Classical Islamic Philosophy: A Thematic Introduction

ISBN-13: 9781138229471 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 368 str.

Luis Xavier Lopez-Farjeat

Opis

This thematic introduction to classical Islamic philosophy focuses on the most prevalent philosophical debates of the medieval Islamic world and their importance within the history of philosophy.

Spis treści

1. The Context 2. The Configuration of Philosophy in the Islamic milieu: The Translation Movement 3. Theologians and Philosophers on Islamic Revelation 4. Logic, Language and the Classification of the Sciences 5. Philosophy and the Natural Science 6. Metaphysics In the Islamic Philosophical Context 7. Psychology and Theories of Cognition 8. Ethics and Political Philosophy

O autorze

Luis Xavier López-Farjeat is Tenured Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy at Universidad Panamericana, Mexico. He has written on Classical Islamic Philosophy and is co-editor and co-author of the volume Philosophical Psychology in Arabic Thought and the Latin Aristotelianism of the 13th Century (2013) and of The Routledge Companion to Islamic Philosophy (2016). In 2018, he published Razones, argumentos y creencias. Reflexiones a partir de la filosofía islámica. He is associate director of the Aquinas and ‘The Arabs’ International Working Group and editor of Tópicos, Journal of Philosophy.