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Avicenna (Paperback)
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Avicenna (Paperback)
Series: Great Medieval Thinkers
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Ibn Sina (980-1037), known as Avicenna in Latin, played a
considerable role in the development of both Eastern and Western
philosophy and science. His contributions to the fields of logic,
natural science, psychology, metaphysics, theology, and even
medicine were vast. His work was to have a significant impact on
Thomas Aquinas, among others, who explicitly and frequently drew
upon the ideas of his Muslim predecessor. Avicenna also affected
the thinking of the great Islamic theologian al-Ghazali, who
asserted that if one could show the incoherence of Avicenna's
thought, then one would have demonstrated the incoherence of
philosophy in general. But Avicenna's influence is not confined to
the medieval period. His logic, natural philosophy, and metaphysics
are still taught in the Islamic world as living philosophy, and
many contemporary Catholic and evangelical Christian philosophers
continue to encounter his ideas through Aquinas's work. Using a
small handful of novel insights, Avicenna not only was able to
address a host of issues that had troubled earlier philosophers in
both the ancient Hellenistic and medieval Islamic worlds, but also
fundamentally changed the direction of philosophy, in the Islamic
East as well as in Jewish and Christian milieus.
Despite Avicenna's important place in the history of ideas, there
has been no single volume that both recognizes the complete range
of his intellectual activity and provides a rigorous analysis of
his philosophical thinking. This book fills that need. In Avicenna
Jon McGinnis provides a general introduction to the thinker's
intellectual system and offers a careful philosophical analysis of
major aspects of his work in clear prose that will be accessible to
students as well as to specialists in Islamic studies, philosophy,
and the history of science.
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