Avicenna, "the healing, logic: isagoge" : a new edition, english translation and commentary of the kitāb al-madḫal of avicenna's kitāb al-šifāʼ / Silvia Di Vincenzo, Avicenna.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Di Vincenzo, Silvia, author.

Avicenna, 980-1037, author.

Series:

Scientia Graeco-Arabica

Scientia Graeco-Arabica ; 31

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Predicate (Logic).

Metaphysics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (CLXXVIII, 420 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Germany ; Boston, Massachusetts : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2021]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This book offers a new edition, with English translation and commentary, of the Kitāb al-Madḫal, which opens Avicenna's (d. 1037) most comprehensive summa of Peripatetic philosophy, namely the Kitāb al-Šifāʾ. For the first time, the text is established together with a stemma codicum showing the genealogical relations among 34 manuscripts, the twelfth-century Latin translation, and the literal "ations by Avicenna's first and second-generation students. In this book, Avicenna's reappraisal of Porphyry's Isagoge is examined from both a historical and a philosophical point of view. The key-features of Avicenna's theory of predicables are analyzed in the General Introduction and in the Commentary both in their own right and against the background of the Greek and Arabic exegetical tradition. Readers shall find in this book the first systematic study of the Madḫal which, in addition to being the only logical work of the Šifāʾ ever transmitted in its entirety both in Arabic and in Latin, is crucial for understanding Avicenna's conception of universal predicables at the crossroads between logic and metaphysics.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Acknowledgements

Contents

Editing Avicenna's Madḫal: Introduction to the Edition

Edition and Translation

Commentary

Treatise I

Treatise II

Appendix A

Appendix B: Unedited texts of the school of Baġdād

Bibliographical references

Index of Names

Index of the Arabic Technical Terms and Expressions

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783110726565

3110726564

OCLC:

1248759523