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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Avicenna"”.
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The Metaphysics of Causation in the Creation Accounts of Avicenna and Aquinas
… causal theories of two prominent philosophers, Avicenna and Aquinas. Both attempt to articulate comprehensive causal theories which include an analysis of God's creation of the universe. Despite their distinct cultural and religious milieus, both men describe creating as an action performed by …
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Die Rezeption der Philosophie des Aristoteles im Islam : als Beispiel die Rezeption der Seelenlehre des Aristoteles bei Ibn Sinas Buch ('Ilm al-nafs: Die Wissenschaft der Seele)
… Rezeption der aristotelischen Seelenlehre bei Avicenna. Das Proplem, mit dem sich diese Untersuchung beschäftigt, bezieht sich auf die Frage der Verfälschung der aristotelischen Philosopie ducrh Avicenna. Diese Arbeit versucht zu zeigen, dass Avicenna und und die Neoplatoniker die Seelenlehre …
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The Disagreement between Avicenna and al-Ghazali on the Issue of the Pre-eternity of the Universe, how their Arguments Originated from Greek Philosophers and their Effect on Muslim Philosophers
… one of the three condemnations by al-Ghazali of Avicenna in his widely publicised book ‘Incoherence of the Philosophers’. The paper will focus on one of these three specific issues because it was these topics that were used by al-Ghazali to insinuate that Avicenna had transgressed the boundaries …
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Maʿnā, Shuʿūr and Mental Existence: Avicenna’s Theory of Intentionality
… traced to scholastic philosophers’ reception of Avicenna’s concept of maʿnā. Recently, many scholars have challenged this narrative and, as a result, initiated a debate among Avicennian scholars about whether maʿnā bears any connection to intentionality. My dissertation reconstructs Avicenna’s …
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Avicenna's Commentary on the Poetics of Aristotle: a critical study with an annotated translation of the text
… interpretation or adaptation. The first is by Avicenna, and the second by Averroes.</p> <p>Chronologically and substantially, Avicenna's Commentary has the central place in the Medieval Arabic tradition of the <em>Poetics</em>. In this study, I have tried to achieve two aims. In the first part, …
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Light in the Cave: A Philosophical Enquiry into the Nature of Suhrawardī’s Illuminationist Philosophy
… Persian wisdom; Gutas reads him as a follower of Avicenna (d. 1037); scholars like Ziai and Walbridge argue that he is an original and serious philosopher. But it seems that no reconstructions of Illuminationist philosophy are satisfactory. I propose a Cave Story approach, which relates …
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The Impact of Medieval Debates on the Nature of the Soul on Modern Discussions of Abortion and Euthanasia in Islam
… focus on the work of Al-Farabi (870-950 C.E.), Avicenna (980-1037 C.E.), Al-Ghazali (1058–1111 C.E.), and Averroës (1126-1198 C.E.), who write extensively on the ontology of the human soul. It will focus only on the juridical opinions on abortion and euthanasia published in the fatwas of …
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Hypnosis as an Analgesia in Labor and Delivery
… hand. | A great physician in the tenth century, Avicenna, expounded his view that the imagination of man could act not only on his own body, but even on other and very distant bodies; further, that it could fascinate and modify them, either by making them ill or restoring them to health. | …
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An examination of a Thirteenth-Century Treatise on the Mind/Body Dichotomy: Jean de La Rochelle on the Soul and its Powers
… to the Pseudo-Augustine, John Damascene and Avicenna. It can be seen, however, that despite the connections made between A vicenna and Augustine, a tension emerges, one which was to become much more pronounced when the works of Aristotle, particularly his De anima, were made available to the …
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Avicenna's Philosophy of Mathematics
I discuss four different aspects of Avicenna’s philosophical views on mathematics, as scattered across his various works. I first explore the negative aspect of his ontology of mathematics, which concerns the question of what mathematical objects (i.e., numbers and geometrical shapes) are not. …
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Mourning, Melancholia, and Masculinity in Medieval Literature
… works of the Middle Ages, such as those of Avicenna and Isidore of Seville, which are also consulted in this project. The medieval philosophical and medical traditions are blended with contemporary theories of gender, authenticity, and understanding, as well as an acknowledgement of the …
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Witelonis perspectivae liber quartus Book IV of Witelo's Perspectiva : a critical edition and English translation with introduction, notes and commentary
… theories, such as those of Euclid, Ptolemy, Avicenna and Alhacen. In fact, Witelo’s chief sources in Book IV are Alhacen’s De aspectibus as well as Euclid’s Elements and Optics (Liber de visu). Unfortunately though, this brings up a basic problem with Book IV. As the introduction of this work …
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Effects of pollution on marine crustaceans in Qatari waters : a baseline survey and a case study on genotoxicity indicators in an endemic shrimp
… shrimp, Palaemon khori which inhabits the Avicenna marina mangrove forest at Al-Khor, Qatar. The order of the heavy metal concentrations for the three species was Zn > Cu > As > Fe > Mn > Pb > Cr > Cd > Co > Ni > V for P. pelagicus, Zn > Fe > Cu > As > Cd > Mn > Ni > Cr > V > Pb > Co for B. …
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Al-Rāzī's Philosophy of Mind
… materialism and the philosophers’ (namely Avicenna’s) immaterialism, before constructing his own dualistic theory. The dissertation is therefore set out according to al-Rāzī’s own dialectical schema, whereby I first investigate al-Rāzī’s analysis and critique of the theologians’ …