The Font of Life: Fons Vitae (häftad)
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Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
281
Utgivningsdatum
2014-11-30
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Marquette University Press
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222 x 146 x 19 mm
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476 g
ISBN
9780874622614

The Font of Life: Fons Vitae

av Solomon Ibn Gabirol
Häftad,  Engelska, 2014-11-30
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This volume is a sound translation of the Fons vitae of Solomon ibn Gabirol (born 1021/1022), who was the first Jewish philosopher in Spain. In the Fons vitae, Gabirol argues that there is a sensible and an intelligible world; that everything in the sensible and intelligible world is composed of matter and form; that lower things are an example of higher ones by which they are caused; that the intelligible world is composed of universal intelligence, universal soul, nature, and universal spiritual matter; that the human soul possessed knowledge when it was made but lost it when it was joined to the body and must remember it through sense-experience; that it is good for the soul to turn away from sensible things and pour itself into intelligible ones so that it may realize its final cause of returning to the higher, intellectual world; and that the ultimate source of all beingthe font of lifeis something both one and good, something from which all being flows like water emanates from a spring or like light flows from the sun. These doctrines profoundly influenced medieval Christian thinkers. While Dominicus Gundissalinus (c. 1110 after 1190), William of Auvergne (c. 1190 1249), and Thomas of York (c. 1220 1260) embraced key elements of Gabirols system, Albert the Great (c. 1200 1280) and Thomas Aquinas (1225 1274) sharply criticized Gabirols thought. Because of the Fons vitae, Gabirol is today widely recognized as one of the greatest Jewish Neoplatonists.
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John A. Laumakis is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Illinois College, USA where he teaches courses in the history of Western philosophy. He has published articles on Solomon ibn Gabirol (Avicebron), William of Auvergne, and Thomas Aquinas, and he translated Dominicus Gundissalinus's The Procession of the World (De processione mundi) for Mediaeval Philosophical Texts in Translation (Volume 39).

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