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Subject, Definition, Activity : Framing Avicenna's Science of the Soul / Tommaso Alpina.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Scientia Graeco-Arabica ; 28Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (XII, 266 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110706550
  • 9783110706956
  • 9783110706840
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 181/.5 23
LOC classification:
  • B751.K53 A47 2021
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter One Avicenna’s Kitāb al-Nafs: Nature, Content, Sources -- Chapter Two The Science of the Soul: An Attempt at Contextualization -- Chapter Three Subject: Psychologia generalis vs. psychologia specialis -- Chapter Four Definition: An Attempt at Unification -- Chapter Five Activity: A Clue to the Twofold Nature of the Human Soul -- Chapter Six Avicenna’s Psychology: A Diachronic Perspective -- Conclusion, or Explaining Avicenna by Way of Avicenna -- Appendix Translation of Avicenna’s Kitāb al-Nafs -- Bibliography -- Index
Dissertation note: Dissertation Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa 2016. Summary: 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).

Dissertation Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa 2016.

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter One Avicenna’s Kitāb al-Nafs: Nature, Content, Sources -- Chapter Two The Science of the Soul: An Attempt at Contextualization -- Chapter Three Subject: Psychologia generalis vs. psychologia specialis -- Chapter Four Definition: An Attempt at Unification -- Chapter Five Activity: A Clue to the Twofold Nature of the Human Soul -- Chapter Six Avicenna’s Psychology: A Diachronic Perspective -- Conclusion, or Explaining Avicenna by Way of Avicenna -- Appendix Translation of Avicenna’s Kitāb al-Nafs -- Bibliography -- Index

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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).

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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