“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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Main Author: Amin, Wahid M. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2020
In: 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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