The Philosophical Poetics of Alfarabi, Avicenna and Averroes
Title | The Philosophical Poetics of Alfarabi, Avicenna and Averroes PDF eBook |
Author | Salim Kemal |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 373 |
Release | 2012-12-06 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1136121226 |
This book examines the studies of Aristotle's Poetics and its related texts in which three Medieval philosophers - Alfarabi, Avicenna and Averroes - proposed a conception of poetic validity (beauty), and a just relation between subjects in a community (goodness). The work considers the relation of the Poetics to other Aristotelian texts, the transmission of these works to the commentators' context, and the motivations driving the commentators' reception of the texts. The book focuses on issues central to the classical relation of beauty to truth and goodness.
The Poetics of Alfarabi and Avicenna
Title | The Poetics of Alfarabi and Avicenna PDF eBook |
Author | Salim Kemal |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 9789004093713 |
This book is an original and important study of philosophical issues in medieval Arabic poetics. Examining the commentaries on Aristotle's "Poetics by Avicenna" in the context of Aristotle's logical theory, the author shows how the philosophers justified the logical and moral power of poetic discourse.
Alfarabi, Avicenna, and Averroes, on Intellect
Title | Alfarabi, Avicenna, and Averroes, on Intellect PDF eBook |
Author | Herbert A. Davidson |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 374 |
Release | 1992-09-24 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 019536077X |
A study of problems, all revolving around the subject of intellect in the philosophies of Alfarabi, Avicenna, and Averroes, this book starts by reviewing discussions in Greek and early Arabic philosophy which served as the background for the three Arabic thinkers. Davidson examines the cosmologies and theories of human and active intellect in the three philosophers and covers such subjects as: the emanation of the supernal realm from the First Cause; the emanation of the lower world from the transcendent active intellect; stages of human intellect; illumination of the human intellect by the transcendent active intellect; conjunction of the human intellect with the transcendent active intellect; prophecy; and human immortality. Davidson shows that medieval Jewish philosophers and the Latin Scholastics had differing perceptions of Averroes because they happened to use works belonging to different periods of his philosophic career.
Avicenna's Commentary on the Poetics of Aristotle
Title | Avicenna's Commentary on the Poetics of Aristotle PDF eBook |
Author | Avicenna |
Publisher | Brill Archive |
Pages | 148 |
Release | 1974-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9789004039629 |
Alfarabi, Avicenna, and Averroes on Intellect
Title | Alfarabi, Avicenna, and Averroes on Intellect PDF eBook |
Author | Herbert Alan Davidson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2023 |
Genre | Intellect |
ISBN | 9780197729946 |
Medieval Islamic, Jewish and Christian philosophers of the 16th century considered the distinction between the potential and the active intellect as a key to deciphering the nature of man and the universe. This study examines the manner in which three specific philosophers dealt with the issue.
Avicenna and the Aristotelian Tradition
Title | Avicenna and the Aristotelian Tradition PDF eBook |
Author | Dimitri Gutas |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 356 |
Release | 2022-07-11 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9004451102 |
This is the second, revised and updated, edition of this foundational work introducing a reading of Avicenna's philosophical works that is consistent with his intention and purpose in philosophy. Its usefulness is enhanced with a new appendix offering a critical inventory of Avicenna's authentic works that incorporates and updates Mahdavi (1954).
Logic and Aristotle's Rhetoric and Poetics in Medieval Arabic Philosophy
Title | Logic and Aristotle's Rhetoric and Poetics in Medieval Arabic Philosophy PDF eBook |
Author | Deborah L. Black |
Publisher | Brill Academic Publishers |
Pages | 310 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN |
This book examines a widespread, and often misunderstood, doctrine within the medieval Aristotelian tradition, namely the inclusion of Aristotle's Rhetoric and Poetics within the scope of the Organon. It studies this doctrine, as presented by the Islamic philosophers Al- Fārābī, Avicenna, and Averroes, from a purely philosophical perspective, and argues that the logical construal of the arts of rhetoric and poetics is both interesting and illuminating. The book begins by examining some prevalent misconceptions regarding the logical interpretation of the Rhetoric and Poetics. Chapter two considers the Greek background of the doctrine, first through an examination of the Aristotelian divisions of the sciences, and then through an examination of the beginnings of the logical classification of the Rhetoric and Poetics among the Greek commentators from the school of Alexandria. The remainder of the work is devoted to a detailed consideration of the Arabic philosophers' development of the doctrine, both their understanding of its general epistemological and logical underpinnings, and their elaboration of the specific logical structures upon which poetical and rhetorical discourse is based. Consideration is also given to the relationship between contemporary philosophical views of rhetoric and poetics, and the views of these medieval authors.