Avicenna on the Ontology of Pure Quiddity / / Damien Janos.
This study focuses on the metaphysics of the great Arabic philosopher Avicenna (or Ibn Sīnā, d. 1037 C.E.). More specifically, it delves into Avicenna’s theory of quiddity or essence, a topic which seized the attention of thinkers both during the medieval and modern periods. Building on recent contr...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Scientia Graeco-Arabica ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (XII, 762 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter I: Pure Quiddity in Context
- Chapter II: Quiddity in Itself and Mental Existence
- Chapter III: Quiddity in Itself in the Concrete World
- Chapter IV: The Special Ontological Mode of Quiddity in Itself
- Chapter V: The Divine Origin of Pure Quiddity
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1: The Avicennian terminology of pure quiddity
- Appendix 2: The existence of pure quiddity: A list of textual references
- Appendix 3: Quiddity and Avicenna’s matrices of distinctions
- Bibliography
- Index of Names and Places
- Index of Technical Terms