Self-Awareness in Islamic Philosophy - Avicenna and Beyond

"This book is the distillation of the research conducted during my postdoctoral period, but some of its central insights were already formed during my doctoral studies. I therefore owe an immense debt of gratitude to my supervisors, the late Juha Sihvola, Mikko Yrjonsuuri, and Taneli Kukkonen. The extremely conscientious and insightful comments of Jon McGinnis and Simo Knuuttila provided crucial corroboration and realignment at a formative stage"--

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Preliminary observations: self-cognition and Avicennian psychology; 2. Avicenna and the phenomenon of self-awareness: the experiential basis of the flying man; 3. Self-awareness as existence: Avicenna on the individuality of an incorporeal substance; 4. In the first person: Avicenna's concept of self-awareness reconstructed; 5. Self-awareness without substance: from Ab¿ al-Barak¿t al-Baghd¿d¿ to Suhraward¿; 6. Self-awareness, presence, appearance: the ishr¿q¿ context; 7. Mull¿ Sadr¿ on self-awareness; 8. The self reconsidered: Sadrian revisions to the Avicennian concept; Conclusion: who is the I?; Appendix: Arabic terminology related to self-awareness; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Jari Kaukua is Academy of Finland Research Fellow in the Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy at the University of Jyväskylä. He is the author of several articles in journals including Vivarium and History and Theory. This is his first book.

Product details

• Authors: Jari Kaukua, Jari (University of Jyvaskyla Kaukua, Kaukua Jari
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2015
• EAN: 9781107088795
• ISBN: 978-1-107-08879-5
• No. of pages: 268
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Islam, History, History of Ideas, prehistory, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Medieval, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy, Islamic Studies, History of Western philosophy, Non-Western philosophy, BCE to c 500 CE, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE, Western philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600, Relating to Islamic / Muslim people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities, Islamic & Arabic philosophy, Islamic and Arab philosophy