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Subject, Definition, Activity - Framing Avicenna's Science of the Soul (Paperback)
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Subject, Definition, Activity - Framing Avicenna's Science of the Soul (Paperback)
Series: Scientia Graeco-Arabica
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This book offers for the first time a comprehensive study of the
reception and reworking of the Peripatetic theory of the soul in
the Kitab al-Nafs (Book of the Soul) by Avicenna (d. 1037). This
study seeks to frame Avicenna's science of the soul (or psychology)
by focusing on three key concepts: subject, definition, and
activity. The examination of these concepts will disclose the
twofold consideration of the soul in Avicenna's psychology. Besides
the 'general approach' to the soul of sublunary living beings,
which is the formal principle of the body, Avicenna's psychology
also exhibits a 'specific orientation' towards the soul in itself,
i.e. the human rational soul that, considered in isolation from the
body, is a self-subsistent substance, identical with the
theoretical intellect and capable of surviving severance from the
body. These two investigations demonstrate the coexistence in
Avicenna's psychology of a more specific and less physical science
(psychologia specialis) within a more general and overall physical
one (psychologia generalis).
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