The Nasirean Ethics (RLE Iran C)Taylor & Francis, 27.04.2012 - 352 Seiten The Nasirean Ethics is the best known ethical digest to be composed in medieval Persia, if not in all mediaeval Islam. It appeared initially in 633/1235 when Tūsī was already a celebrated scholar, scientist, politico-religious propagandist. The work has a special significance as being composed by an outstanding figure at a crucial time in the history he was himself helping to shape: some twenty years later Tūsī was to cross the greatest psychological watershed in Islamic civilization, playing a leading part in the capture of Baghdad and the extinction of the generally acknowledged Caliphate there. In this work the author is primarily concerned with the criteria of human behaviour: first in terms of space and priority allotted, at the individual level, secondly, at the economic level and thirdly at the political level. |
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... body of ideas they nurtured and developed were often of Greek origin, sometimes Indian or Persian, occasionally more or less original within Islam itself or of their own individual evolvement ; but like most Muslims (and, indeed, most ...
... bodies relative to each other and to the lower bodies, and the measurements of their motions and their distances, and this is called Astronomy" (astrologyn3 falls outside this category); fourth comes knowledge of composite relationship ...
... bodies, and the laws of the upper and lower simple elements,23 and this is called the Heavens and the World ;24 (3) ... body, and this is called Psychology.33 The derivatives of Natural Science are likewise many, e.g. Medicine, the ...
... bodies from the standpoint of sickness or health, while for Geometry it is measurement. As for elementary principles, if they be not self-evident, they should be demonstrated in another science on a higher level than the science in ...
... body, which the majority of mankind call 'Man', by means of faculties and organs. Such a substance is not a body, nor is it corporeal, nor is it sensed by any of the senses. At this point, the need to demonstrate certain points arises ...