A neglected interpretation of Avicenna’s theory of God’s knowledge of particulars

IF 0.5 2区哲学 0 ASIAN STUDIES

ASIAN PHILOSOPHY Pub Date : 2022-01-05 DOI:10.1080/09552367.2022.2004494

Amirhossein Zadyousefi

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Abstract

ABSTRACT It seems Avicenna’s passages regarding God’s knowledge of particulars are susceptible of being given two different types of interpretation. The main difference between these two accounts of his theory concerning God’s knowledge of particulars is that one of them, which I call the Neglected Interpretation, appeals to some metaphysical entities as the proxies of concrete particular objects, which are distinct from God’s essence, to explain God’s knowledge of particulars, while the other type does not. The views of post-Avicennian thinkers like Suhrawardī and Ṭūsī of Avicenna’s account are classifiable under the Neglected Interpretation, as shown by their objections to Avicenna’s theory of God’s knowledge of particulars. This type of interpretation of Avicenna’s theory of God’s knowledge of particulars has been neglected in the secondary English literature on the issue. In this paper, I will present a reconstructed version of this type of interpretation of the Avicennian theory of divine knowledge.

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对阿维森纳关于上帝对细节的知识的理论的一个被忽视的解释

阿维森纳关于上帝对细节的知识的段落似乎容易被给予两种不同的解释。这两种关于上帝对细节的知识的解释的主要区别在于，其中一种，我称之为被忽视的解释，呼吁一些形而上学的实体作为具体的特定对象的代理，这些对象与上帝的本质不同，来解释上帝对细节的知识，而另一种类型则没有。后阿维森纳时代的思想家，如suhraward和Ṭūsī，对阿维森纳的观点可以归类为被忽视的解释，正如他们反对阿维森纳关于上帝对细节的知识的理论所显示的那样。这种对阿维森纳关于上帝的特殊性知识理论的解释在英语二手文献中一直被忽视。在本文中，我将对阿维森纳的神性知识理论的这种类型的解释提出一个重建的版本。

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期刊介绍： Asian Philosophy is an international journal concerned with such philosophical traditions as Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Buddhist and Islamic. The purpose of the journal is to bring these rich and varied traditions to a worldwide academic audience. It publishes articles in the central philosophical areas of metaphysics, philosophy of mind, epistemology, logic, moral and social philosophy, as well as in applied philosophical areas such as aesthetics and jurisprudence. It also publishes articles comparing Eastern and Western philosophical traditions.