Jari Kaukua

Self-Awareness in Islamic Philosophy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book investigates the emergence and development of a distinct concept of self-awareness in pre-modern Islamic philosophy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 543g
• ISBN-13: 9781107088795
• ISBN-10: 1107088798
• Artikelnr.: 41607272

Autorenporträt

Jari Kaukua is Academy of Finland Research Fellow in the Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy at the University of Jyväskylä. He is the author of several articles in journals including Vivarium and History and Theory. This is his first book.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; 1. Preliminary observations: self-cognition and Avicennian psychology; 2. Avicenna and the phenomenon of self-awareness: the experiential basis of the flying man; 3. Self-awareness as existence: Avicenna on the individuality of an incorporeal substance; 4. In the first person: Avicenna's concept of self-awareness reconstructed; 5. Self-awareness without substance: from Ab
al-Barak
t al-Baghd
d
to Suhraward
; 6. Self-awareness, presence, appearance: the ishr
q
context; 7. Mull
Sadr
on self-awareness; 8. The self reconsidered: Sadrian revisions to the Avicennian concept; Conclusion: who is the I?; Appendix: Arabic terminology related to self-awareness; Bibliography; Index.