Description: Title: Subject, Definition, Activity: Framing Avicenna's Science of the Soul Author: Alpina, Tommaso Publisher: de Gruyter Binding: Paperback Pages: 278 Dimensions: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.59d Product Weight: 0.99 lbs. Language: English ISBN: 9783111109244 This book offers for the first time a comprehensive study of the reception and reworking of the Peripatetic theory of the soul in the Kitāb al-Nafs (Book of the Soul) by Avicenna (d. 1037). This study seeks to frame Avicenna's science of the soul (or psychology) by focusing on three key concepts: subject, definition, and activity. The examination of these concepts will disclose the twofold consideration of the soul in Avicenna's psychology. Besides the 'general approach' to the soul of sublunary living beings, which is the formal principle of the body, Avicenna's psychology also exhibits a 'specific orientation' towards the soul in itself, i.e. the human rational soul that, considered in isolation from the body, is a self-subsistent substance, identical with the theoretical intellect and capable of surviving severance from the body. These two investigations demonstrate the coexistence in Avicenna's psychology of a more specific and less physical science (psychologia specialis) within a more general and overall physical one (psychologia generalis). Ships Fast From The USA! Authorized Dealer
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Book Title: de Gruyter
Number of Pages: 278 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Subject, Definition, Activity : Framing Avicenna's Science of the Soul
Publisher: DE Gruyter Gmbh, Walter
Publication Year: 2022
Subject: Ancient / General, History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, General, Ancient & Classical
Item Weight: 23.1 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Philosophy, History
Author: Tommaso Alpina
Item Length: 9.4 in
Series: Scientia Graeco-Arabica Ser.
Item Width: 6.7 in
Format: Trade Paperback