Abstract:

Alexander of Aphrodisias is a philosopher and commentator who is a member of Aristotelian school. In the history of philosophy Alexander who is first commentator taking up in detail of Peripatetism was admitted greatly influenced Islamic philosophers as well. In this article it was intended to be adressing the views of metaphysics of Alexander of Aphrodisias. His thoughts related Metaphysics such being, God, mind and immortality were included. However, by being compared Alexander's ideas on the one hand Aristotle's ideas, on the other hand Islamic philosophers’ (Al-Kindî, Al-Fârâbî, Avicenna and Averroes) ideas, it was contacted both the problem of originality of Alexander against Aristotle and Islamic philosophers against Alexander. As Alexander put forward the ideas on issues of metaphysics differently from Aristotle, it was seen that Islamic Philosophers asserted them differently from Alexander.

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