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Alfarabi, Avicenna, and Averroes on intellect : their cosmologies, theories of the active intellect, and theories of human intellect
Davidson, Herbert A <Herbert Alan ; 1932-2021>
Abstract
The distinction between the potential intellect and the active intellect was first drawn by Aristotle. Medieval Islamic, Jewish, Christian philosophers, and European philosophers in the sixteenth century considered it a possible key to deciphering the nature of man and the universe. In this book, Herbert Davidson examines the treatment of intellect in Alfarabi (d.
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950), Avicenna (980-1037) and Averroes (1126-1198), with particular attention to the way in which they addressed the tangle of issues that grew up around the active intellect
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| Descrizione | *Alfarabi, Avicenna, and Averroes on intellect : their cosmologies, theories of the active intellect, and theories of human intellect / Herbert A. Davidson New York : Oxford University Press, 1992 1 online resource (x, 363 pages) |
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| ISBN | 9786610526116 | |
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| Anno pubblicazione | 1992 | |
| Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction -- 2. Greek and Arabic Antecedents --. Stages of Human Intellect --. Kind of Entity That the Active Intellect Is --. Active Intellect as a Cause of Human Thought --. Active Intellect as a Cause of Existence --. Conjunction with the Active Intellect; Immortality --. 3. Alfarabi on Emanation, the Active Intellect, and Human Intellect --. Al-Madina al-Fadila and al-Siyasa al-Madaniyya --. Alfarabi's Philosophy of Aristotle --. Risala fi al-Aql --. Alfarabi's Commentary on the Nicomachean Ethics --. 4. Avicenna on Emanation, the Active Intellect, and Human Intellect --. Emanation of the Universe; the Active Intellect as a Cause of the Existence of the Sublunar World --. Stages of Human Intellect; the Active Intellect as the Cause of Human Thought --. Imagination, Cogitation, Insight --. Conjunction and Immortality --. Prophecy --. 5. Reverberations of the Theories of Alfarabi and Avicenna --. Avicenna's Islamic Successors --. Reverberations in Medieval Jewish Philosophy --. Reverberations in Scholastic Philosophy --. 6. Averroes on Emanation and on the Active Intellect as a Cause of Existence --. General Considerations --. Emanation of the Universe --. Active Intellect as a Cause of Existence: Epitomes of the Parva naturalia and the Metaphysics --. Active Intellect as a Cause of Existence: The Long Commentary on the Metaphysics and Tahafut al-Tahafut (Destructio destructionum) --. 7. Averroes on the Material Intellect --. Introduction --. Epitome of the De anima and the Epistle on the Possibility of Conjunction --. Minor Composition on Conjunction and the Middle Commentary on the De anima --. Averroes' Long Commentary on the De anima and his Commentary on Alexander's De intellectu. 5. Reverberations of the Theories of Alfarabi and Avicenna -- Avicenna's Islamic Successors -- Reverberations in Medieval Jewish Philosophy -- Reverberations in Scholastic Philosophy -- 6.Averroes on Emanation and on the Active Intellect as a Cause of Existence -- General Considerations -- Emanation of the Universe -- Active Intellect as a Cause of Existence: Epitomes of the Parva naturalia and the Metaphysics -- Active Intellect as a Cause of Existence: The Commentary on De generatione animalium -- Active Intellect as a Cause of Existence: The Long Commentary on the Metaphysics and Tahafut al-Tahafut (Destrctio destructionum) -- 7.Averroes on the Material Intellect -- Introduction -- Epitome of the De anima and the Epistle on the Possibility of Conjunction -- Minor Composition on Conjunction and the Middle Commentary on the De anima -- Averroes' Long Commentary on the De anima and his Commentary on Alexander's De intellectu -- Averroes' Theories of Material Intellect as Reflected in Subsequent Jewish and Christian Thought. 8. Averroes on the Active Intellect as the Cause of Human Thought --. Passage of the Human Intellect to Actuality --. Possibility of Conjunction with the Active Intellect; Immortality --. Prophecy --. Averroes' Shifting Picture of the Universe and of Man's Place in It |