“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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Sprache: | Englisch |
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2020
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Oriens
Jahr: 2020, Band: 48, Heft: 1/2, Seiten: 123-155 |
weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Emanation
B Avicenna B ṣudūr B intellects B Procession |
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Zusammenfassung: | 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 |
Enthält: | Enthalten in: Oriens
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/18778372-04801005 |