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Author: Genequand
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-08-04
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9004453164
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is an edition of the Arabic versions of Alexander of Aphrodisias 'Treatise on the Principles of the Universe, with English translation, introduction and commentary.
Author: Alexander (of Aphrodisias.)
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Published: 2001
Total Pages: 187
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Eckhard Keßler
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2011-06-22
Total Pages: 108
ISBN-13: 9004210199
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book describes the doctrine and impact of Alexander of Aphrodisias, the second-century commentator on Aristotle, through the centuries and up to his sixteenth-century role as the clandestine prompter of a new philosophy of nature. In the millennium after his death, Alexander first served the Neo-Platonic schools as their authority on Aristotle, and in the Arabic centuries subsequently served as Averroes’ exemplary exponent of the doctrine of the mortality of the soul. For this reason, the Latin Scholastics deemed his work unworthy of being translated. This changed only in the late Middle Ages, when Alexander emerged as the only Aristotelian alternative to Averroes. When in 1495 his account of Aristotle’s psychology was translated and published, his principles of a natural philosophy, which were exempt from metaphysics and based on sense perception, eventually became accessible. The prompt reception and widespread endorsement of Alexander’s teaching testify to his impact throughout the sixteenth century. Originally published as Volume XVI, No. 1 (2011) of Brill's journal Early Science and Medicine.
Author: Michiel Meeusen
Publisher: Studies in Ancient Medicine
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9789004437654
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume provides a set of in-depth case studies about the role of questions and answers (Q&A) in ancient Greek medical writing from its Hippocratic beginnings up to, and including, Late Antiquity.
Author: Averroës
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 389
ISBN-13: 3110220016
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe series is devoted to the study of scientific and philosophical texts from the Classical and the Islamic world handed down in Arabic. Through critical text editions and monographs, it provides access to ancient scientific inquiry as it developed in a continuous tradition from Antiquity to the modern period. All editions are accompanied by translations and philological and explanatory notes.
Author: Celia Kathryn Hatherly
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2022-09-28
Total Pages: 201
ISBN-13: 166690449X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAccording to Avicenna, whatever exists, while it exists, exists of necessity. Not all beings, however, exist with the same kind of necessity. Instead, they exist either necessarily per se or necessarily per aliud. Avicenna on the Necessity of the Actual: His Interpretation of Four Aristotelian Arguments explains how Avicenna uses these modal claims to show that God is the efficient as well as the final cause of an eternally existing cosmos. In particular, Celia Kathryn Hatherly shows how Avicenna uses four Aristotelian arguments to prove this very un-Aristotelian conclusion. These arguments include Aristotle's argument for the finitude of efficient causes in Metaphysics 2; his proof for the prime mover in the Physics and Metaphysics 12; his argument against the Megarians in Metaphysics 9; and his argument for the mutual entailment between the necessary and the eternal in De Caelo 1.12. Moreover, Hatherly contends, when Avicenna's versions of these arguments are correctly interpreted using his distinctive understanding of necessity and possibility, the objections raised against them by his contemporaries and modern scholars fail.
Author: Andreas Lammer
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2018-02-05
Total Pages: 738
ISBN-13: 3110546086
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study is the first comprehensive analysis of the physical theory of the Islamic philosopher Avicenna (d. 1037). It seeks to understand his contribution against the developments within the preceding Greek and Arabic intellectual milieus, and to appreciate his philosophy as such by emphasising his independence as a critical and systematic thinker. Exploring Avicenna’s method of "teaching and learning," it investigates the implications of his account of the natural body as a three-dimensionally extended composite of matter and form, and examines his views on nature as a principle of motion and his analysis of its relation to soul. Moreover, it demonstrates how Avicenna defends the Aristotelian conception of place against the strident criticism of his predecessors, among other things, by disproving the existence of void and space. Finally, it sheds new light on Avicenna’s account of the essence and the existence of time. For the first time taking into account the entire range of Avicenna’s major writings, this study fills a gap in our understanding both of the history of natural philosophy in general and of the philosophy of Avicenna in particular. This monograph has been awarded the annual BRAIS – De Gruyter Prize (Kulturpreis Bayern) in the Study of Islam and the Muslim World and the Iran World Award for Book of the Year (2020).
Author: Alan Bowen
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2009-11-23
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9004189823
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume is the first collection of scholarly articles in any modern language devoted to Aristotle’s De caelo. It grew out of series of workshops held at Princeton, Cambridge, and Paris in the late 1990’s. Since Aristotle’s De caelo had a major influence on cosmological thinking until the time of Galileo and Kepler and helped to shape the way in which Western civilization imagined its natural environment and place at the center of the universe, familiarity with the main doctrines of the De caelo is a prerequisite for an understanding of much of the thought and culture of antiquity and the Middle Ages.
Author: Johan C. Thom
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2014-09-18
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9783161528095
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe treatise De mundo offers a cosmology in the Peripatetic tradition which subordinates what happens in the cosmos to the might of an omnipotent god. Thus the work is paradigmatic for the philosophical and religious concepts of the early imperial age, which offer points of contact with nascent Christianity.
Author: Ricardo Salles
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Published: 2009-09-24
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 0199556148
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNine new essays examine the close connection between theology and cosmology in Stoic philosophy. The contributors discuss the nature of god, his relation to the material world, fate and causation, rival cosmologies, and the ethical and religious consequences of the Stoic theories of god and cosmos.
