From the being as primum cognitum to the multivoca in the Avicenna Latinus. A commentary on Philosophia Prima I,5.

Abstract

Avicenna’s Philosophia prima (I,5) is the primary source for the idea of the being (ens) as the first thing conceived by the intellect. He also develops de idea of the multivoca of the being, i.e., the notions which share the status of first notions conceived by the intellect. They are identified with the being (ens) by extension, but they also bring along another type of comprehension. This article presents the main ideas developed by Avicenna in the text, in order to let the reader know one of the chief sources of the transcendental thought of Latin Scholastic