On Avicennian Reception of Aristotle’s Categories: (ch. I–IV)
Abstract
The article is the first part of a study regarding the problem of the re-edition of Aristotle’s Categories in the work “The Healing” (ash-Shifā’) by the greatest philosopher of classical Islam, Ibn Sina (Avicenna; d. 1037). It shows the ways and approaches by Avicenna to revisit the epistemological status of the Categories, as well as his approach to “ontologize” and “delogicisize” the problems of categories. Also, the authors provide an analysis of how Avicenna re-worked the Aristotelian prologue (chapters 1–4), sometimes is referred to as the Pre-Predicamenta. The analysis includes as follows: semantics of various types of words, four-fold division (“ontological square”), ten-fold division and its justification.
About the Authors
N. V. Efremova
Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Natalia V. Efremova, Cand. Sci. (Philos.), Senior Research Fellow at the Division of oriental philosophies of theInstitute ofPhilosophy of RAS, an Editorial board Member of the Periodical Minbar. Islamic Studies (Russian Federation).
Moscow
T. Ibrahim
Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Tawfik Ibrahim, Dr. Sci. (Philos.), Professor, the Centre of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Institite of Oriental Studies of RAS, the Researcher-in-Chief, Deputy Head Chairman of the Higher Ex-amining Body (Section Theology) at the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation, Advi-sor to the Periodical Minbar. Islamic Studies (Russian Federation).
Moscow
References
1. Ibn-Sīnā. Ash-Shifа’: al-Mantiq: 1) al-Madkhal. Cairo: Wizārat al-ma‘ārif al-‘umūmiyya; 1952. (In Arabic)
2. Gutas D. Avicenna and the Aristotelian Tradition. Leiden & Boston: Brill; 2014.
3. Efremova N.V. On Avicennian Reform of Aristotle’s Metaphysics: basic attitudes. Orientalistica. 2019;2(3):615–633. (In Russ.) DOI: 10.31696/2618-7043-2019-2-3-615-633.
4. al-Kindī. On the Number of Aristotle’s Books. In: Medieval Arab-Muslim philosophy in A.V. Sagadeev’s translations. Moscow: Marjani; 2009. Vol. 1, pp. 31–43. (In Russ.)
5. Ighbariah A. Between Logic and Mathematics: Al-Kindı’s Approach to the Aristotelian Categories. Arabic Sciences and Philosophy. 2012;22(1):51–68. DOI:10.1017/S0957423911000099.
6. al-Fārābī. What Must Precede the Study of Philosophy. In: al-Fārābī. Philosophical treatises. Alma-Ata: Nauka; 1972, pp. 1–14. (In Russ.)
7. Ibn-at-Tayyib. Tafsīr kitāb Isāgūjī li-Furfūryūs. Beirut: Dār al-mashriq; 1975.(In Arabic)
8. Ibn-Sīnā. Ash-Shifа’: al-Ilāhiyyāt. Cairo: Wizārat ath-thaqāfa wa-l-irshād al-qawmī; 1960. Vols. 1–2. (In Arabic)
9. Bertolacci A. The ‘Ontologization’ Of Logic. Metaphysical Themes In: Avicenna’s Reworking Of The Organon. In: Cameron M., Marenbon J. (eds). Methods and Methodologies: Aristotelian logic East and West, 500–1500. Leiden: Brill; 2011, pp. 27–51.
10. Ibn-Sīnā. Ash-Shifā’:al-Mantiq: 2) al-Maqūlāt. Cairo: Wizārat ath-thaqāfa wa-l-irshād al-qawmī; 1959. (In Arabic)
11. [Ibn-Khaldūn]. Muqaddimat Ibn-Khaldūn. Beirut: Dār al-fikr; 2001. (In Arabic)
12. Aristotle. Categories. In: Aristotle. Writings in four volumes. Moscow: Mysl;1978. Vol. 2, pp. 53–90. (In Russ.)
13. Bäck A. Avicenna the commentator. In: Newton L. (ed.). Medieval Commentaries on Aristotle’s Categories. Leiden: Brill; 2008, pp. 31–71.
14. Ibn-Sīnā. Al-Mubāhathāt. Qom: Bidar; 1992. (In Arabic)
15. Treiger A. Avicenna’s Notion of Transcendental Modulation of Existence (taškīk al-wuǧūd) and its Greek and Arabic Sources. In: Opwis F., Reisman D. C. (eds.). Islamic Philosophy, Science, Culture, and Religion. Studies in Honor of Dimitri Gutas. Leiden: Brill; 2012, pp. 327–363.
