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Alfarabi, Avicenna, and Averroes on intellect : their cosmologies, theories of the active intellect, and theories of human intellect /
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, He...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1992.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.