Abū'l-Barakāt Al-Baghdādī's Metaphysical Philosophy: The Kitāb Al-Mu'tabar

ISBN-13: 9780367877170 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 388 str.

Moshe Pavlov

Opis

Abū’l-Barakāt is a philosopher who wrote the Kitāb al-Mu‘tabar, a comprehensive metaphysics which challenged the accepted notions of the traditional metaphysical philosophy. This book examines the philosophical conceptions of the first book of the Metaphysics of the Kitāb al-Mu‘tabar. It prese

Spis treści

1. An Introduction to Abu'l-Barakat's Metaphysical Philosophy Part I The Theory of the Existent interacting with Existence 2. Interacting notions of the external world 3. The relationship of the existent to existence 4. The nature of knowledge and the mental existents 5. The metaphysical attributes and the principle of origination Part II The spiritual realm and the first knower conceived by means of the third cognition 6. The theoretical nature of the metaphysical ipseitical cognition 7. The implementation of the pracitcal philosophy of the first knower 8. Interpretations of Abu'l Barakat's Metaphysical Philosophy 9. The conception of God of the Metaphysics

O autorze

Moshe M. Pavlov studied philosophy at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, taking his B.A. and M.A. in philosophy and his doctorate in Jewish Philosophy.