ERC Starting Grant · 2023
Avicenna Live: The Immediate Context of Avicenna’s Intellectual Formation
Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā, d. 1037) is among the most influential philosophers in history and the most important philosopher of the Islamic tradition. He is described as a Mozart-type Wunderkind, who very early had completed his education and perfected his understanding of reality. Yet, throughout his life, Avicenna was also an eager student of his teachers or himself a dedicated teacher to his students – leading to the key-question of ALIVE: to what extent have Avicenna’s personal relations with his peers influenced the formation and formulation of his own philosophy? Did he reform or reformulate his thoughts in light of his personal interactions? Modern scholarship on Avicenna has often evaded…
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