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Introduction

From the book Avicenna's Metaphysics in Context

  • Robert Wisnovsky
https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501711527-003
© 2018 Cornell University Press, Ithaca
From the book
Avicenna's Metaphysics in Context
Avicenna's Metaphysics in Context

Chapters in this book (25)

Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgements
A Note on Transliteration and Citation
Introduction
Part I: Avicenna and the Ammonian Synthesis
1. Aristotle: Perfection in the Definitions of the Soul and of Change
2. Alexander and Themistius: Attempts at Reconciliation
3. Proclus, Ammonius and Asclepius: The Neoplatonic Turn to Causation
4. Proclus, Ammonius and Philoponus: Neoplatonic Perfection and Aristotelian Soul
5. Greek into Arabic: The Greco-Arabic Translations and the Early Arabic Philosophers
6. Avicenna on Perfection and the Soul: The Issue of Separability
Part II: The Beginnings of the Avicennian Synthesis
7. Essence and Existence (A): Materials from the Kalām and al-Fārābī
8. Essence and Existence (B): Shay'iyya or Sababiyya?
9. Essence and Existence (C): The Question of Evolution
10. Causal Self-Sufficiency vs. Causal Productivity
11. Necessity and Possibility (A): Materials from the Arabic Aristotle
12. Necessity and Possibility (B): Materials from al-Fārābī
13. Necessity and Possibility (C): Materials from the Kalām
14. Necessity and Possibility (D): The Question of Evolution
Conclusion
Appendix I: Tables of Greco-Arabic Translation
Appendix II: Transcriptions of Lemmata from MS Uppsala Or. 364
Bibliography
Index of Lemmata
General Index
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