“From the One, Only One Proceeds”: The Post-Classical Reception of a Key Principle of Avicenna’s Metaphysics
Abstract The separated intellects play a crucial but notoriously controversial role within the Neoplatonic systems of al-Fārābī and Avicenna. While both thinkers provide an array of proofs to support the existence of such immaterial substances, the most enduring of these is based on a metaphysical r...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Brill
2020
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Oriens
Year: 2020, Volume: 48, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 123-155 |
Further subjects: | B
Emanation
B Avicenna B ṣudūr B intellects B Procession |
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Summary: | Abstract The separated intellects play a crucial but notoriously controversial role within the Neoplatonic systems of al-Fārābī and Avicenna. While both thinkers provide an array of proofs to support the existence of such immaterial substances, the most enduring of these is based on a metaphysical rule of Avicenna’s metaphysics known as the “rule of one” (qāʿidat al-wāḥid): that from the One, only one proceeds (lā yaṣdur ʿan l-wāḥid illā l-wāḥid). The following paper explores the various ways in which Avicenna defended this principle and traces their reception in the post-classical period, thereby showing how vigorously the question of emanation was debated among scholars of the later medieval period. |
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ISSN: | 1877-8372 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Oriens
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/18778372-04801005 |