Alfarabi, Avicenna, and Averroes, on intellect : their cosmologies, theories of the active intellect, and theories of human intellect
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Alfarabi, Avicenna, and Averroes, on intellect : their cosmologies, theories of the active intellect, and theories of human intellect
Oxford University Press, 1992
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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The distinction between the potential intellect and the active intellect was first drawn by Aristotle. Medieval Islamic, Jewish, Christian philosophers, and European philosophers in the sixteenth century considered it a possible key to deciphering the nature of man and the universe. In this book, Herbert Davidson examines the treatment of intellect in Alfarabi (d. 950), Avicenna (980-1037) and Averroes (1126-1198), with particular attention to the way in which they
addressed the tangle of issues that grew up around the active intellect.
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