The Reception of Aristotle's “Metaphysics” in Avicenna's “Kitab al-Sifa'”: Textual and Doctrinal Analysis (2005)
Bertolacci, Amos (Author)
Yale University
Gutas, Dimitri
Edition Details: Advisor: Gutas, Dimitri
Physical Details: 493 pp.
Language: English
Object of the present dissertation is the reception of Aristotle's _ Metaphysics_ in the _Kitb al-Šif', Book of the Cure_, by Avicenna (Ibn Sin, d. 1037 C.E.)---one of the greatest exponents of Arabic philosophy---with particular regard to the section entitled _Ilhiyyt_, [_ Science of_] _Divine Things_. The _Kitb al- Šif'_ is the most important and influential philosophical work of Avicenna and the _Ilhiyyt_ its section dealing with metaphysics. Even though the _Ilhiyyt_ is not a commentary on Aristotle's _Metaphysics_, but rather a personal elaboration by Avicenna, it was intended by its author, just as was the entire _Kitb al-Šif'_, to belong to the Aristotelian tradition; consequently, it contains several texts and doctrines taken from Aristotle's _Metaphysics_. The purpose of the dissertation is to give a general account of the dependence of Avicenna's _ Ilhiyyt_ upon Aristotle's _Metaphysics_. This is accomplished in three ways: by offering an inventory of the passages of the _Metaphysics_ Avicenna selected in order to be used in the _Ilhiyyt_; by classifying the different modes (literal quotations, paraphrases, doctrinal similarities etc.) in which he reproduced these Aristotelian passages, and their various degrees of closeness to the original; and finally, by sketching an overall outline of the new configuration---both textual and doctrinal---Aristotle's _Metaphysics_ assumed in Avicenna's work. The dissertation provides for the first time a detailed analysis of the transmission and reception in the Arab world of Aristotle's most influential work.
...MoreDescription Cited in Diss. Abstr. Int. A 66/03 (2005): 1023. UMI pub. no. 3168858.
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