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| Author | : Aileen R. Das |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 259 |
| Release | : 2020-11-12 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 1108499481 |
Examines how Galen and his medieval Arabic successors invoke Plato's Timaeus to reimagine medicine and philosophy.
| Author | : Aileen R. Das |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 259 |
| Release | : 2020-11-12 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1108602991 |
This first full-length study of the Arabic reception of Plato's Timaeus considers the role of Galen of Pergamum (129–c. 216 CE) in shaping medieval perceptions of the text as transgressing disciplinary norms. It argues that Galen appealed to the entangled cosmological scheme of the dialogue, where different relations connect the body, soul, and cosmos, to expand the boundaries of medicine in his pursuit for epistemic authority – the right to define and explain natural reality. Aileen Das situates Galen's work on disciplinary boundaries in the context of medicine's ancient rivalry with philosophy, whose professionals were long seen as superior knowers of the cosmos vis-à-vis doctors. Her case studies show how Galen and four of the most important Christian, Muslim, and Jewish thinkers in the Arabic Middle Ages creatively interpreted key doctrines from the Timaeus to reimagine medicine and philosophy as well as their own intellectual identities.
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| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2013 |
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| Author | : Christina Hoenig |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 351 |
| Release | : 2018-08-02 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1108415806 |
The book explores the development of Platonic philosophy by Roman writers between the first century BCE and the early fifth century CE. Discusses the interpretation of Plato's Timaeus by Cicero, Apuleius, Calcidius, and Augustine, and examines how they contributed to the construction of the complex and multifaceted genre of Roman Platonism.
| Author | : Petros Bouras-Vallianatos |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 710 |
| Release | : 2019-03-27 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9004394354 |
Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Galen presents a comprehensive account of the afterlife of the corpus of the second-century AD Greek physician Galen of Pergamum. In 31 chapters, written by a range of experts in the field, it shows how Galen was adopted, adapted, admired, contested, and criticised across diverse intellectual environments and geographical regions, from Late Antiquity to the present day, and from Europe to North Africa, the Middle and the Far East. The volume offers both introductory material and new analysis on the transmission and dissemination of Galen’s works and ideas through translations into Latin, Syriac, Arabic, Hebrew and other languages, the impact of Galenic thought on medical practice, as well as his influence in non-medical contexts, including philosophy and alchemy.
| Author | : Gretchen Reydams-Schils |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 255 |
| Release | : 2020-09-24 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1108356176 |
This is the first study to assess in its entirety the fourth-century Latin commentary on Plato's Timaeus by the otherwise unknown Calcidius, also addressing features of his Latin translation. The first part examines the authorial voice of the commentator and the overall purpose of the work; the second part provides an overview of the key themes; and the third part reassesses the commentary's relation to Stoicism, Aristotle, potential sources, and the Christian tradition. This commentary was one of the main channels through which the legacy of Plato and Greek philosophy was passed on to the Christian Latin West. The text, which also establishes a connection between Plato's cosmology and Genesis, thus represents a distinctive cultural encounter between the Greek and the Roman philosophical traditions, and between non-Christian and Christian currents of thought.
| Author | : Rachel Barney |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 409 |
| Release | : 2012-02-16 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0521899664 |
Investigates Plato's account of the tripartite soul, looking at how the theory evolved over the Republic, Phaedrus and Timaeus.
| Author | : Nicholas Allan Aubin |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 296 |
| Release | : 2023-12-31 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 3111325083 |
"The world is a finite body, and therefore has finite power." John Philoponus is remembered for using this Aristotelian premise to break ranks with Aristotle and argue that the world is not everlasting. This investigation reconsiders Philoponus’s arguments from finite power, and then explores the aftermath of this line of thinking in the works of three lesser-known Arabic intellectuals active in the generation before Avicenna (d. 1037): Abū l-Ḫayr Ibn Suwār (d. after 1017), Abū al-Ḥasan al-ʿĀmirī (d. 992), and Abū Sahl al-Masīḥī (d. after 1025). Each engaged with this dictum in unique and novel ways, and in so doing anticipated a number of central features of Avicenna’s writings. The history of this argument is of crucial importance for understanding the evolution of natural philosophy and metaphysics in this formative period, away from tedious and simplistic arguments about creation and towards a more robust modal ontology based on intrinsic and extrinsic necessity.
| Author | : Peter N. Singer |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 761 |
| Release | : 2024 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0190913681 |
The Oxford Handbook of Galen provides a comprehensive overview of the life, work, and legacy of Galen (129--c. 216 CE), arguably the most important medical figure of the Graeco-Roman world. It contains essays by thirty leading experts on Galen's life and background, his medical theories, his therapeutic and clinical practices, and his philosophical contributions in the areas of logic, epistemology, causation, scientific method, and ethics. The authors also discuss the most important pathways of the transmission of his texts and his intellectual legacy, from late antiquity to early modern times and from western Europe to Tibet and China.
| Author | : Ulrich Rudolph |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 708 |
| Release | : 2023-08-28 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 900468574X |
Philosophy in the Islamic World is a comprehensive and unprecedented four-volume reference work devoted to the history of philosophy in the realms of Islam, from its beginnings in the eighth century AD down to modern times. In the period covered by this second volume (eleventh and twelfth centuries). Both major and minor figures of the period are covered, giving details of biography and doctrine, as well as detailed lists and summaries of each author’s works. This is the English version of the relevant volume of the Ueberweg, the most authoritative German reference work on the history of philosophy ( Philosophie in der Islamischen Welt Band II: 11.–12. Jahrhundert. Zentrale und östliche Gebiete , Basel: Schwabe, 2021). Contributors Peter Adamson, Amos Bertolacci, Hans Daiber, Frank Griffel, Dimitri Gutas, Hermann Landolt, Wilferd Madelung, Jon McGinnis, Ahmed H. al-Rahim, David C. Reisman, Ulrich Rudolph, Tony Street, Johannes Thomann, and Renate Würsch.
