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Of all the philosophers in the West, perhaps the best known by name and less familiar for the actual content of his ideas is the medieval Muslim philosopher, physician, princely minister and naturalist Abu Ali Ibn Sina, known since the days of the scholastics as Avicenna. In this lucidly written and witty book, L. E. Goodman a philosopher long known for his studies of Arabic thought presents a factual, pithy, and engaging 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, Goodman offers a factual and credible philosophical portrait of one of the world's greatest metaphysicians. The book 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 on immortality and individuality, including the famous Floating Man argument, his contributions to logic, and his probing thoughts on rhetoric and poetics.
Drawing from the very latest scholarship, Avicenna is more than a philosophical appreciation. L. E. Goodman considers the abiding value of Avicenna's contributions, assaying his thought against the responses of his contemporaries and successors but also against our current philosophical understanding. It will have wide appeal among all Arabists and Islamicists, and among students and scholars of philosophy. --This text refers to the Library Binding edition.
About the Author
L. E. Goodman is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hawaii, Manoa. --This text refers to the Library Binding edition.
Of all the philosophers in the West, perhaps the best known by name and less familiar for the actual content of his ideas is the medieval Muslim philosopher, physician, princely minister and naturalist Abu Ali Ibn Sina, known since the days of the scholastics as Avicenna. In this lucidly written and witty book, L. E. Goodman a philosopher long known for his studies of Arabic thought presents a factual, pithy, and engaging 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, Goodman offers a factual and credible philosophical portrait of one of the world's greatest metaphysicians. The book 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 on immortality and individuality, including the famous Floating Man argument, his contributions to logic, and his probing thoughts on rhetoric and poetics.
Drawing from the very latest scholarship, Avicenna is more than a philosophical appreciation. L. E. Goodman considers the abiding value of Avicenna's contributions, assaying his thought against the responses of his contemporaries and successors but also against our current philosophical understanding. It will have wide appeal among all Arabists and Islamicists, and among students and scholars of philosophy. --This text refers to the Library Binding edition.
About the Author
L. E. Goodman is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hawaii, Manoa. --This text refers to the Library Binding edition.
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Shouldered between India and Arabia and pinched between the Caspian and the Persian Gulf, the great land mass of Iran that lies between the river systems of the Tigris and Euphrates to the west and the Indus and Helmand to the east, widens north of the Arabian sea, into the mountainous highlands of Khorasan, stretching north and eastward as it rounds the Caspian at Jurjan, to the cities of Nishapur, Meshed, Tus, Merw, Herat and Balkh, the Pamir mountains and the Hindu Kush. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Ibn Sind, Ibn Sinā, New York, Ibn Rushd, Ibn Sini, Danesh Nameh, Ibn Tufayl,
Shouldered between India and Arabia and pinched between the Caspian and the Persian Gulf, the great land mass of Iran that lies between the river systems of the Tigris and Euphrates to the west and the Indus and Helmand to the east, widens north of the Arabian sea, into the mountainous highlands of Khorasan, stretching north and eastward as it rounds the Caspian at Jurjan, to the cities of Nishapur, Meshed, Tus, Merw, Herat and Balkh, the Pamir mountains and the Hindu Kush. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
predicative terms, human rational soul, active intellect, truth functional connectives, first edn Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Ibn Sind, Ibn Sinā, New York, Ibn Rushd, Ibn Sini, Danesh Nameh, Ibn Tufayl,