“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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Language: | English |
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Brill
2020
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Oriens
Year: 2020, Volume: 48, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 123-155 |
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Emanation
B Avicenna B ṣudūr B intellects B Procession |
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