Jari Kaukua. Self-Awareness in Islamic Philosophy: Avicenna and Beyond

Avicenna on Self-Awareness and Knowing that One Knows

It is a commonplace in the history of philosophy that issues surrounding selfawareness, consciousness, and self-knowledge do not become prominent until the early modern period. For medieval philosophers, particularly those in the Aristotelian tradition, the nature of self-knowledge plays only an ancillary role in psychology and epistemology. This is a natural consequence of Aristotle’s characte...

awareness in Avicenna , Suhrawardi and Mulla sadra A synoptic account

Ethical Description of God in Avicenna`s Philosophy

Some descriptions such as necessity, power and life have been used in philosophy to introduce God, but in religious holy texts such as Quran some descriptions such as justice, forgiveness, kindness, and faithfulness are mentioned which are known as ethical descriptions in human conventional language. Some people have undermined the possibility of ethical description of God by attributing ethics...

گزارش بررسی و نقد کتاب knowledge in later islamic philosophy بر اساس آراء حکمت متعالیه

رساله ی حاضر ترجمه و شرح کتابknowledge in later islamic philosophy نوشته ی ابراهیم کالین می باشد. که در آن مسأله معرفت از دیدگاه ملاصدرا مورد بررسی قرار گرفته است. فلسفه ی صدرا ، فلسفه ای با محوریت وجود است. وجود در فلسفه ی صدرا نقش اساسی و محوری به عهده دارد و سایر مسائل فلسفی حول محور وجود می چرخد. از جمله مسائل فلسفی، معرفت شناسی است که در آن صدرا معرفت را نحوه ای از وجود و کیفیتی از کیفیت ه...

Essays on Islamic philosophy and science

health rules are reminiscent of the Regimen sanitatis Salerni. Some of the material was borrowed, such as proverbs from Dryden, Pope, La Rochefoucauld and Rabelais. Franklin continually added and revised, and some of his statements found their way into common American parlance. The last number (1758) contained a series of adages entitled 'The way to wealth' and this appeared even in Chinese, Ru...