AvicennaCornell University Press, 2006 - 261 pagina's In this updated edition of his classic work, Lenn E. Goodman provides a concise introduction to the life and thought of Abu Ali al-Husain ibn Abdallah ibn Sina, known as Avicenna, who was born in the year 980 C.E. near Bokhara in what is now Uzbekistan and died 1037 C.E. in Hamadan, now in Iran. |
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LIFE TIMES WRITINGS | 1 |
2 Ibn Sinas Youth | 11 |
3 Wanderjahre | 19 |
4 The Years at Isfahan | 30 |
METAPHYSICS | 49 |
2 Ibn Sina Synthesis | 61 |
3 Criticism and Response | 83 |
IDEAS AND IMMORTALITY | 123 |
3 The Substrate of Immortality | 163 |
LOGIC PERSUASION AND POETRY | 184 |
1 Avicennas Propositional Logic | 188 |
2 Avicenna on the Art of Persuasion | 211 |
3 Avicennas Poetics | 216 |
Glossary | 235 |
Bibliography | 241 |
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