Editorial: Brill
Colección: Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science . Texts and Studies ; 116
Número de páginas: 250 págs. 16.0 x 24.0 cm
Fecha de edición: 21-04-2023
EAN: 9789004506473
ISBN: 978-90-04-50647-3
Precio (sin IVA): 99,00 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 102,96 €
Al-Fārābī and Avicenna are the two most influential authors of the classical period of Arabic philosophy, yet their ethical thought has been largely overlooked by scholars. In this book, Janne Mattila provides the first comprehensive account of the ethics of these important philosophers. The book argues that even if neither of them wrote a major ethical work, their ethical writings form a coherent ethical system, especially when understood in the context of philosophical psychology, cosmology, and metaphysics. The resulting ethical theory is, moreover, not derivative of their classical predecessors in any simple way.