256 Pages
by Routledge

255 Pages
by Routledge

the philosophers in the West, none, perhaps, is better known by name and less familiar in actual content of his ideas than the medieval Muslim philosopher, physician, minister and naturalist Abu Ali Ibn Sina, known since the days of the scholastics as Avicenna. In this book the author, himself a philosopher, and long known for his studies of Arabic thought, presents a factual account of... Read more
Chapter 1 LIFE, TIMES, WRITINGS; Chapter 2 METAPHYSICS; Chapter 3 IDEAS AND IMMORTALITY; Chapter 4 LOGIC, PERSUASION, AND POETRY;

Biography

L. E. Goodman is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hawaii.