Classical Arabic philosophy
Subtitle: an anthology of sources
By: translated with introduction, notes, and glossary by Jon McGinnis and David C. Reisman.
Contributors: McGinnis, Jon.; Reisman, David C.
Publisher: Hackett Pub. Company
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Indianapolis; Cambridge
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780872208711; 9780872208728
Subjects: Philosophy, Islamic
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Falsafa and the arabic translation movement; title: The intellectual world of the ancient and medieval mediterranean; title: The physical theory and cosmology of islamic speculative theology (kalām); title: Al-Kindī: The explanation of the proximate efficient cause for generation and corruption; title: On the intellect; title: On divine unity and the finitude of the world's body; title: The one true and complete agent and the incomplete metaphorical "agent"; title: On the means of dispelling sorrows; title: Ar-Rāzī: The philosopher's way of life; title: On the five eternals; title: Selections from doubts against Galen; title: Al-Fārābī; title: The eisagōgē; the introduction; title: Selections from Book of demonstration; title: On the intellect; title: The aims of Aristotle's Metaphysics; title: The principles of existing things; title: Directing attention to the way to happiness. Baghdad peripatetics: Abū Bishr Mattá: selections from Abū Bishr Mattá's Commentary on Aristotle's Physics, ii 7/9; title: Yaḥyá ibn ʻĀdī: Selection from establishing the nature of the possible; title: Abū Sulaymān as-Sijistānī: selection from on the proper perfection of the human species; title: Ibn Sīnān; title: The Cure, "Book of demonstration," i.9, On induction and methodic experience and what makes it necessary; title: The Cure, "Book of demonstration," iii.5; title: The Cure, "Physics," i.2, enumerating the principles of physics by postulate and thesis; title: Selections on atomism from the Cure, "Physics"; title: Selections on "inclination" (mayl) and projectile motion; title: Selections on psychology from the cure, "the soul"; title: The Salvation, "Metaphysics," i.12; title: The Salvation, "Metaphysics," ii.1/5; title: The Salvation, "Metaphysics," ii.12/13; title: The Salvation, "Metaphysics," ii.18/19; title: The Cure, "Metaphysics," iv.2, on governance; title: Al-Ghazālī: Concerning that on which true demonstration is based; title: The Incoherence of the philosophers, "the first discussion," on refuting their claim of the world's eternity; title: On power; title: Ibn Bajjá: Selection from commentary on Aristotle's "Physics"; title: Conjunction of the intellect with man; title: Ibn Ṭufayl: Selections from Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓān; title: Ibn Rushd: Selections from the Incoherence of the Incoherence, "first discussion"; title: The decisive treatise; title: Commentary on Metaphysics, zeta 9; title: Selections from the long commentary on the soul; title: Commentary on Metaphysics, delta 7; title: As-Suhrawardī: Selections from the philosophy of illumination; title: Glossary / Index; title: Notes; title: Bibliography.