Yahya İbn 'Adi'nin metafizik görüşleri
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2007
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Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü
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While Yahya İbn `Adi, the student of Farabi who was one of the Islamic philosophers, was a Assyrian/Yaqubi thinker, he was also an important philosopher of Tenth Century Islamic Thought. In our study we compiled the metaphysical ideas that were collocated disorderly and desultory in his works and analyzed them. In the first chapter of our research, the existence views of our philosopher were considered. Since he did not give place to the ?compulsory existence? thought of Islamic philosophers in his own metaphysical interpretations, İbn `Adi approached the issue of ?One? differently from Islamic philosophers. Although he has got close to definitional monism in his existence views, in reality he exposed a pluralist approach. This proves that he was rather a sensationalist philosopher. In the second chapter of the study, Ibn `Adi?s understanding of God was investigated. In this issue it is seen that our philosopher was a follower of Farabi who was conceiving to compromise religion and philosophy as a basic principle. It has been showed up that he approached to this issue not as a theologian, once being claimed, rather as a philosopher. The attempt of giving an ontological meaning to the qualities of God like bounty, power and wisdom earned originality to his thoughts.In the third chapter, it is examined how İbn `Adi approached the issues of trinity and incarnation which are the important problems of Christian metaphysics. Ibn `Adi explained these thoughts with many analogies. Especially in the issue of incarnation, in his longstanding discussions with Nestorians, his effort to rationalize this thought has been found interesting. However, despite of all his effort, he could not prevent these thoughts from being considered as riddle. At the end of these analyses, it is found that our philosopher has also developed a fideist attitude. In the final chapter of the study, how Ibn `Adi approached the issue of creation is examined. In this issue it is found that our philosopher, different from Aristoteles and Islamic philosophers explaining creation with südur, accepted creating from non-existence. It was showed up that in this issue İbn `Adi also exposed a fideist approach as a result of that his mind was not clear at the point of creation and God-universe. In conclusion, it is emphasized that İbn `Adi should be regarded as a philosopher who has emerged in the most splendid period of Islamic philosophy, attempted to philosophize the Christian/Süryani thought and largely been successful in this attempt.
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Yahya İbn Adi, metafizik