Avicenna Illuminated
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Hanif Amin-Beidokhti
About this book
This study tracks the progress of Suhrawardī’s philosophy focusing on his critique of the axial doctrine of the categories and topics related to it: predication and hylomorphism. While it’s known that he rejected hylomorphism and reduced the categories into five, it’s not known how and in which context he has achieved his positions. This is a philosophical study with an eye on the history of concepts. Each chapter detects the historical development from Aristotle through his commentators to Avicenna and critical Avicennans, and then to Suhrawardī.
Suhrawardī discerns two diverging projects in the Categories: An ontological project of the ten highest genera of being, and a project of predication embodied in Aristotle’s predicative square. He discusses the latter in the Isagoge, whereas the former is discussed and reduced to five (substance, quality, quantity, relation, motion) in metaphysics. He also shifts hylomorphism from metaphysics – its Avicennan locus – to physics. Perhaps for this reason scholars never paid attention to his proper texts for the theory of body and confined themselves with the polemics of Ḥikmat al-išrāq. This is the first study of physics and general metaphysics of al-Talwīḥāt, al-Mašāriʿ, and al-Muqāwamāt.
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Hanif Amin Beidokhti, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU München), Germany.
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Frontmatter
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Acknowledgments
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Contents
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List of Figures and Tables
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Preface
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Chapter One Introduction
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Chapter Two Classifying Suhrawardī’s Works: An Outline
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Chapter Three Suhrawardī, the Categories, and Hylomorphism
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Chapter Four Suhrawardī and the Terminology of Substance and Accident
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Chapter Five A Tension Between “Intellectual Considerations” and the Categories? Some Remarks
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Chapter Six Suhrawardī on Subject, Substrate, and Substance
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Chapter Seven Suhrawardī on Substance and Accident
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Chapter Eight Substantiality and Ranks of Substance
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Chapter Nine Suhrawardī on Hylomorphism: Preliminary Remarks
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Chapter Ten Prime Matter and Body
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Chapter Eleven Quantity and Corporeality: The True Reality of Body and its Relation to Magnitude
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Chapter Twelve Hylomorphism and Body: Concluding Remarks
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Chapter Thirteen Species Forms and Qualities
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Chapter Fourteen The Category of Relative
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Chapter Fifteen A Novel Category: Motion
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Chapter Sixteen Final Words
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Bibliography
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Index of Names
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Index of Subjects
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