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| Ibn Tufail: Ibn Tufail (1110-1185) was a Muslim philosopher, physician, and novelist from Andalusia (Muslim Spain). He is best known for his philosophical novel Hayy ibn Yaqdhan, which is considered one of the earliest works of science fiction._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Otfried Höffe on Ibn Tufail - Dictionary of Arguments
Höffe I 132 Ibn Tufail/Höffe: Abu Bakr Ibn Tufail (Abubacer, c. 1110-1185), the personal physician of Caliph Abu Yaqub Yusuf (1163-1184), wrote probably the most famous philosophical text in Arabic, a philosophical Robinson novel: From the Living, the Son of the Guard (Hayy ibn Yaqzan), English: The journey of the soul: the story of Hai bin Yaqzan. In contrast to Defoe's adventure novel, however, Ibn Tufail's "Robinson" tells the step-by-step Ascent to language acquisition and finally to true knowledge, even immersion in God. Ernst Bloch: for Bloch the protagonist Hayy was a mixture of Abraham and Kant. Solipsism: [The hero] goes his mental path completely alone. Only by means of his own mind does he learn the most hidden secrets of the sciences, even that there is only one God, who is perfect, omnipotent, omniscient and merciful. Anthropology/Ibn TufailVsal-Farabi: With this self-willed solipsism Höffe I 133 Ibn Tufail contradicts the almost everywhere prevailing anthropology, which is also represented in al-Farabi's excellent state (Chapter 15): Man does not appear, at least spiritually, as a political, not even a social being. _____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Höffe I Otfried Höffe Geschichte des politischen Denkens München 2016 |
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