On Avicennian Reception of Aristotle's Categories (ch. V-VII)
Abstract
The article is the second 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 is based on the immanent study of the source. The study highlights Avicenna's revision of Aristotelian doctrine of the first three categories - the substance, the quantity and the relation. The authors highlight the intention of Ibn Sina to supply the Aristotelian teaching on categories with a more scientific (apodictic) form and to synthesize harmoniously rather different and not always consistent expositions of the ten categories as explained in the Categories and Metaphysics by Aristotle. Special attention is paid to the efforts Ibn Sina made to “ontologize” the Aristotelian categories, namely not only the proof of the existence of each of them, but also the establishment of its substantiality or accidentality.
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 the Institute of Philosophy of RAS.
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.
Moscow.
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Efremova N.V., Ibrahim T. On Avicennian Reception of Aristotle's Categories (ch. V-VII). Orientalistica. 2020;3(3):733-764. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.31696/2618-7043-2020-3-3-733-764
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