Alfarabi, Avicenna, and Averroes, on Intellect: Their Cosmologies, Theories of the Active Intellect, and Theories of Human Intellect

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". x, 363pp. Book presents nicely with unclipped dust jacket wrapped in protective archival sleeve. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners and edges of jacket. Bound in blue cloth over boards with spine lettered in white. Gentle bumps to head and tail of spine. Faint dust-spotting to text block. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound.

ABOUT THIS BOOK:
A study of problems, all revolving around the subject of intellect in the philosophies of Alfarabi, Avicenna, and Averroes, this book starts by reviewing discussions in Greek and early (truncated) Arabic philosophy which served as the background for the three Arabic thinkers. Davidson examines the cosmologies and theories of human and active intellect in the three philosophers and covers such subjects as: the emanation of the supernal realm from the First Cause; the emanation of the lower world from the transcendent active intellect; stages of human intellect; illumination of the human intellect by the transcendent active intellect; conjunction of the human intellect with the transcendent active intellect; prophecy; and human immortality. Davidson shows that medieval Jewish philosophers and the Latin Scholastics had differing perceptions of Averroes because they happened to use works belonging to different periods of his philosophic career.(Publisher). (Inventory #: 16758)