Analytic Islamic Philosophy / / by Anthony Robert Booth
| Analytic Islamic Philosophy / / by Anthony Robert Booth |
| Autore | Booth Anthony Robert |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2017.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XV, 222 p. 3 illus., 2 illus. in color.) |
| Disciplina | 181 |
| Collana | Palgrave Philosophy Today |
| Soggetto topico |
Philosophy
Islam Philosophy, Modern Philosophical Traditions |
| ISBN |
9781137541574
1137541571 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- A Note on Translation, Transliteration, Dates, and References -- Contents -- 1: Islam and Reason -- Introduction -- Islam: The Beginning -- Tawhīd and Reason -- Sunna and Hadith -- The Caliphate -- The Muʿtazilites -- The Hanbalites and Ashʿārites -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- Secondary Sources -- 2: The Greek Legacy -- Introduction -- Plato's Heavens First Epistemology -- The Argument from the Meno -- Objections to the Argument from the Meno -- Socrates Asks Loaded Questions -- The Slave Boy Episode Is Just a Story -- Imperfect Knowledge -- Heavens First Epistemology in the Phaedo -- Plotinus -- The One -- Emanation -- Aristotle and Experience First Epistemology -- Aristotle's Third Man Argument -- Essences -- Function and Matter -- Understanding, Knowledge, and the Four Causes -- Aristotle's De Anima and the Active Intellect -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- Secondary Sources -- 3: Al-Kindi and the Rise of Falsafa -- Introduction -- Al-Kindi: A Short Biography -- Al-Kindi's Evidentialism -- Questions for al-Kindi's Evidentialism -- The Immortality of the Soul and the Role of the Active Intellect in Knowledge -- The Active ("First") Intellect -- The Oneness of God and the Eternity of the World -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- Secondary Sources -- 4: Al-Farabi and Islamic Moderate Evidentialism -- Introduction -- Al-Farabi: A Very Short Biography -- Philosophy Versus Prophecy -- Grammar Versus Logic -- Islamic Moderate Evidentialism -- The Conditions of Certainty -- The Plato-Aristotle Fusion -- Emanation and the Active Intellect -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- Secondary Sources -- 5: Avicenna and the Modality of the World -- Introduction -- Avicenna: A Very Short Biography -- Essence and Existence -- Avicenna on the Active Intellect and Prophesy -- "Re-intuition".
Active Intellect Qua Giver of Forms -- Self-Consciousness and the Flying Man Argument -- On the Identity Between Object and Subject in Perception and Intellection -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- Secondary Sources -- 6: Anti-evidentialism and Al-Ghazali's Attack on Falsafa -- Introduction -- Al-Ghazali: A Very Brief Biography -- The Three Sources and Moderate Anti-Evidentialism -- Sufi Mysticism -- The One -- The Heart -- The Curtain and the Mirror -- The Circle and the Return -- The Fatwa -- The Pre-eternity of the World -- God's Knowledge of Particulars and the Resurrection of Bodies -- Al-Ghazali Against Moderate Evidentialism -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- Secondary Sources -- 7: The Philosophers Strike Back: Averroes and Islamic Philosophy After al-Ghazali -- Introduction -- Averroes: A Very Brief Biography -- The Modality and Pre-eternity of the World Revisited -- The Resurrection of the Flesh and God's Knowledge of Particulars Revisited -- Averroes' Decisive Defence of Islamic Moderate Evidentialism -- Averroeism and the Rise of Islamic Modernism and Neo-Islamic Moderate Evidentialism -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- Secondary Sources -- 8: Islamic Philosophy and Politics -- Introduction -- The Prophet Law-Maker, Allegory and Rhetoric -- Ideology, Propaganda, Colonialism -- Doxastic Normativity, Human Perfection, and the Utopian City-State -- The Imperfect Cities, Democracy and Liberalism -- Extremist Belief -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- Secondary Sources -- Appendix 1: Raphael's The School of Athens (Source: Alamy.com) -- References -- Greek Works Cited -- Aristotle -- Plato -- Plotinus -- Porphyry -- Alexander de Aphrodisias -- Arabic Works Cited (Not in Translation) -- Al-Farabi -- Al-Ghazali -- Arabic Works Cited in English Translation -- Al-Kindi -- Al-Farabi -- Avicenna -- Averroes -- Al-Ghazali. Ibn Taymiyya -- Ibn Tufayl -- Suhrawardi -- Other Primary Sources -- Descartes -- Brentano -- Clifford -- Hume -- James -- Kierkegaard -- Moore -- Nietzsche -- Pascal -- Russell -- Wittgenstein -- Secondary Sources -- Index. |
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| London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017 | ||
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Islamic Philosophy and the Ethics of Belief / / by Anthony Robert Booth
| Islamic Philosophy and the Ethics of Belief / / by Anthony Robert Booth |
| Autore | Booth Anthony Robert |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2016.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Pivot, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (X, 100 p.) |
| Disciplina | 170 |
| Collana | Palgrave Pivot |
| Soggetto topico |
Ethics
Philosophy, Modern Knowledge, Theory of Islam Religion - Philosophy Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics Philosophical Traditions Epistemology Philosophy of Religion |
| ISBN |
9781137557001
1137557001 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1: Falsafa as Ethics of Belief -- 1.1: Knowledge in Islam -- 1.2: The Ethics of Belief in the West -- 1.3: The Ethics of Belief in Islam -- 1.3.1: Imān vs Islam -- 1.3.2: Islamic Evidentialism -- 1.3.3: Moderate Evidentialism -- 1.3.4: Islamic Anti-Evidentialism -- 1.3.5: Moderate Anti-Evidentialism -- 1.4: Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 2: Certainty & Prophecy -- 2.1: The Question of the Epistemic Elite -- 2.2: The Conditions of Certainty -- 2.3: The Active Intellect and the Prophetic Imagination -- 2.4: Moderate Evidentialism vs. Moderate Anti-Evidentialism -- 2.5: Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 3: Prophecy & Politics -- 3.1: Human perfection -- 3.2: The Utopian City State -- 3.3: The Imperfect Cities, Liberalism and Democracy -- 3.4: Conclusion: Towards a Neo-Pyhrronism? -- References. |
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| London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Pivot, , 2016 | ||
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