Alfarabi, Avicenna, and Averroes on intellect: their cosmologies, theories of the active intellect, and theories of human intellect
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Main Author: Davidson, Herbert A., (Herbert Alan) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Oxford University Press 1992
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Online Access:DE-1046
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
The distinction between the potential intellect and the active intellect was first drawn by Aristotle. Medieval Islamic, Jewish, Christian philosophers, and European philosophers in the sixteenth century considered it a possible key to deciphering the nature of man and the universe. In this book, Herbert Davidson examines the treatment of intellect in Alfarabi (d. 950), Avicenna (980-1037) and Averroes (1126-1198), with particular attention to the way in which they addressed the tangle of issues that grew up around the active intellect
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (x, 363 p.)
ISBN:0195074238
1280526114
142940115X
9781280526114
9781429401159

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