Subject, Definition, Activity Framing Avicenna's Science of the Soul

Subject, Definition, Activity Framing Avicenna's Science of the Soul

This book offers for the first time a comprehensive study of the reception and reworking of the Peripatetic theory of the soul in the Kitāb al-Nafs (Book of the Soul) by Avicenna (d. 1037). This study seeks to frame Avicenna's science of the soul (or psychology) by focusing on three key concep...

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Main Author: Alpina, Tommaso
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; Boston De Gruyter, [2021]
Series:Scientia Graeco-Arabica ; v. 28.
Subjects:
Avicenna, > 980-1037. > Kitāb fī al-nafs ʻalá sunnat al-ikhtiṣār.
Psychology > Early works to 1850.
Soul > Early works to 1800.
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > Ancient & Classical.
Psychology.
Soul.
EBSCO eBooks
Academic theses.
Electronic books.
Early works.
Online Access:EBSCOhost
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One Avicenna's Kitāb al-Nafs: Nature, Content, Sources
  • Chapter Two The Science of the Soul: An Attempt at Contextualization
  • Chapter Three Subject: Psychologia generalis vs. psychologia specialis
  • Chapter Four Definition: An Attempt at Unification
  • Chapter Five Activity: A Clue to the Twofold Nature of the Human Soul
  • Chapter Six Avicenna's Psychology: A Diachronic Perspective
  • Conclusion, or Explaining Avicenna by Way of Avicenna
  • Appendix Translation of Avicenna's Kitāb al-Nafs
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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