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The Figures of the Self in Avicenna
Culture · Tuesday, December 1 · 19:00 · Paris France
L'Institut du Monde Arabe, 1 rue des Fossés-Saint-Bernard
Free
A thousand years after Avicenna's Kitab al-Shifa’ (The Book of Healing) was published, Falsafa — the Arabic philosophy series at IMA — dedicates its 2026-2027 season to this monumental work. Logic, physics, mathematics, metaphysics: from talk to talk, the session will explore the diverse aspects of one of the most ambitious and influential texts in history... Through the famous thought experiment of the flying man, Avicenna not only offered a precursor to Cartesian cogito but also sketched a theory of the subject linking biology, psychology, metaphysics, cosmology, religious revelation and po…
