Ibn Sinas Remarks and Admonitions: Physics and Metaphysics - An Analysis and Annotated Translation

Grounded in an exploration of logic and happiness (the ultimate human goal), the text illuminates the divine, the human being, and the nature of things through a wide-ranging discussion of topics.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Analysis of the Text
Part Two: Physics
Prologue
First Class: On the Substance of Bodies
Second Class: On the Directions and Their Primary and Secondary Bodies
Third Class: On the Terrestrial and Celestial Souls
Supplement to the [Third] Class: On Expositing the Movements Produced by the Soul
Part Three: Metaphysics
Fourth Class: On Existence and Its Causes
Fifth Class: Creation Ex Nihilo and Immediate Creation
Sixth Class: On Ends, on Their Principles, and on the Arrangement of existence
Seventh Class: On Abstraction
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Shams C. Inati

Zusammenfassung

Grounded in an exploration of logic and happiness (the ultimate human goal), the text illuminates the divine, the human being, and the nature of things through a wide-ranging discussion of topics.

Produktdetails

• Mitarbeit: Shams C. Inati (Übersetzung), Inati Shams C. (Übersetzung)
• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 08.07.2014
• EAN: 9780231166164
• ISBN: 978-0-231-16616-4
• Seiten: 248
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Philosophie; Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Sonstiges; PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Medieval, Philosophy, RELIGION / Islam / History, RELIGION / Mysticism, Islamic and Arab philosophy