On Intellectual Intention of Falsafa’s Felicitology
https://doi.org/10.22311/2074-1529-2024-20-3-93-110
Abstract
This publication is intended to be a kind of introduction to the author’s planned translation of a fragment about the comprehension of the separated by the unseparated from the treatise “Long Commentary on Aristotle’s “De anima” written by Ibn Rushd (lat. Averroes; d. 1198). In Falsafa (Muslim peripateticism), the problem of cognition of immaterial substances (especially God and cosmic intellects) by the material, human intellect is of fundamental importance not only for Falsafa’s epistemology, but also for its felicitology, in which the highest happiness of the soul is seen precisely in its conjunction with the intelligible world. The article highlights the relevant aspects of the philosophical psychology of Muslim peripateticism, the foundations of which were laid by al-Farabi (d. 950) and Ibn Sina (lat. Avicenna; d. 1037): cosmology and angelology; the structure of the soul and the architectonics of the intellect; the rational- philosophical justification of intellectual happiness- unhappiness, especially in the afterlife; eschatological optimism — the thesis on the possibility of posthumous spiritual progress and of the final salvation of the majority of the souls.
About the Author
N. V. Efremova
Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Natalia V. Efremova, Cand. Sci. (Philos.), senior research fellow, Center for Arab and Islamic Studies
12 Rozhdestvenka Str., Moscow, 107031
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Efremova N.V. On Intellectual Intention of Falsafa’s Felicitology. Islam in the modern world. 2024;20(3):93-110. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.22311/2074-1529-2024-20-3-93-110
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