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Author : Peter Adamson
Publisher : Bristol Classical Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Arabic Plotinus written by Peter Adamson and published by Bristol Classical Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Marketing Blurb
Author : Peter Adamson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000942449
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)
Download or read book Studies on Plotinus and al-Kindi written by Peter Adamson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book collects 15 papers on the greatest philosopher of late antiquity and founder of Neoplatonism, Plotinus (d.270), and the founding figure of philosophy in the Islamic world: al-Kindī (d. ca. 873). A number of the contributions focus on the text that joins the two: the so-called Theology of Aristotle, in fact an Arabic version of Plotinus’ Enneads produced in al- Kindī’s translation circle. Across several papers, Adamson argues that this translation is best understood as a reinterpretation of Plotinus designed to appeal to contemporary readers in the culture of the ’AbbÄsid era. Two contributions also analyze the notes on the Theology written by the great Avicenna. Other papers look at aspects of al-Kindī’s own thought, exploring his ideas concerning metaphysics, free will astrology, and optics. The traditions of Plotinus and al-Kindī are also treated, with papers on Plotinus’ student Porphyry and his Arabic reception, and on followers of al-Kindī. Adamson argues that we can identify what he calls a 'Kindian tradition' in the 9th-10th centuries. He discusses the philosophical presuppositions of this movement, and the use of al-Kindī’s ideas made by one particular representative of the Kindian tradition, the Persian thinker Miskawayh.
Author : Brill
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004121355
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)
Download or read book Oriens , Volume 36 Volume 36 written by Brill and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2001-06-01 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 36 of Oriens is a priceless collection of articles for Franz Rosenthal by a great number of his many friends, colleagues and former students.With contributions by Franz Rosenthal, Hans Hinrich Biesterfeldt (Bochum), Joshua Blau (Jerusalem), Gerhard Böwering (New Haven, Conn.), C.E. Bosworth (Manchester), Heribert Busse (Mühlheim am Main), Christina D'Ancona (Padua), Gerhard Endress (Bochum), Josef van Ess (Tübingen), Wolfdietrich Fischer (Erlangen), Alfred Ivry (New York), Remke Kruk (Leiden), Michael Lecker (Jerusalem), Stefan Leder (Halle), John O'Kane (Amsterdam), Lutz Richter-Bernburg (Tübingen), Uri Rubin (Tel Aviv), Gotthard Strohmaier (Berlin).
Author : Bethany Somma
Publisher : Studies in Platonism, Neoplato
ISBN 13 : 9789004460836
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)
Download or read book Models of Desire in Graeco-Arabic Philosophy written by Bethany Somma and published by Studies in Platonism, Neoplato. This book was released on 2021 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study argues that late ancient Greek and medieval Islamic philosophers interpret human desire along two frameworks in reaction to Aristotle's philosophy. The investigation of the model dichotomy unfolds historically from the philosophy of Plotinus through the Graeco-Arabic translation movement in 8th-10th century Baghdad to 12th century al-Andalus with the philosophy of Ibn Bagga and Ibn Tufayl. 0Diverging on desire's inherent or non-inherent relation to the desiring subject, the two models reveal that the desire's role can orient opposed accounts of human perfection: logically-structured demonstrative knowledge versus an ineffable witnessing of the truth. Understanding desire along these models, philosophers incorporated supra-rational aspects into philosophical accounts of the human being.
Author : Lloyd P. Gerson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139825259
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Plotinus written by Lloyd P. Gerson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-08-13 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each volume of this series of companions to major philosophers contains specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars, together with a substantial bibliography, and will serve as a reference work for students and non-specialists. One aim of the series is to dispel the intimidation such readers often feel when faced with the work of a difficult and challenging thinker. Plotinus was the greatest philosopher in the 700-year period between Aristotle and Augustine. He thought of himself as a disciple of Plato, but in his efforts to defend Platonism against Aristotelians, Stoics, and others, he actually produced a reinvigorated version of Platonism that later came to be known as 'Neoplatonism'. In this volume, sixteen leading scholars introduce and explain the many facets of Plotinus' complex system. They place Plotinus in the history of ancient philosophy while showing that he was a founder of medieval philosophy.
