Imagination in the Theology of Aristotle

Journal of the History of Philosophy 57 (2):181-204 (2019)
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Abstract

philosophers of the islamic world have made extremely important contributions to understanding the imagination. Aristotle's account of phantasia in the De anima is, of course, at the heart of much of Islamic philosophical work on the imagination. Furthermore, certain elements of Islamic religious belief were crucial in shaping Islamic philosophers' interest in the imagination. However, in addition to these two obvious sources for Islamic philosophical thought concerning the imagination, there is an important Neoplatonic source in the 'Arabic Plotinus,' above all in the pseudonymous Theology of Aristotle.1...

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