Alfarabi, Avicenna, and Averroes, on Intellect: Their Cosmologies, Theories of the Active Intellect, and Theories of Human Intellect

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A study of problems, all revolving around the subject of intellect in the philosophies of Alfarabi, Avicenna, and Averroes, this book starts by reviewing discussions in Greek and early Arabic philosophy which served as the background for the three Arabic thinkers. Davidson examines the cosmologies and theories of human and active intellect in the three philosophers and covers such subjects as: the emanation of the supernal realm from the First Cause; the emanation of the lower world from the transcendent active intellect; stages of human intellect; illumination of the human intellect by the transcendent active intellect; conjunction of the human intellect with the transcendent active intellect; prophecy; and human immortality. Davidson shows that medieval Jewish philosophers and the Latin Scholastics had differing perceptions of Averroes because they happened to use works belonging to different periods of his philosophic career. Contents......Page p0009.djvu 1. Introduction......Page p0013.djvu 2. Greek and Arabic Antecedents......Page p0017.djvu Stages of Human Intellect......Page p0019.djvu The Kind of Entity That the Active Intellect Is......Page p0023.djvu The Active Intellect as a Cause of Human Thought......Page p0028.djvu The Active Intellect as a Cause of Existence......Page p0039.djvu Conjunction with the Active Intellect; Immortality......Page p0044.djvu Al-Maīda al-Fādila and al-Siyāsa al-Madaniyya......Page p0054.djvu Alfarabi's Philosophy of Aristotle......Page p0073.djvu The Risāla fi al-'Aql......Page p0075.djvu Alfarabi's Commentary on the Nicomachean Ethics......Page p0080.djvu Concluding Note......Page p0083.djvu The Emanation of the Universe; the Active Intellect as a Cause of the Existence of the Sublunar World......Page p0084.djvu Stages of Human Intellect; the Active Intellect as the Cause of Human Thought......Page p0093.djvu Imagination, Cogitation, Insight......Page p0105.djvu Conjunction and Immortality......Page p0113.djvu Prophecy......Page p0126.djvu Summary......Page p0134.djvu Avicenna's Islamic Successors......Page p0137.djvu Reverberations in Medieval Jewish Philosophy......Page p0190.djvu Reverberations in Scholastic Philosophy......Page p0219.djvu Summary......Page p0228.djvu General Considerations......Page p0230.djvu The Emanation of the Universe......Page p0233.djvu The Active Intellect as a Cause of Existence: Epitomes of the Parva naturalia and the Metaphysics......Page p0242.djvu The Active Intellect as a Cause of Existence: The Commentary on De generatione animalium......Page p0252.djvu The Active Intellect as a Cause of Existence: The Long Commentary on the Metaphysics and Tahāfut al-Tahāfut (Destructio destructionum)......Page p0255.djvu Summary......Page p0264.djvu Introduction......Page p0268.djvu The Epitome of the De anima and the Epistle on the Possibility of Conjunction......Page p0275.djvu A Minor Composition on Conjunction and the Middle Commentary on the De anima......Page p0284.djvu Averroes' Long Commentary on the De anima and his Commentary on Alexander's De intellectu......Page p0292.djvu Summary......Page p0305.djvu Averroes' Theories of Material Intellect as Reflected in Subsequent Jewish and Christian Thought......Page p0308.djvu The Passage of the Human Intellect to Actuality......Page p0325.djvu The Possibility of Conjunction with the Active Intellect; Immortality......Page p0331.djvu Prophecy......Page p0350.djvu Averroes' Shifting Picture of the Universe and of Man's Place in It......Page p0361.djvu A......Page p0367.djvu D......Page p0369.djvu I......Page p0370.djvu P......Page p0371.djvu V......Page p0372.djvu Z......Page p0373.djvu