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Framing Avicenna''S Science Of The Soul

by Tommaso Alpina
language: english
Publisher: De Gruyter, February of 2021 ‧
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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 Kitb 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).

Subject, Definition, Activity

Framing Avicenna''S Science Of The Soul

by Tommaso Alpina

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ISBN: 9783110706956
Publisher: De Gruyter
Release Date: February of 2021
Language: English
Format: eBook
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Collection: Scientia Graeco-Arabica
Categories: eBooks in English > History > Ancient history
eBooks in English > Fiction > History of Literature
eBooks in English > Social Sciences and Humanities > Philosophy
EAN: 9783110706956
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