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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... follow in view of my thesis, in paragraph A above, that the work has long suffered a grave injustice by being treated as three roughly joined entities, of which only a chapter or so of the third had any real importance. At the same time ...
... follows. (In the case of) every existent being that is (one of two situations arises): either its existence can be consequent on another existent being, other than itself, which existent being is independent in itself, e.g. blackness ...
... follows. Moreover, as on each side it is in contact with a different thing, it is divisible into parts. Now since a body is a compound, 'corporeal', which is predicated of it and received by it,75 is also a compound, for division of the ...
... follows: it knows itself and knows that it knows itself; and it may not be that its knowing itself should be by an organ, intervening between it and its essence. Once again, the reason is that what perceives by an organ cannot perceive ...
... follows: every existent being that persists108 is liable to extinction,1°9 persistence being in act within it, and extinction in potency. This being so, the receptacle81 of persistence in act must be other than the receptacle of ...