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Avicenna (Arabic Thought and Culture) ReviewI am reviewing this book as a rank amateur in philosophy. I got curious about Avicenna when he was prominently mentioned in Varghese's The Wonder of the World: A Journey from Modern Science to the Mind of God. According to Varghese, Avicenna was one of the extremely important philosophers who helped to create "The Matrix" --- which is what enabled modern science to take off. Varghese's list includes Avicenna, Maimonides, Aquinas, and Madhvacharya (an Indian philosopher I had never heard of!)
So I ordered this book with some trepidation, afraid of some totally dry treatise which would bore me to tears, and I got the very opposite: an extremely well-written summary of Avicenna which answers any and all questions I had about this philosopher, universally considered the greatest thinker produced by Islam. I particularly enjoyed the details of the local Persian history in Khorasan, which seems to resemble the American Wild West in a lot of ways. But then, I've lived in Iran and have a natural interest in the place. (Avicenna, by the way, was a Persian who wrote in Arabic.) The summaries of Avicenna's books are clear --- magnificently clear, if I may say so.
A good companion to this book might be The Closing of the Muslim Mind.
Highest recommendation for this book!Avicenna (Arabic Thought and Culture) OverviewOf all 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 philosoper, physician, princely minister and naturalist Abu Ali Ibn Sina, known since the days of the scholastics as Avicenna. In this lucid and witty book L.E. Goodman, himself a philosopher, and long known for his studies of Arabic thought, presents a factual, pithy and engaging account of Avicenna's philosophy. Setting the thinker in the context of his often turbulent times and tracing the roots and influences of Avicenna's ideas,Goodman offers a factual and credible philosophical portrait of one of the world's greatest metaphysicians. This books details Avicenna's account of being as a synthesis between the seemingly irreconcilable extremes of Aristotelian eternalism and the creationism of monotheistic scripture. It examines Avicenna's distinctive theory of knowledge, his ideas about immortality and individuality, including the famous Floating Man argument, his contributions to logic, and his probing thoughts on rhetoric and poetics.Taking advantage of the latest scholarship, Goodman's book is more than a philosophic appreciation. In every section it considers the abiding value of Avicenna's contributions, assaying his thought againstthe responses of his contemporaries and successors but alsoagainst our current philosophical undertanding

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