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This digital document is an article from Science and Its Times, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 1465 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.The histories of science, technology, and mathematics merge with the study of humanities and social science in this interdisciplinary reference work. Essays on people, theories, discoveries, and concepts are combined with overviews, bibliographies of primary documents, and chronological elements to offer students a fascinating way to understand the impact of science on the course of human history and how science affects everyday life. Entries represent people and developments throughout the world, from about 2000 B.C. through the end of the twentieth century. ... Read more

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"Parviz Morewedge’s translation of Avicenna’s Metaphysics is a significant contribution to the scholarship in Islamic philosophy…"

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Ibn Sina (980-1037), or known as "Avicenna" in the Latin West, is, in my humble opinion, after having just finished reading his "The Metaphysica", the greatest of the Medieval philosophers. I've read Boethius, Erigena, Averroes, Al-Farabi, Anselm, Eckhart, Scotus, Aquinas, Ockham, De Cusa, etc., and none of them have left me with the depth and breadth of knowledge nor concepts that Ibn Sina has. He takes the reader to the summit and depths of Aristotelian and Neoplatonic philosophy. He was an idealist and existentialist synthesized. His notion that essence and existence are exactly the same in God's absolute unity (God's infinite equality making them so) and separate in an individual man (essence being the "necessary idea" and existence being an "accidental idea") is very complex to grasp properly; but once it is grasped, you'll never let it go. You can see where Ockham got some of his understanding of first and second intentions (intuitive cognition and abstractive cognition). It's also evident to me that medieval suppositio theorists got many of their concepts from Avicenna--Duns Scotus, Aquinas, Ockham, just to name a few. Ibn Sina believed God is a being, unlike Proclus who believed God is beyond being. He differs time and again with Proclus as he does with Aristotle. He certainly has earned the title "The Philosopher of Being". There is a reason why St. Thomas Aquinas quoted Avicenna over 250 times in "The Summa Theologica" and other writings; the "The Metaphysica" will make it blatantly obvious why he did. Ibn Sina begins "The Metaphysica" by explaining the numbers of philosophical sciences, then analyses the nature of being, its application to things, and expounds on substance. He delves into the mysterious nature of substratum-matter and form--both incorporeal and corporeal--carrying those very forms from lower intellects to the highest intelligibles, directly uniting them to the Necessary Existent (i.e., God). He expounds on quality, quantity, and accidentality; the condition of universality and particularity; of unity and plurality; of priority and posteriority; of cause and effect; potentiality and actuality; and being as being necessary and being contingent. Those are just a handful of the treasures of wisdom Avicenna reveals to the eye of the speculative intellect. The book has a brief "Introduction". However, there are "Notes to the Text", which provide invaluable information on Aristotelian and Neoplatonic sources, distinctions, similarities, and so much more. At the end there is a long "The Commentary" by Parviz Morewedge, followed by "Notes to the Commentary". The book has a "Glossary" at the very back, which is helpful in understanding Persian terms. Overall Parviz Morewedge did a superlative job with this book. This single volume is essential to any quality philosophy or theology collection. It is just as relevant today as it was before or after St. Thomas Aquinas' time. If it seems a bit pricey for your budget now, you will consider it a bargain after you buy it and finish reading it. You'll come away understanding Aristotelian and Neoplatonic philosophy with a much greater insight, as well as learning a new philosophical system by a master seer. I highly recommend this magnificent volume of esoteric wisdom. ... Read more

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Soul; Islamic philosophy; Avicenna, 980-1037; Ghazzåalåi, 1058-1111; comparative study. ... Read more

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Avicenna, 980-1037; bio-bibliography. ... Read more

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Study of a classical critic of Avicenna's views on the existence and nature of God. ... Read more

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DescriptionProbing in Islamic Philosophy, Studies in th Philosophies of Ibn Sina, al-Ghazali and Other Major Muslim Thinkers: For the historian of ideas, interest in medieval Islamic philosophy is not something new. But thus interest has been intensified with the growth of a fuller awareness of the impact this philosophy has had on the development of European thought. Over emphasis of this influence, however, can distract from treating the Islamic philosophers in their own right, that is, as philosophers who have developed ideas of their own that are intrinsic in value. The approach of these studies is thus to probe and analyze what these thinkers actually said.The first part is devoted to Ibn Sina (Avicenna), noted for his refining the distinction between essence and existence, which constitutes the basis for his proof of God’s existence and for his significant theory of the universals. The second part is devotes to Avicenna’s theologian critic, Ghazali, noted for his argument that a necessary causal connection between natural events can be proved neither logically nor empirically. The third part pertains to various central themes in Islamic philosophy and includes discussions of the thought of such philosophers as Kindi, Razi, Ibn Tufayl, and Ibn Rushd (Averroes). It concludes with a discussion of on the issues that divided the Islamic theologians, namely whether the value of the moral act is intrinsic to it or whether it is solely derived from the religious law. VISIT http://academicpublishing.binghamton.edu/bookhtml/1-58684-254-4.html for chapter information. ... Read more

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Avicenna, 980-1037; views on; Islam; doctrines; controversy work. ... Read more

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Few figures have been of such enduring importance as the Persian philosopher and physician Ibn Sina, also known as Avicenna (978-1037 A.D.) Ibn Sina and Mysticism explores the fourth part of Ibn Sina's most comprehensive book, al-Isharat wat-Tanbihat--or Remarks and Admonitions--a book which Ibn Sina described as "the cream of the truth." The book includes a full translation of al-Isharat wat-Tanbihat, along with a critical discussion of the work in the context of Ibn Sina's other writings, as well as a detailed explication of the translating process. ... Read more