Intuition in the Avicennan tradition

Adamson, Peter und Noble, Michael-Sebastian (2022): Intuition in the Avicennan tradition. In: British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Bd. 31, Nr. 4: S. 657-674

Abstract

Many later thinkers in the Islamic world pick up on, and further expand, the idea of intuition (hads) as they react to Avicenna (Ibn Sina). Focusing on figures from the twelfth-thirteenth century, in this paper we will focus especially on the following points of debate: (1) Avicenna's idea that intuition is distingiushed from normal (discursive) thought by lacking 'motion', (2) The question of how and why different individuals differ in the extent of their intuition, (3) The role of intuitive thought in grounding knowledge: is intuition needed every time a certain item of knowledge is grasped for the first time, and hence without a teacher;and further, is intuition needed as an ultimate justification for all non-intuitive knowledge?

• Dokumententyp: Zeitschriftenartikel
• Fakultät: Philosophie, Wissenschaftstheorie und Religionswissenschaft
• Themengebiete: 100 Philosophie und Psychologie > 100 Philosophie
• ISSN: 0960-8788
• Sprache: Englisch