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Avicenna (Ethics (Ready Reference series))

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Avicenna happily acknowledged his debt to Aristotle and al-Fârâbî, but he was also an original thinker. His distinctive ethical concern with the relation between individual beings and Pure Being (which was to become important for Saint Thomas Aquinas, John Duns Scotus, and others) focused on the fate of the soul after bodily death. The...

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