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This represents a valuable contribution to the histories of both Eastern and Western philosophy. It traces the transmission of Greek philosophy and science to the Islamic world, and from there to the medieval Latin scholars of Western Europe.
This represents a valuable contribution to the histories of both Eastern and Western philosophy. It traces the transmission of Greek philosophy and science to the Islamic world, and from there to the medieval Latin scholars of Western Europe.
Ibn Sina (980-1037 AD), long known in the West as Avicenna, was at the center of the school of Islamic philosophy that inherited and adapted Greek thinking from pre-Socratic to late Hellenic times, says Jansson. The 17 essays he has collected here discuss such aspects as his her…
"This study argues that late ancient Greek and medieval Islamic philosophers interpret human desire along two frameworks in reaction to Aristotle's philosophy. The investigation of the model dichotomy unfolds historically from the philosophy of Plotinus through the Graeco-Arabic…
"This study argues that late ancient Greek and medieval Islamic philosophers interpret human desire along two frameworks in reaction to Aristotle's philosophy. The investigation of the model dichotomy unfolds historically from the philosophy of Plotinus through the Graeco-Arabic…
"Recent years have seen a dramatic change in scholarly views of the later career of Arabic and Islamic philosophy. For much of the twentieth century, researchers tended to dismiss the value of Arabic writings on philosophy and logic after the twelfth century, often on the basis …
