Jari Kaukua (Finland University of Jyvaskyla)

Self-Awareness in Islamic Philosophy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides an extended analysis of human selfhood and self-awareness in Avicenna and two of the most important post-classical Islamic philosophers, Suhrawardi and Mulla Sadra. It is of interest to readers in the history of philosophy, intellectual history, selfhood studies, Islamic studies, history of ideas and philosophy of mind.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 398g
• ISBN-13: 9781107460805
• ISBN-10: 1107460808
• Artikelnr.: 50448106

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.