Avicenna Illuminated - Suhrawardi's Critique of Aristotelian Categories and Hylomorphism

Die Reihe Scientia Graeco-Arabica (SGA) widmet sich grundlegenden Texten der Wissenschaft und Philosophie der Antike und der islamischen Welt, die arabisch überliefert sind. Durch Bereitstellung kritischer Textausgaben und monographischer Untersuchungen werden der Forschung diejenigen Themenbereiche zugänglich gemacht, in denen sich die Wissenschaft zwischen der Antike und der Moderne kontinuierlich dargestellt und entwickelt hat. Die Textausgaben werden von Übersetzungen begleitet und durch inhaltliche Erläuterungen und philologische Anmerkungen erschlossen.
Publikationssprachen sind Englisch, Deutsch, Französisch und Italienisch.

Info autore

Hanif Amin Beidokhti
, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU München), Germany.

Riassunto

This study tracks the progress of Suhrawardī’s philosophy focusing on his critique of the axial doctrine of the categories and topics related to it: predication and hylomorphism. While it’s known that he rejected hylomorphism and reduced the categories into five, it’s not known how and in which context he has achieved his positions. This is a philosophical study with an eye on the history of concepts. Each chapter detects the historical development from Aristotle through his commentators to Avicenna and critical Avicennans, and then to Suhrawardī.

Suhrawardī discerns two diverging projects in the Categories: An ontological project of the ten highest genera of being, and a project of predication embodied in Aristotle’s predicative square. He discusses the latter in the
Isagoge
, whereas the former is discussed and reduced to five (substance, quality, quantity, relation, motion) in metaphysics. He also shifts hylomorphism from metaphysics – its Avicennan locus – to physics. Perhaps for this reason scholars never paid attention to his proper texts for the theory of body and confined themselves with the polemics of
Ḥ
ikmat al-išrāq. This is the first study of physics and general metaphysics of
al-Talwīḥāt
,
al-Mašāriʿ
, and
al-Muqāwamāt
.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Hanif Amin-Beidokhti, Hanif Amin Beidokhti
• Editore: De Gruyter
• Lingue: Arabo, Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 14.03.2025
• EAN: 9783111253619
• ISBN: 978-3-11-125361-9
• Pagine: 516
• Peso: 995 g
• Illustrazioni: 11 b/w tbl.
• Serie: Scientia Graeco-Arabica
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Filosofia > Antichità; Philosophie, Altgriechisch, Arabisch, Alte Geschichte, Archäologie, Aristotelismus, Avicenna, Philosophy, History of Science, Classical history / classical civilisation, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, Islamic & Arabic philosophy, HIS002000 HISTORY / Ancient / General, REL051000 RELIGION / Philosophy, LIT004190 LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, REL037000 RELIGION / Islam / General, Bahmanyār, Yaḥyā Ibn-Ḥabaš Suhrawardī, Suhrawardī, Yaḥyā Ibn-Ḥabaš, aristotelism