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Avicenna's Al-Shifa' - Oriental Philosophy (Paperback)
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Avicenna's Al-Shifa' - Oriental Philosophy (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Islamic Philosophy
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This book deals with the philosophy of Ibn Sina - Avicenna as he
was known in the Latin West- a Persian Muslim who lived in the
eleventh century, considered one of the most important figures in
the history of philosophy. Although much has been written about
Avicenna, and especially about his major philosophical work,
Al-Shifa, this book presents the rationalist Avicenna in an
entirely new light, showing him to have presented a theory where
our claims of knowledge about the world are in effect just that,
claims, and must therefore be underwritten by our faith in God. His
project enlists arguments in psychology as well as in language and
logic. In a sense, the ceiling he puts on the reach of reason can
be compared with later rationalists in the Western tradition, from
Descartes to Kant -though, unlike Descartes, he does not deem it
necessary to reconstruct his theory of knowledge via a proof of the
existence of God. Indeed, Avicenna's theory presents the concept of
God as being necessarily presupposed by our theory of knowledge,
and God as the Necessary Being who is presupposed by an existing
world where nothing of itself is what it is by an intrinsic nature,
and must therefore be as it is due to an external cause. The
detailed and original analysis of Avicenna's work here is presented
as what he considered to be his own, or 'oriental' philosophy.
Presenting an innovative interpretation of Avicenna's thought, this
book will appeal to scholars working on classical Islamic
philosophy, kalam and the History of Logic.
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