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The Eudaimonist Ethics of Al-farabi and Avicenna (Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies, 116) by Janne Mattila is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Now available in Open Access thanks to the support of the University of Helsinki. 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. The book will appeal to those with interest in Arabic/Islamic philosophy, Islamic intellectual history, classical philosophy, and the history of moral philosophy.

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Author

Janne Mattila

Publisher

Brill Academic Pub

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9789004506473

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Islam, Humanities