Islamic philosophy · Peripatetic falsafa · c. 980 – 1037
Avicenna
Distinguish what a thing is from the fact that it exists.
Bukhara · Hamadan · Isfahan
Reading guides
A thread to guide your reading.
Original introductions to enter the works, discover their central questions and take the reflection further.
A place to begin
Essence, existence and the Necessary
Follow how the Book of Healing separates what a thing is from its existence and climbs from possible beings to a single Necessary Existent.
The Book of HealingGoing further
Medicine as a science
Examine how the Canon defines medicine, orders knowledge of the body from principles to particular cases, and sets rules for testing remedies.
The Canon of MedicineGoing further
The way of the knowers
Read the late and allusive Remarks and Admonitions, from its proof of the Necessary Existent to its portrait of the knowers and their joy.
Remarks and AdmonitionsContinue
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- Kindred questions