Reason Unbound: On Spiritual Practice in Islamic Peripatetic Philosophy

Reason Unbound......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
Acknowledgments......Page 9
Introduction. Islamic Philosophy and the Crisis of Modern Rationalism......Page 11
1. Beyond Orientalism and Academic Rationalism: A Critique of the Standard Readings of Islamic Philosophy......Page 17
1.1. Philosophy as Practice of Spiritual Exercises......Page 18
1.2. Standard Readings of Islamic Philosophy......Page 21
2. To the Things Themselves: Corbin and Heidegger on Phenomenological Access......Page 31
2.1. Phenomenology According to Henry Corbin......Page 33
2.2. Heidegger’s Phenomenology......Page 34
2.3. Two Contemporary Approaches to Heidegger’s Phenomenolog......Page 38
2.4. Back to Corbin......Page 45
3. From the Things Themselves to Prophecy: Philosophical Cultivation in Islamic Peripateticism......Page 49
3.1. The Ethical Foundations of Islamic Philosophy......Page 50
3.2. Alfarabi’s Appropriation of Islamic Ethics......Page 52
3.3. Alfarabi’s Philosophical Appropriation of Islamic Prophetology......Page 55
3.4. The Reception of the Notion of Active Intellect in the Islamic Philosophical Tradition......Page 59
3.5. Alfarabi on Religion and Politics......Page 62
3.6. Avicenna on Philosophical Felicity......Page 63
3.7. Avicenna on Intellectual Prophecy......Page 70
4.1. Prophetic Imagination......Page 75
4.2. The Beautiful and the Sublime......Page 81
4.3. After Kant......Page 82
4.4. Avicenna on the Poetic Cultivation of Imagination......Page 85
5. The Theologian’s Dream Imagination and Intellectual Heresy......Page 91
5.1. Ghazali on Dreams......Page 92
5.2. Ghazali and Avicenna on the Interpretation of Prophetic Symbols......Page 96
5.3. Ghazali’s Charge of Heresy Against Islamic Peripatetics and Averroes’ Reply......Page 99
6. On Human Finitude,Conscience, and Exemplarity: A Comparison betweenIslamic Peripateticism and Heideggerian Phenomenology......Page 105
6.1. Being-Towards-Beyond-Death: On the Immortality of the Soul in Islamic Peripateticism......Page 106
6.2. Conscience and the Active Intellect......Page 115
6.3. Paradigms of Emulation: Divine Exemplars and Existential Heroes......Page 118
1. Islamic Peripateticism and the Predicament of Modern Western Philosophy......Page 121
2. Peripateticism in Later Islamic Philosophy......Page 123
Notes......Page 133
Bibliography......Page 167
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