In Essentialität und Notwendigkeit: Avicenna und die Aristotelische Tradition stellt Fedor Benevich Avicennas (gest. 1037) Theorie der Essenz und der wissenschaftlichen Bestimmung essentieller und notwendiger Attribute in einem historischen Kontext der aristotelischen Tradition. In Essentialität und Notwendigkeit: Avicenna und die Aristotelische Tradition Fedor Benevich presents Avicenna’s (d. 1037) theory of essence and the scientific determination of essential and necessary attributes in its historical context of the Aristotelian tradition.

This is the first in a series of sourcebooks charting the reception of Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā, d.1037) in the Islamic East (from Syria to central Asia) in the 12th-13th centuries CE. Avicenna was the dominant philosophical authority in this period, who provoked generations of thinkers to subtle critique, defense, and development of his ideas. The series will translate and analyze hundreds of passages from works by such figures as al-Ghazālī, al-Suhrawardī, Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī, Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, and many more. This volume focuses especially on issues in metaphysics, dealing...