LEADER 02824nam 2200613 a 450 001 9910817063003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-134-97779-4 010 $a1-134-97780-8 010 $a1-280-55582-3 010 $a9786610555826 010 $a0-203-02662-4 010 $a0-415-24575-3 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203026625 035 $a(CKB)111004366673276 035 $a(EBL)178156 035 $a(OCoLC)826494939 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000108161 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11141630 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000108161 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10017903 035 $a(PQKB)10319117 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC178156 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL178156 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10017165 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL55582 035 $a(OCoLC)45732626 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111004366673276 100 $a19911114d1992 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAvicenna /$fLenn E. Goodman 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aLondon ;$aNew York $cRoutledge$d1992 215 $a1 online resource (254 p.) 225 1 $aArabic thought and culture 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-01929-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; AVICENNA; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; List of abbreviations; 1 LIFE, TIMES, WRITINGS; 1 Setting the Scene; 2 Ibn Si?na?'s Youth and Education; 3 Wanderjahre; 4 The Years at Isfaha?n; 2 METAPHYSICS; 1 Contingency and Necessity; 2 Ibn Si?na?'s Synthesis; 3 Criticism and Response; 3 IDEAS AND IMMORTALITY; 1 The Possibility of Knowledge; 2 The Substance of the Soul; 3 The Substrate of Immortality; 4 LOGIC, PERSUASION, AND POETRY; 1 Avicenna's Propositional Logic; 2 Avicenna on the Art of Persuasion; 3 Avicenna's Poetics; Index 330 $athe philosophers in the West, none, perhaps, is better known by name and less familiar in actual content of his ideas than the medieval Muslim philosopher, physician, minister and naturalist Abu Ali Ibn Sina, known since the days of the scholastics as Avicenna. In this book the author, himself a philosopher, and long known for his studies of Arabic thought, presents a factual account of Avicenna's philosophy. Setting the thinker in the context of his often turbulent times and tracing the roots and influences of Avicenna's ideas, this book offers a factual philosophical portrait. It details 410 0$aArabic thought and culture. 676 $a181/.5 700 $aGoodman$b Lenn Evan$f1944-$0526123 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910817063003321 996 $aAvicenna$94119591 997 $aUNINA