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1 online resource (286 pages)
ISBN:
9781107248700
Inhalt:
The first full-length treatment of Ibn Gabirol's philosophy in English, providing a new approach to the philosophy of the Fons Vitae.
Inhalt:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Discovering Ibn Gabirol: The Aims and Goals of This Project -- 1.2 Chapter Guide -- 2 Text in Context -- 2.1 First Unfoldings -- 2.2 Background -- 2.3 Desire and Love: Terminological Preamble I -- 2.3.1 Desire as God-Born and God-Directed -- 2.3.2 Desire as Love -- 2.4 From Divine Will to Divine-Irda-as-Desire: Terminological Preamble II -- 2.5 From Prime Matter to Grounding Element: Terminological Preamble III -- 2.5.1 Matter Terminology in Ibn Gabirols Milieu -- 2.5.2 Ibn Gabirols al-'unur al-awwal -- 3 From Human Being to Discourse on Matter? The Threefold Quest for Wisdom, Goodness, and God - and the Root of Life in Desire -- 3.1 The Epistemological, Ethical, and Theological Context -- 3.1.1 The Epistemological Call -- 3.1.2 The Ethico-Theological Call -- 3.2 Metaphysics of Matter and Desire at the Core of All -- 3.3 Positive Valuations of Matter: A Reversal of Intuitions -- 4 Root Desire and the Pseudo-Empedoclean Grounding Element as Love -- 4.1 Desire at the Core of Being -- 4.2 Love Makes the World Go Round: Some Greek and Arabic Sources -- 4.2.1 Aristotle -- 4.2.2 The Theology of Aristotle -- 4.2.3 Avicennas "Rislah fi'l-'ishq" -- 4.2.4 Islamic and Jewish Neoplatonized Aristotelianism -- 4.3 A Pseudo-Empedoclean Love Story: Unspecified Being, Matter over Form, and the Kernel of Desire -- 4.4 In the Illuminating Shadow: Ibn Gabirols Pseudo-Empedoclean Revision of the Neoplatonic Return -- 5 From Divine Will to Divine Irda: On the Mistaken Scholarly Rejection of Ibn Gabirols Emanationism -- 5.0 "Divine Will" and the Mistaken Scholarly Rejection of Ibn Gabirols Emanationism -- 5.1 Trying to Make Sense of Scholarship on Ibn Gabirols So-Called Anti-Emanation Voluntarism: The Rejection of Divine Emanation in a Limited Emanation Framework?.
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ISBN 9781107032217
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781107032217
Sprache:
Englisch
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