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Ibn Gabirol's theology of desire : matter and method in Jewish medieval Neoplatonism /
"Drawing on Arabic passages from Ibn Gabirol's original Fons Vitae text, and highlighting philosophical insights from his Hebrew poetry, Sarah Pessin develops a "Theology of Desire" at the heart of Ibn Gabirol's eleventh-century cosmo-ontology. She challenges centuries of re...
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of Figures; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Discovering Ibn Gabirol: The Aims and Goals of This Project; 1.2 Chapter Guide; 2 Text in Context; 2.1 First Unfoldings; 2.2 Background; 2.3 Desire and Love: Terminological Preamble I; 2.3.1 Desire as God-Born and God-Directed; 2.3.2 Desire as Love; 2.4 From Divine Will to Divine-Irda-as-Desire: Terminological Preamble II; 2.5 From Prime Matter to Grounding Element: Terminological Preamble III; 2.5.1 Matter Terminology in Ibn Gabirols Milieu; 2.5.2 Ibn Gabirols al-'unur al-awwal.
- 3 From Human Being to Discourse on Matter? The Threefold Quest for Wisdom, Goodness, and God
- and the Root of Life in Desire3.1 The Epistemological, Ethical, and Theological Context; 3.1.1 The Epistemological Call; 3.1.2 The Ethico-Theological Call; 3.2 Metaphysics of Matter and Desire at the Core of All; 3.3 Positive Valuations of Matter: A Reversal of Intuitions; 4 Root Desire and the Pseudo-Empedoclean Grounding Element as Love; 4.1 Desire at the Core of Being; 4.2 Love Makes the World Go Round: Some Greek and Arabic Sources; 4.2.1 Aristotle; 4.2.2 The Theology of Aristotle.
- 4.2.3 Avicennas "Rislah fi'l-'ishq"4.2.4 Islamic and Jewish Neoplatonized Aristotelianism; 4.3 A Pseudo-Empedoclean Love Story: Unspecified Being, Matter over Form, and the Kernel of Desire; 4.4 In the Illuminating Shadow: Ibn Gabirols Pseudo-Empedoclean Revision of the Neoplatonic Return; 5 From Divine Will to Divine Irda: On the Mistaken Scholarly Rejection of Ibn Gabirols Emanationism; 5.0 "Divine Will" and the Mistaken Scholarly Rejection of Ibn Gabirols Emanationism.
- 5.1 Trying to Make Sense of Scholarship on Ibn Gabirols So-Called Anti-Emanation Voluntarism: The Rejection of Divine Emanation in a Limited Emanation Framework?5.2 Problems with the Limited Emanation Framework Reading: Free Choice, Mediated versus Unmediated Will, and Three Varieties of Voluntarism; 5.3 Divine Will versus Divine Emanation? Casting More Doubt on the Canonical Voluntarist Reading of Ibn Gabirol; 5.4 Rethinking Will and Emanation.
- 5.4.1 Emanation and Will I: Since When Does "Divine Will" Mean "No Divine Emanation" in a Neoplatonic Context? (Considering Divine Will in Plotinus and the Theology of Aristotle)5.4.2 Emanation and Will II: Is the Term "Will" Leading Some to Mistaken Conclusions? (Considering the Possibility of Augustinian Overtones); 5.5 Rethinking "Intermediating between the Extremes": Two Competing Views; 5.5.1 Intermediation I: Brunners Horizontal Intuitions, Divine Will in Opposition to Divine Emanation, and an Occasionalist God?
- 5.5.2 Intermediation II: On the Vertical Image of Intermediation in Ibn Gabirol
- Toward a New Reading of Divine Irda as Divine Emanation.