The History of Philosophy in IslamBoer, T. J. de (Tjitze J.)
Islamic
The History of Philosophy in Islam
Boer, T. J. de (Tjitze J.)
Islamic philosophy -- History
[15] Cf. my Article “On Kindi and his School” in Stein’s ‘Archiv für
Geschichte der Philosophie XIII’, p. 153 sqq., from which I have taken
over, without much alteration, not a little that appears in this
chapter.
[16] [Translator’s note.—The Bagdad Caliphate lasted up to the death of
Mustassim (A.H. 656 or A.D. 1258), i.e. for 400 Mohammedan years
after A.H. 256 or A.D. 870].
[17] The Arabic ʻaql (νοῦς) is usually translated by Reason and
Intelligence (Lat. intellectus and intelligentia). I prefer however the
rendering, Geist, Spirit or Mind, because the expression includes God
and the pure (separate) spirits of the spheres. Moreover it is hard to
decide how far the personification of Reason was carried by individual
thinkers.
[18] [Translator’s note.—Accordingly Ibn Sina’s Five Internal Senses
are: A. The General or Co-ordinating Sense; 2. Memory of the Collective
sense-images; 3. Unconscious Apperception, referring to individuals; 4.
Conscious Apperception, with generalization; 5. Memory of the higher
apperceptions].
[19] “Averrois, che’l gran comento feo” Canto IV.
[20] Ibn Khaldûn speaks only of rich people who have grown poor, and
says nothing of the misery of the proletariate, and that which prevails
in large cities, as we know it. He lived too in smaller cities, for the
most part, and till late in life admired Cairo from a distance.
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