The Reception of Aristotle's Metaphysics in Avicenna's Kitāb Al-Sifā'

A Milestone of Western Metaphysical Thought
Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-90-04-14899-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 63, 678 Seiten, Format (B × H): 167 mm x 248 mm, Gewicht: 1356 g

Reihe: Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies

This volume deals with the reception of Aristotle’s Metaphysics in the masterpiece on metaphysics by Avicenna (Ibn Sina, d. 1037 C.E.), one of the major exponents of Arabic philosophy: the Ilahiyyat (Science of Divine Things) of the Kitab al-Šifa’ (Book of the Cure), known in the Latin Middle Ages as Liber de Philosophia Prima sive Scientia Divina.
The first part of the book (on the Arabic translations of the Metaphysics, al-Kindi and al-Farabi) introduces the discussion of Avicenna’s reshaping of the epistemological profile of the Metaphysics in Part II (his account of the subject-matter, structure, method and role of metaphysics in the system of sciences) and the recasting of its contents in Part III.
The present volume provides the first systematic comparison of the Ilahiyyat with the Metaphysics and a comprehensive account of this latter’s transmission in pre-Avicennian Greek and Arabic philosophy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bertolacci, Amos

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Nicht-Westliche Philosophie Indische & Asiatische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Mittelalterliche & Scholastische Philosophie

Über Autor(innen)

Amos Bertolacci, Ph.D. (2005) in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Yale University, Doctorate (1998) in Philosophy, University of Florence, is currently Alexander von Humboldt fellow at the Thomas-Institut of the University of Cologne. He has published extensively on Avicenna’s metaphysics and its reception in the Latin Middle Ages.