Author : Peter Adamson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000940284
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)
Download or read book Studies on Early Arabic Philosophy written by Peter Adamson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-04-21 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophy in the Islamic world from the 9th to 11th centuries was characterized by an engagement with Greek philosophical works in Arabic translation. This volume collects papers on both the Greek philosophers in their new Arabic guise, and on reactions to the translation movement in the period leading up to Avicenna. In a first section, Adamson provides general studies of the ’formative’ period of philosophy in the Islamic world, discussing the Arabic reception of Aristotle and of his commentators. He also argues that this formative period was characterized not just by the use of Hellenic materials, but also by a productive exchange of ideas between Greek-inspired ’philosophy (falsafa)’ and Islamic theology (kalÄm). A second section considers the underappreciated philosophical impact of Galen, using Arabic sources to understand Galen himself, and exploring the thought of the doctor and philosopher al-RÄzī, who drew on Galen as a chief inspiration. A third section looks at al-FÄrÄbī and the so-called ’Baghdad school’ of the 10th century, examining their reaction to Aristotle’s Metaphysics, his epistemology, and his famous deterministic ’sea battle’ argument. A final group of papers is devoted to Avicenna’s philosophy, which marks the beginning of a new era of philosophy in the Islamic world.
Author : Peter Adamson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190292776
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)
Download or read book Al-Kindi written by Peter Adamson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-12-22 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Al-Kindi was the first philosopher of the Islamic world. He lived in Iraq and studied in Baghdad, where he became attached to the caliphal court. In due course he would become an important figure at court: a tutor to the caliph's son, and a central figure in the translation movement of the ninth century, which rendered much of Greek philosophy, science, and medicine into Arabic. Al-Kindi's wide-ranging intellectual interests included not only philosophy but also music, astronomy, mathematics, and medicine. Through deep engagement with Greek tradition al-Kindi developed original theories on key issues in the philosophy of religion, metaphysics, physical science, and ethics. He is especially known for his arguments against the world's eternity, and his innovative use of Greek ideas to explore the idea of God's unity and transcendence. Despite al-Kindi's historical and philosophical importance no book has presented a complete, in-depth look at his thought until now. In this accessible introduction to al-Kindi's works, Peter Adamson surveys what is known of his life and examines his method and his attitude towards the Greek tradition, as well as his subtle relationship with the Muslim intellectual culture of his day. Above all the book focuses on explaining and evaluating the ideas found in al-Kindi's wide-ranging philosophical corpus, including works devoted to science and mathematics. Throughout, Adamson writes in language that is both serious and engaging, academic and approachable. This book will be of interest to experts in the field, but it requires no knowledge of Greek or Arabic, and is also aimed at non-experts who are simply interested in one of the greatest of Islamic philosophers.
Author : Peter Adamson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198040071
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)
Download or read book Al-Kindi written by Peter Adamson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-12-22 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Al-Kindi was the first philosopher of the Islamic world. He lived in Iraq and studied in Baghdad, where he became attached to the caliphal court. In due course he would become an important figure at court: a tutor to the caliph's son, and a central figure in the translation movement of the ninth century, which rendered much of Greek philosophy, science, and medicine into Arabic. Al-Kindi's wide-ranging intellectual interests included not only philosophy but also music, astronomy, mathematics, and medicine. Through deep engagement with Greek tradition al-Kindi developed original theories on key issues in the philosophy of religion, metaphysics, physical science, and ethics. He is especially known for his arguments against the world's eternity, and his innovative use of Greek ideas to explore the idea of God's unity and transcendence. Despite al-Kindi's historical and philosophical importance no book has presented a complete, in-depth look at his thought until now. In this accessible introduction to al-Kindi's works, Peter Adamson surveys what is known of his life and examines his method and his attitude towards the Greek tradition, as well as his subtle relationship with the Muslim intellectual culture of his day. Above all the book focuses on explaining and evaluating the ideas found in al-Kindi's wide-ranging philosophical corpus, including works devoted to science and mathematics. Throughout, Adamson writes in language that is both serious and engaging, academic and approachable. This book will be of interest to experts in the field, but it requires no knowledge of Greek or Arabic, and is also aimed at non-experts who are simply interested in one of the greatest of Islamic philosophers.
