The Arabic, Hebrew and Latin Reception of Avicenna's Metaphysics (eBook)

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Dag Nikolaus Hasse, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany; Amos Bertolacci, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Italy.

Preface 6
Introduction 10
Al-Lawkaril’s Reception of Ibn Sina’s Ilahiyyat 16
Essence and Existence in the Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Islamic East (Mašrig): A Sketch 36
Farabi in the Reception of Avicenna’s Metaphysics: Averroes against Avicenna on Being and Unity 60
Avicenna and his Commentators on Human and Divine Self-Intellection 106
Essence and Existence. Thirteenth-Century Perspectives in Arabic-Islamic Philosophy and Theology 132
Avicenna’s Metaphysics in the Medieval Hebrew Philosophical Tradition 162
‘Happy is he whose children are boys’: Abraham Ibn Daud and Avicenna on Evil 168
Possible Hebrew Quotations of the Metaphysical Section of Avicenna’s Oriental Philosophy and Their Historical Meaning 186
On the Latin Reception of Avicenna’s Metaphysics before Albertus Magnus : An Attempt at Periodization 206
Avicenna’s ‘Giver of Forms’ in Latin Philosophy, Especially in the Works of Albertus Magnus 234
Avicenna and Aquinas on Form and Generation 260
Immateriality and Separation in Avicenna and Thomas Aquinas 284
Two Senses of ‘Common’. Avicenna’s Doctrine of Essence and Aquinas’s View on Individuation 318
On the Latin Reception of Avicenna’s Theory of Individuation 348
Scotus and Avicenna on What it is to Be a Thing 374
Index of Avicenna’s Works with Passages Cited 398
Index of Names 404