The Heirs of Avicenna : : Philosophy in the Islamic East, 12-13th Centuries / / Peter Adamson and Fedor Benevich.

"This is the first in a series of sourcebooks charting the reception of Avicenna (Ibn Sina, d.1037) in the Islamic East (from Syria to central Asia) in the 12th-13th centuries CE. Avicenna was the dominant philosophical authority in this period, who provoked generations of thinkers to subtle cr...

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Superior document:Islamicate Intellectual History Series ; Volume 12
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, The Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill nv,, [2023]
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Year of Publication:2023
Edition:First edition.
Language:English
Series:Islamicate intellectual history ; Volume 12.
Physical Description:1 online resource
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Subject Matter of Metaphysics and Kalam
  • 2. The Essence-Existence Distinction
  • 3. Univocity and Equivocity of Existence
  • 4. Non-Existence and Mental Existence
  • 5. Universals
  • 6. Platonic Forms
  • 7. Individuation
  • 8. Proofs for God's Existence
  • 9 God's Essence
  • 10. God's Knowledge
  • 11. God's Knowledge of Particulars
  • 12. Free Will, Determinism, and Human Action
  • 13. Good and Evil
  • Bibliography
  • Index.