خرید و دانلود نسخه کامل کتاب Oneness, Essence, and Self-Identity: A New Interpretation of Avicenna’s Henology

In  how many ways can things be said to be one, how is oneness itself to be  defined, and what is its relation to essence and existence? This book  engages with these core questions by examining the works of Avicenna (d.  1037 CE), who is widely regarded as the most important philosopher of  the Arabic tradition. In this monograph – the first that is exclusively  devoted to Avicenna’s henology and to Arabic henology in general – the  author analyzes the place and meaning of oneness in Avicenna’s general  metaphysics and theology and devotes particular attention to how this  notion relates to Avicenna’s theory of quiddity. He contextualizes  Avicenna’s doctrines in light of three major intellectual currents  (ancient Greek philosophy, early Arabic philosophy, and Islamic theology  or kalām) and also offers the first detailed analysis of oneness in the  Bahshamite tradition. The book challenges the prevailing interpretation  of Avicenna’s henology and adduces new textual evidence to show that  Avicenna developed an innovative theory of oneness that expresses the  essential reality and self-identity of a thing. This foundational sense  of oneness is applied to all the pure quiddities and, in an eminent and  prior way, to God.