AKIL RİSALELERİ GELENEĞİ VE BU GELENEK İÇİNDE EBÜ’L-BEREKÂT EL-BAĞDÂDÎ’NİN AKIL RİSALESİ

Year 2010, Volume: 1 Issue: 10, 75 - 106, 15.10.2010

Ferruh Özpilavcı

Abstract

Discussions of Intellect, originating from Aristotle’s De Anima, caused a se
ries of works to come, which can be collected under the title of ‘treatises of in
tellect’ through ‘the expositor’Alexander Afrodisias who handled this issue in
an independent work named De Intellectu. Especially the theory of separate
active intellect which Alexander set forth in his treatise as a producer cause
of human intellect was discussed intensively by many of the commentators
like Themistius and John Philoponus, and had repercussions in the Islamic
world especially in Kindî and Farabî’s treatises of intellect.
One of the most remarkable examples in this tradition of treatises of in
tellect was presented by Abu’l-Barakât al-Baghdâdî, the philosopher with
Jewish origin but converted to Islam and well-known with his considerable
critiques to peripatetic philosophy, in his treatise in which he tried to recon
cile the religious, theological and philosophical views on the intellect in the
light of the verses of Koran and hadith. In this article, the views advanced
on the intellect, the comprehensive subject matter related to several areas
from epistemology to psychology, cosmology to eschatology, and ethics to
prophecy, have been generally discussed on the basis of treatises of intel
lect. In this context, especially Baghdâdî’s views have been examined focus
ing on his treatise ‘Sahîhu edilleti’n-nakl fî mahiyyeti’l-akl (the true religious
arguments on the essential character of intellect)’. His other works have also
been referred in the scope of this article.

Keywords

Intellect, Treatises of Intellect, Abu’l-Barakât al-Baghdâdî, Active Intellect, John Philoponus.

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