A Comparative Study of Beauty and its Relation to Pleasure and Goodness in the Philosophy of Plotinus and Avicenna [PDF]
آموزههای فلسفه اسلاميThe truth and nature of beauty, as a secondary intelligible (Arabic: مَعْقولُ الْثَّانی, romanized: maʿqūl al-thānī), have become a topic of discussion among philosophers.
Muḥammūd Ṣeydiī +1 more
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Some of non-Aristotelian elements in philosophy of Avicenna [PDF]
تاریخ فلسفه اسلامیAvicenna (Ibn Sinā) is the inheritor of Peripatetic Philosophy. Peripatetic Philosophy is the same as Philosophy of Aristotle, and Avicenna always praised Aristotle for that he reformed and reorganized philosophy in a logical and intellectual framework ...
Ebrahim Dadjoo
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The Forms of God's Transcendence in the Philosophy of Ibn Sina
حکمت سینوی, 2019 According to the Ibn Sina's thoughts, there are subtleties and inner possibilities by which one would infer the various forms of God's transcendence. The main question of the present inquiry is what forms of God's transcendence would be presented based ...
Shahnaz Shayanfar
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Methodos, 2022 This paper endeavors to look into the physiognomical syllogism as occurring in Avicenna’s different summae and to tentatively discuss possible reasons for its select occurrence in some of them and not others, as well as possible implications of this ...
Jens Ole Schmitt
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Why the One Cannot Have Parts: Plotinus on Divine Simplicity, Ontological Independence, and Perfect Being Theology [PDF]
, 2017 I use Plotinus to present absolute divine simplicity as the consequence of principles about metaphysical and explanatory priority to which most theists are already committed.
Cohoe, Caleb M.
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The Mystery of Awe and Silence at the Level of the Uniqueness of Divine Essence: The Views of Avicenna, Mullā Ṣadrā, and ʿAllāma Ṭabāṭaāʾī [PDF]
حکمت معاصرIn their theological works, Muslim philosophers tend to elaborate on the unity and other attributes of the Necessary Existent (wājib al-wujūd) after establishing its existence. In such discussions, they examine the essence (dhāt) alongside its attributes
Fatemeh Sadeqzadeh Qamsari
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Contemporary Reflections on Substantial Kind Change in Avicenna
Theoria, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Contemporary metaphysics, and especially neo‐Aristotelian metaphysics, tackles many of the same problems as Avicenna did. One of these problems is the possibility of substantial kind change. For instance, is it possible for an animal to change its species?
Tuomas E. Tahko
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Neoplatonism in the Liber Naturalis and Shifā: De anima or Metaphysica of Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā) [PDF]
, 2010 Avicenna or Ibn Sīnā was born circa 980 in Afshna, near Bukhara, in Persia. He worked briefly for the Samanid administration, but left Bukhara, and lived in the area of Tehran and Isfahan, where he completed the Shifā (Healing [from error]) under the ...
Hendrix, John S
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PSR, Modal Collapse, and Open Future in Ibn Sīnā's Philosophy
Theoria, EarlyView.ABSTRACT It has been contended that the Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR) implies necessitarianism—that is, the view that everything occurs out of necessity. Discussing a well‐known argument for this claim developed by contemporary metaphysicians, I show that Ibn Sīnā has anticipated a counterpart of this argument, and that is precisely why he is ...
Mohammad Saleh Zarepour
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Faith & Fable Islamic Manuscripts from Cambridge University Library [PDF]
, 2011 The first Islamic manuscript to enter the Library was a copy of the Qur’an donated in 1631 by the Arabic scholar William Bedwell. Since that time the Library’s Islamic manuscripts collection has grown in size and diversity to over 5,000 items.
Ansorge
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