Studies on Early Arabic Philosophy

Informationen zum Autor Peter Adamson is Professor for Late Antique and Arabic Philosophy at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität! Germany. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis RECEPTION OF GREEK PHILOSOPHY, I Arabic philosophy and theology before Avicenna II Aristotle in the Arabic commentary tradition III The last philosophers of late antiquity in the Arabic tradition GALEN AND AL-RAZI IV Galen and al-Razi on time V Galen on void VI Platonic pleasures in Epicurus and al-RazT VII Abu Bakr al-Razi on animals THE BAGHDAD SCHOOL VIII The Arabic sea battle: al-Farabi on the problem of future contingents IX Knowledge of universals and particulars in the Baghdad school X Yal;iya ibn 'AdI and Averroes on Metaphysics Alpha Elatton XI On knowledge of particulars XII Avicenna and his commentators on human and divine self-intellection XIII From the necessary existent to God

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Peter Adamson
• Verlag: ASHGATE PUB CO
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 28.05.2015
• EAN: 9781472420268
• ISBN: 978-1-4724-2026-8
• Seiten: 340
• Serien: Variorum Collected Studies; Variorum Collected Studies Series; Variorum Collected Studies
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Philosophie > Sonstiges; PHILOSOPHY / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies, Islamic & Arabic philosophy, Islamic and Arab philosophy