Galen and the Arabic Traditions of Plato's Timaeus
Title | Galen and the Arabic Traditions of Plato's Timaeus PDF eBook |
Author | Aileen R. Das |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2013 |
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Galen and the Arabic Reception of Plato's Timaeus
Title | Galen and the Arabic Reception of Plato's Timaeus PDF eBook |
Author | Aileen R. Das |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
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.
Galen and the Arabic Reception of Plato's Timaeus
Title | Galen and the Arabic Reception of Plato's Timaeus PDF eBook |
Author | Aileen R. Das |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
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.
The Textual Tradition of Plato's Timaeus and Critias
Title | The Textual Tradition of Plato's Timaeus and Critias PDF eBook |
Author | Gijsbert Jonkers |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 566 |
Release | 2016-11-21 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 900433520X |
In The Textual Tradition of Plato's Timaeus and Critias, Gijsbert Jonkers provides new insights into the extant ancient and medieval evidence for the text of both Platonic dialogues. The discussions are set in the broader context of examinations in recent decades of the textual traditions of other individual Platonic works. Particularly the vast collection of testimonia of the Timaeus, one of Plato's most read, interpreted and discussed dialogues of all times, will be of interest for students of ancient philosophy, science and philology.
Galen and the World of Knowledge
Title | Galen and the World of Knowledge PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Gill |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 347 |
Release | 2009-12-10 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0521767512 |
This study places Galen more firmly in the intellectual life of his period of the second century AD.
Plato's Timaeus as Cultural Icon
Title | Plato's Timaeus as Cultural Icon PDF eBook |
Author | Gretchen J. Reydams-Schils |
Publisher | |
Pages | 360 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | History |
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New forms of transnational mobility and diasporic belonging have become emblematic of a supposed global condition of uprootedness. Yet much recent theorizing of our so-called postmodern life emphasizes movement and fluidity without interrogating who and what is on the move. This book examines the interdependence of mobility and belonging by considering how homes are formed in relationship to movement. It suggests that movement does not only happen when one leaves home, and that homes are not always fixed in a single location. Home and belonging may involve attachment and movement, fixation and loss, and the transgression and enforcement of boundaries.
Bibliography of Islamic Philosophy, Volume 1
Title | Bibliography of Islamic Philosophy, Volume 1 PDF eBook |
Author | Hans Daiber |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 554 |
Release | 2023-12 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004534032 |
The print edition is available as a set of two volumes (9789004113473).