Author : Amos Bertolacci
Release : 2006-06-01
Genre : Religion
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis The Reception of Aristotle's Metaphysics in Avicenna's Kitāb al-Šifā' by : Amos Bertolacci
Download or read book The Reception of Aristotle's Metaphysics in Avicenna's Kitāb al-Šifā' written by Amos Bertolacci. This book was released on 2006-06-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The systematic comparison of Avicenna’s Ilāhiyyāt of the Šifā' with Aristotle’s Metaphysics, accomplished for the first time in the present volume, provides a detailed account of Avicenna’s reworking of the epistemological profile and contents of the Metaphysics and a comprehensive investigation of this latter’s transmission in pre-Avicennian Greek and Arabic philosophy.