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Article: Avicenna and essentialism.
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- The Review of Metaphysics
- Article date:
- June 1, 2001
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THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN ESSENCE AND EXISTENCE has been taken to be central to Avicenna's metaphysics and ontology of being. Due to the influence that this distinction had on Thomism, and to a lesser extent on Maimonides's work, some Medievalists and Orientalists took Avicenna's distinction between essence and existence to be characterized by essentialism. A.-M. Goichon's books Lexique de la Langue Philosophique d'Ibn Sina, Vocabulaires Compares d'Aristote et d'Ibn Sina, and La Philosophie d'Avicenne et son Influence en Europe (1) (along with her interpretation of the Avicennian essence/existence distinction) all offer a great contribution to the translation ...
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