Author : Richard M. Frank
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9789042917781
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)
Download or read book Arabic Theology, Arabic Philosophy written by Richard M. Frank and published by Peeters Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the course of his career, Professor Richard M. Frank of the Catholic University of America produced a hugely significant corpus of works on the intellectual activity in Classical Islam known as Kalam, which he argued should be rendered as 'speculative theology'. He also wrote on the Qur'an, on the Arabic and Syriac philosophical tradition, and argued vigorously for a new reading of the famous religious scholar and theologian al-Ghazali (d. 1111) as a devotee of the cosmology of Ibn Sina (d. 1037). In this volume, fourteen scholars, many of them contemporaries of Professor Frank, engage with his legacy with important and seminal works which take some of his ideas as their points of departure. The book is divided into six sections: the Qur'an, Paths to al-Ash'ari, Al-Ash'ari and the Kalam, Christian Falsafa, Avicenna and Beyond, and Al-Ghazali on Causality. There are major articles on Qur'anic emendations and Arabia and Late Antiquity, on the Arabic Plotinian Tradition, on Syriac Philosophical Vocabulary, and an important reading of the Greek-Arabic translation movement in terms of the practical and exact sciences. There are seminal studies of atomism, with valuable translations of complex theological passages previously untranslated, of the Christian philosophy of Yahya ibn 'Adi, of a late Mu'tazili argument for the existence of God and a hitherto unedited section on optics by Ibn Mattawayh. These are complemented by important, close readings of Avicenna's epistemology and his Metaphysics together with a major, new survey of the Avicennan tradition in the madrasas of the Islamic East. The volume ends with two discussions of the perennial question of al-Ghazali's theory of causality. In addition, the volume contains an autobiographical piece by Professor Frank and a complete bibliography of his published works.
Author : Bethany Somma
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789004460843
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)
Download or read book Models of Desire in Graeco-Arabic Philosophy written by Bethany Somma and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Desire and Its Models -- 1 Methodology -- 2 The Two Models and the Human Goal -- 3 Structure and Scope -- 1 An Inherent Model of Desire: Plotinus on Desire for the Good -- 1 Terminology of Desire -- 2 Desire in the General Structure of Reality -- 3 Desire in Intellect -- 4 Desire in Soul -- 5 Desire in Judgments and Action -- 6 What Does It Mean to Desire the Good? -- 7 Being Good-Like -- 8 Becoming like the Good -- 9 Formless Desire -- 2 The Plotiniana Arabica and Desire's Discontents -- 1 Desire in Intellect -- 2 Soul's Desire of Intellect -- 3 Soul and Body's Desire -- 4 Assimilation and the Ethical Implications of Soul's Procession -- 5 Virtue and the Return -- 6 Avicenna on the Theology of Aristotle -- 3 Aristotle and al-Fārābī on Desire -- 1 Aristotle on Desire -- 2 Al-Fārābī on Desire -- 3 Al-Fārābī on Aristotle on Desire -- 4 Models of Desire in Aristotle and al-Fārābī -- 4 Ibn Bāǧǧa on Desire and Conceptualization -- 1 Desire in the Soul -- 2 Desire in the Human Being -- 3 Striving Soul and the Body -- 4 Ibn Bāǧǧa on al-Ġazalī and the Sufis -- 5 Human Excellence and Desire -- 5 Ibn Ṭufayl: Situating Ḥayy Ibn Yaqẓān -- 1 The Purpose and Methodology of the Text -- 2 Ibn Ṭufayl on His Influences -- 3 Origins and Orientation -- 6 The Desire Inherent to Ibn Ṭufayl's Ḥayy Ibn Yaqẓān -- 1 Ḥayy's Desire -- 2 Ibn Ṭufayl's Interpretation of Avicenna and al-Ġazālī on Desire -- 3 Appetite and Dissection -- 4 Holistic Goal of Ḥayy's Education -- 5 Subject of Education, Subject of Desire -- Conclusion: Modelling the Study -- 1 Drawing the Boundaries of the Book -- 2 Ibn Bāǧǧa and Ibn Ṭufayl: Modelling Good Desire -- Bibliography -- Index.
