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Avicenna's Physics is the very first volume that he wrote when he began his monumental encyclopedia of science and philosophy, TheHealing. Avicenna's reasons for beginning with Physics are numerous: it offers up the principles needed to understand such special natural sciences as psychology; it sets up many of the problems that take center stage in his Metaphysics; and it provides concrete examples of many of the abstract analytical tools that he would develop later in Logic.

While Avicenna's Physics roughly follows the thought of Aristotle's Physics, with its emphasis on natural causes, the nature of motion, and the conditions necessary for motion, the work is hardly derivative. It represents arguably the most brilliant mind of late antiquity grappling with and rethinking the entire tradition of natural philosophy inherited from the Greeks as well as the physical thought of Muslim speculative theologians. As such, Physics is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding Avicenna's complete philosophical system, the history of science, or the history of ideas.

Avicenna's Physics is the very first volume that he wrote when he began his monumental encyclopedia of science and philosophy, TheHealing. Avicenna's reasons for beginning with Physics are numerous: it offers up the principles needed to understand such special natural sciences as psychology; it sets up many of the problems that take center stage in his Metaphysics; and it provides concrete examples of many of the abstract analytical tools that he would develop later in Logic.

While Avicenna's Physics roughly follows the thought of Aristotle's Physics, with its emphasis on natural causes, the nature of motion, and the conditions necessary for motion, the work is hardly derivative. It represents arguably the most brilliant mind of late antiquity grappling with and rethinking the entire tradition of natural philosophy inherited from the Greeks as well as the physical thought of Muslim speculative theologians. As such, Physics is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding Avicenna's complete philosophical system, the history of science, or the history of ideas.
Über den Autor

Jon McGinnis is associate professor of classical and medieval philosophy at the University of Missouri, St. Louis.

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Genre: Importe, Philosophie
Jahrhundert: Deutscher Idealismus
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Reihe: Brigham Young University - Islamic Translation Series
Inhalt: Einband - fest (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780842527477
ISBN-10: 0842527478
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Avicenna
Übersetzung: McGinnis, Jon
Hersteller: Brigham Young University Press
Brigham Young University - Islamic Translation Series
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 241 x 169 x 95 mm
Von/Mit: Avicenna
Erscheinungsdatum: 15.05.2010
Gewicht: 2,281 kg
Artikel-ID: 121214187

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