Ibn Sina's Remarks and Admonitions: Physics and Metaphysics : An Analysis and Annotated Translation.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Avicenna, 980-1037.

Contributor:

Inati, Shams.

Standardized Title:

Ishārāt wa-al-tanbīhāt. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islamic philosophy--Early works to 1800.

Islamic philosophy.

Philosophy, Medieval.

Physics--Early works to 1800.

Physics.

Metaphysics--Early works to 1800.

Metaphysics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Al-Isharat wal-Tanbihat (Remarks and Admonitions) is one of the most mature and comprehensive philosophical works by Ibn Sina (Avicenna, 980-1037). Grounded in an exploration of logic (which Ibn Sina described as the gate to knowledge) and happiness (the ultimate human goal), the text illuminates the divine, the human being, and the nature of things through a wide-ranging discussion of topics. The sections of Physics and Metaphysics deal with the nature of bodies and souls as well as existence, creation, and knowledge. Especially important are Ibn Sina's views of God's knowledge of particulars, which generated much controversy in medieval Islamic and Christian philosophical and theological circles and provoked a strong rejection by eleventh-century philosopher al-Ghazali.This book provides the first annotated English translation of Physics and Metaphysics and edits the original Arabic text on which the translation is based. It begins with a detailed analysis of the text, followed by a translation of the three classes or groups of ideas in the Physics (On the Substance of Bodies, On the Directions and Their Primary and Secondary Bodies, and On the Terrestrial and Celestial Souls) and the four in the Metaphysics (On Existence and Its Causes, Creation Ex Nihilo and Immediate Creation, On Ends, on Their Principles, and on the Arrangement [of Existence], and On Abstraction. The Metaphysics closes with a significant discussion of the concepts of providence, good, and evil, which Ibn Sina uses to introduce a theodicy.Researchers, faculty, and students in philosophy, theology, religion, and intellectual history will find in this work a useful and necessary source for understanding Ibn Sina's philosophical thought and, more generally, the medieval Islamic and Christian study of nature, the world beyond, psychology, God, and the concept of evil.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Analysis of the Text

Part two. Physics

Prologue

First Class: On the Substance of Bodies

Second Class: On the Directions and Their Primary and Secondary Bodies

Third Class: On the Terrestrial and Celestial Souls

Supplement to the [Third] Class: On Expositing the Movements Produced by the Soul

Part three. Metaphysics

Fourth Class: On existence and Its Causes

Fifth Class: Creation ex Nihilo and Immediate Creation

Sixth Class: On ends, on Their Principles, and on the Arrangement of existence

Seventh Class: On Abstraction

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9780231537421

0231537425

OCLC:

979745620