The Arabic Plotinus : a philosophical study of the "Theology of Aristotle"
Peter Adamson
Bok · Engelsk · 2017
| Utgitt | Gorgias Press , 2017
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| Omfang | XVI, 240 s.
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| Opplysninger | 1. Arabic Plotinus Texts and their Origin -- 1.1. Arabic Plotinus corpus -- 1.2. origins of AP --1.3. Other texts related to AP -- 2. Prologue and the "Headings" -- 2.1. Prologue -- 2.2. "Headings" -- 3. Psychology and Ethics -- 3.1. Aristotelian influence on the Adaptor's theory of soul - -3.2. Ethical views in AP -- 4. Language and Epistemology -- 4.1. Strategies of predication -- 4.2. Learned ignorance -- 5. Theology and Metaphysics -- 5.1. Divine predication -- 5.2. God and being -- 5.3. Creation -- 5.4. Adaptor's sources -- Conclusion: The Outlook and Identity of the Adaptor -- App.: Al-Kindi and the Arabic Plotinus -- App. 1: Al-Kindi's method and the unity of his corpus -- App. 2: Metaphysics and theology -- App. 3: Psychology -- App. 4: Astrology -- App. 5: Conclusion.. - The Arabic Plotinus was the most important source for Neoplatonic ideas in the Arabic world. Falsely attributed to Aristotle and known as the 'Theology of Aristotle', the Arabic version of Plotinus' Enneads was influential on Muslim philosophers from al-Kindi to Avicenna and beyond. This book is a study of the philosophical transformation undergone by the works of Plotinus when they were rendered into Arabic as the 'Theology'. The translator's approach to Plotinus was creative and historically decisive: he tried to make Neoplatonism compatible with the religions of Christianity and Islam, and to assimilate Plotinus to the thought of the genuine Aristotle." "This is the first book-length study of the text, devoted to understanding the ideas and motivations of the translator who helped to determine how philosophers for centuries thereafter would confront Greek thought.
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| Emner | neoplatonisme filosofi
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| ISBN | 978-1-4632-0718-2
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