The Reception of Aristotle's Metaphysics in Avicenna's Kitāb al-Šifā'

A Milestone of Western Metaphysical Thought

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Amos Bertolacci
This volume deals with the reception of Aristotle’s Metaphysics in the masterpiece on metaphysics by Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā, d. 1037 C.E.), one of the major exponents of Arabic philosophy: the Ilāhiyyāt (Science of Divine Things) of the Kitāb al-Šifā’ (Book of the Cure), known in the Latin Middle Ages as Liber de Philosophia Prima sive Scientia Divina.
The first part of the book (on the Arabic translations of the Metaphysics, al-Kindī and al-Fārābī) introduces the discussion of Avicenna’s reshaping of the epistemological profile of the Metaphysics in Part II (his account of the subject-matter, structure, method and role of metaphysics in the system of sciences) and the recasting of its contents in Part III.
The present volume provides the first systematic comparison of the Ilāhiyyāt with the Metaphysics and a comprehensive account of this latter’s transmission in pre-Avicennian Greek and Arabic philosophy.
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Front Matter
Preliminary Material
Introduction
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter One The Arabic Translations of the Metaphysics: A New Assessment on Account of the Evidence Provided by Avicenna
Chapter Two Beyond al-Kindī and al-Fārābī: Avicenna’s Position in the History of the Arab Reception of the Metaphysics
Chapter Three Between Ammonius and Avicenna: al-Fārābī’s Treatise on the Goals of Aristotle’s Metaphysics
Introduction
Chapter Four Avicenna’s Conception of the Theme of the Metaphysics: “Existent Qua Existent” as the Subject-Matter, the First Causes and God as the Goal of Metaphysics
Chapter Five Avicenna’s Reworking of the Structure of the Metaphysics: Metaphysics as the Discipline Dealing with the Species, the Properties and the Principles of “Existent”
Chapter Six Avicenna’s Elaboration of the Method of the Metaphysics: Metaphysics as a Demonstrative, Analytical, Non-Dialectical Science
Chapter Seven Avicenna’S Conception of the Relationship Between the Metaphysics and the Other Parts of the Aristotelian Corpus: Metaphysics as the Founding Discipline
Introduction
Chapter Eight The Quotations of the Metaphysics in the Ilāhiyyāt
Chapter Nine The Main Source of Avicenna’s Conception of Metaphysics as a Science: Book Γ and its Quotations
Chapter Ten Avicenna’s Attitude Towards Dialectic: Book B and its Quotations
Chapter Eleven The Other Sources of the Ilāhiyyāt
Conclusion
Back Matter
Towards a Critical Edition of the Ilāhiyyāt: List of Corrections of the Cairo Printed Text
Index of Authors and Works Quoted in the Ilāhiyyāt
Overview of the Main Works by Avicenna on Metaphysics in Chronological Order
Names for Aristotle’s Metaphysics and Metaphysics as a Discipline in Avicenna’s Works
The Style of the Kitāb al-Šifāʾ
The Terminology for “Property” in the Ilāhiyyāt
Bibliography
Index of Names and Places
Index of Aristotle’s Works with Passages Cited
Index of Avicenna’s Works with Passages Cited
Index of Manuscripts
Index of Texts, Outlines, Tables
Amos Bertolacci, Ph.D. (2005) in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Yale University, Doctorate (1998) in Philosophy, University of Florence, is currently Alexander von Humboldt fellow at the Thomas-Institut of the University of Cologne. He has published extensively on Avicenna’s metaphysics and its reception in the Latin Middle Ages.
"…this monumental study, [...] fills a gap in the scholarship and will remain a reference book for scholars in the field." - Cristina D’Ancona, in: International Journal of the Classical Tradition
All those interested in the history of metaphysics, Medieval Arabic philosophy, and the transmission of Greek philosophy into Arabic.
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Brill
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xviii, 678 pp.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789047408710

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