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'Language and Being in al-Farabi' is a monograph devoted to the philosophy of language and metaphysics of Abu Nasr al-Farabi (d. 950), a medieval Aristotelian, and Islamic philosopher. Asking questions concerning the relationship between language, meaning, and being, Ansari explores the history of Greek philosophy in Arabic, and its development into the early modern Islamic context.
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Lis of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Citation, Translation, and Transliteration -- Introduction: Exploring the Philosophy of Language and Metaphysics -- From Aristotle's Pros Hen Homonymy to Fārābī's Amphibolous Terms -- Essentialism -- Fārābī, the Greek Sources, and the Islamicate Context -- Structure of the Book -- 1 Reassessing the History of a Philosophical Concept -- The Amphibolous Predication of 'Being' -- The Translation of Taškīk: Competing Options
Amphibolous Predication in the Philosophy of Fārābī -- The Book of Letters and the Unity of Fārābī's Metaphysics -- Conclusion -- 2 Language, Intelligibles, and Being -- The Tripartite Relationship Between Language, Intelligibles, and Being -- Primary and Secondary Intelligibles -- Detachment and Composition -- Derived Terms and Primary Examples -- The Noetic and Ontological Priority -- The Ontological Status of Intelligibles -- Conclusion -- 3 The Theory of Amphibolous Predication -- Homonymy in Aristotle and Porphyry -- Fārābī's Theory of Amphibolous Terms
The Relations Between the Meanings of Amphibolous Terms -- Modulated Univocals -- Amphibolous Terms and Transcategorials -- The Designation 'Amphibolous' and the Question of Greek Origins -- 'Amphibolous' Terms in the Arabic and Islamic Context -- Conclusion -- 4 The Theory of What Is (al-Mawǧūd) -- Conceptual Vocabulary in Greek, Arabic, and English -- To On, Esti, and Al-Mawǧūd -- Essential Predication -- Being, Not Existing -- Al-wuǧūd -- The Baghdad Aristotelians and the Impact of the Graeco-Arabic Translators -- 5 The Amphibolous Predication of 'Being' -- 'Being' as an Amphibolous Term
The Primary Predication of 'Being' -- Reconciling the Two Perspectives: Realization of Quiddity -- What Is Best Known to Us and What Is Best Known By Nature -- Conclusion -- 6 Emanation and the Ranking of Beings -- Essentialism -- Emanation -- The Derivation of Being-Ness From Being -- Being-ness: Differentia, Quiddity, and Subsistence -- Being Simpliciter and Detached Theology -- Emanation Revisited -- Substantification -- The Meaning and Function of Emanationist Language -- Alexander of Aphrodisias and Efficient Causality -- The Stakes -- Conclusion -- 7 The Refutation of Parmenides
Parmenidean Monism -- Fārābī's Knowledge of Parmenides -- Fārābī's Refutation of Parmenides -- Amphibolous Predication, Monism, and the Loss of Meaning -- Conclusion -- 8 The Fārābian Legacy of Amphibolous Predication in the Post-Classical Period -- Amphibolous Predication in Avicenna -- Taškīk as 'Amphiboly': The Fārābian Legacy in the Twelfth to Thirteenth Centuries -- Amphibolous Predication and the Relationship Between Logic and Metaphysics in the Twelfth to Fifteenth Centuries -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index of Names and Select Works -- Index of Concepts
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
History of philosophy, philosophical traditions