 Al-Farabi

2 Avicenna

Conclusions

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Janne Mattila, Ph.D. (2011, University of Helsinki), is a researcher of the history of Arabic philosophy. He is currently working in the ERC project "The Origin and Early Development of Philosophy in Tenth-Century al-Andalus" at the Université catholique de Louvain.