16. De Libera A. Les sources gréco-arabes de la théorie médiévale de l’analogie de l’être. Les Études Philosophiques. 1989;3–4:319–345.
17. Kalbarczyk A. Predication and Ontology: Studies and Texts on Avicennian and Post-Avicennian Readings of Aristotle’s ‘Categories’. Berlin: De Gruyter; 2018.
18. Angelelli I. Accidents III: The Ontological Square. In: Burkhardt H., Smith B. (eds.). Handbook of Metaphysics and Ontology. Munich: Philosophia Verlag; 1991. Vol. 1, pp. 2–13.
19. Bäck A. Aristotle’s Theory of Predication. Leiden: Brill; 2000.
20. McPartland K. E. Predication And Ontology In Aristotle’s Organon (a dissertation). Cornell University; 2009.
21. Crivelli P. Being-said-of in Aristotle’s Categories. Rivista di Filosofia NeoScolastica. 2017;3:531–556.
22. al-Fārābī. Commentaries on Aristotle’s “Categgries”. In: Medieval Arab-Muslim philosophy in A. V. Sagadeev’s translations. Moscow: Marjani; 2009. Vol. 1, pp. 117–149. (In Russ.)
23. Ibn-at-Tayyib. Ash-Sharh al-kabir li-Maqulat Aristu. Damascus: Dār a-takwīn;2010. (In Arabic)
24. Aristotle. Topics. In: Aristotle. Writings in four volumes. Moscow: Mysl; 1978. Vol. 2, pp. 255–531. (In Russ.)
25. Aristotle. Posterior Analytics. In: Aristotle. Writings in four volumes. Moscow: Mysl; 1978. Vol. 2, pp. 255–531. (In Russ.)
26. Aristotle. Physics. In: Aristotle. Writings in four volumes. Moscow: Mysl; 1981. Vol. 3, pp. 59–262. (In Russ.)
27. Aristotle. Metaphysics. In: Aristotle. Writings in four volumes. Moscow: Mysl; 1976. Vol. 1, pp. 63–367. (In Russ.)
28. Aristotle. De Anima. In: Aristotle. Writings in four volumes. Moscow: Mysl; 1976. Vol. 1, pp. 369–448. (In Russ.)
29. Ibn-Sīnā. Ash-Shifа’: at-Tabī’iyyāt: 1) ac-Camā‘ at-tabī‘ī. Cairo: al-Hay’a al-‘āmma al-misriyya li-l-kitāb; 1983. (In Arabic)
30. as-Suhrawardī. At-Talwīhāt. In: as-Suhrawardī. Al-Mu’allafāt al-falsafiyya wa-ssūfiyya. Beirut-Baghdad: al-Jamal; 2012, pp. 7–111. (In Arabic)
31. as-Suhrawardī. Al-Mashāri‘ wa-l-mutārahāt. In: as-Suhrawardī. Al-Mu’allafāt al-falsafiyya wa-s-sūfiyya. Beirut-Baghdad: al-Jamal; 2012, pp. 177–430. (In Arabic)
32. Amin Beidokhti H. Suhrawardī on Division of Aristotelian Categories. In: Al Ghouz A. (ed.). Islamic Philosophy from the 12th to the 14th Century. Goettingen: V&R unipress, Bonn University Press; 2018, pp. 377–408.
33. ash-Shīrāzī, Sadraddīn. Al-Hikma al-muta‘āliya. Beirut: Dār ihyā’ at-turāth al-‘arabī; 1990. Vol. 4. (In Arabic)
34. as-Sāwī, Ibn-Sahlān. Al-Basā’ir an-nasīriyya. Beirut: Dār al-fikr al-lubnānī;1993. (In Arabic)
35. Thom P. The division of the categories according to Avicenna. In: Alwishah A., Hayes J. (eds.). Aristotle and the Arabic Tradition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 2015, pp. 30–49.
36. Ibn-Sīnā. The Healing (excerpts). In: Ibrahim T. K., Efremova N. V. (eds) Islamic philosophy (Falsafa): An Anthology. Kazan: Spiritual Directorate of Muslims of the Republic of Tatarstan; 2009:309–456. (In Russ.)
37. Ibn-Sīnā. At-Ta‘līqāt. Qom: Markaz-i intishārāt daftar-i tablīghāt-i islāmī;1379/[2000]. (In Arabic)
For citation:
Efremova N.V., Ibrahim T. On Avicennian Reception of Aristotle’s Categories: (ch. I–IV). Orientalistica. 2020;3(2):403-427. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.31696/2618-7043-2020-3-2-403-427
Views: 513
Email this article 