Whether God knows the Individuals – Negative Reception or Avicenna’s „Mistake“?
Whether God knows the Individuals – Negative Reception or Avicenna’s „Mistake“?

Summary/Abstract: The famous Avicenna researcher and specialist Verbeke claims in his text, entitled “Avicenna – founder of a new metaphysics” that against the metaphysics of Ibn Sina generally there were no objections, as far as it doesn’t confront any institutional resistance in the Latin West. This fact allows him to conclude that as far as the Latin reception is concerned Avicenna appears to be the founder of a new, up till then undeveloped in the West metaphysics, which because of its specificshas an effect of a certain response or an echo in the western Christian mentality. None of Avicenna’s concepts or propositions was officiallycondemned, which allows his intensive reading and presents him as philosophical authority (auctoritas). It wouldn’t fully mean his whole doctrine was adopted without reservation, but nevertheless gives the author the right to conclude that in contrast to a Christian, but explicitly condemned author as Eriugena, the legitimate presence of Avicenna distinguishes an unrestricted perspective for a new metaphysics project in the West.

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