Avicenna

Avicenna

Avicenna, 980-1037

Lenn E. Goodman

Ithaca : Cornell University

1: LIFE, TIMES, WRITINGS: Setting the scene -- Ibn Sina's youth and education -- Wanderjahre -- The years at Isfahan -- 2: METAPHYSICS: Contingency and necessity -- Ibn Sina's synthesis -- Criticism and response -- 3: IDEAS AND IMMORTALITY: The possibility of knowledge -- The substance of the soul -- The substrate of immortality -- 4: LOGIC, PERSUASION, AND POETRY: Avicenna's prepositional logic -- Avicenna on the art of persuasion -- Avicenna's poetics -- Glossary.

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