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al-Kindī, Abū Yūsuf Yaʿqūb ibn Isḥāq, The Philosophical Works of al-Kindi, edited by Peter E. Pormann and Peter Adamson, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2012, 500 pp.
- Resum
- This volume presents the philosophical writings of al-Kindī, known as the 'Philosopher of the Arabs'. Acknowledged as the first philosopher of the Arabic tradition, al-Kindī helped usher the ideas of Greek thinkers and scientists into the vibrant context of the Islamic culture of his day. He was deeply involved in the translation and reception of such thinkers as Socrates, Aristotle, Plotinus, and Euclid. Drawing on this Hellenic heritage, he wrote on a wide range of philosophical and scientific topics including metaphysics, theology, psychology, cosmology, ethics, and medicine. In these works, al-Kindī set out pioneering ideas about the relation of philosophy to religion, the oneness and providence of God, the nature of the human soul, the structure of the cosmos, and the eternity of the world. This book makes the whole of al-Kindī's philosophical corpus-some two dozen works-available in English, most of them for the first time. Extensive explanatory material is provided, in the form of an overall introduction, introductions to each work, and extensive notes. The translations are based largely on Arabic original texts, but in a few cases, where the Arabic originals are lost, on Medieval Latin versions. The volume will thus give a wide readership unprecedented access to al-Kindī's philosophical and scientific ideas.
Contents:
* Introduction
* Biography and Work Lists [Biogr.]
-- Section One: God and Eternity
* On First Philosophy [First Phil.]
* Three Texts against the Infinity of the World [Against Infinity]
* On the True Agent [True Agent]
* Against the Trinity [Against Trinity]
-- Section Two: The Soul and the Mind
* On the Intellect [Intellect]
* On Recollection [Recollection]
* That There Are Incorporeal Substances [Incorp. Subst.]
* Discourse on the Soul [Discourse Soul]
* A Concise and Brief Statement About the Soul [Concise Soul]
* On the Quiddity of Sleep and Dreams [Sleep Dreams]
* Two Texts on Colour [Colour]
-- Section Three: The Cosmos
* On the Proximate, Agent Cause of Generation and Corruption [Prox. Agent Cause]
* The Prostration of the Outermost Body [Prostration]
* On the Nature of the Celestial Sphere [Celestial Sphere]
* On Why the Ancients Related the Five Geometric Shapes to the Elements [Five Geometric Shapes]
* Why the Higher Atmosphere is Cold [Higher Atmosphere]
* On Rays [Rays]
-- Section Four: Ethics
* On Dispelling Sorrows [Dispelling Sorrows]
* The Sayings of Socrates [Sayings Socrates]
* Section Five: Systematising Philosophy
* On the Quantity of Aristotle's Books [Aristotle's Books]
* On the Definitions and Descriptions of Things [Definitions]
* On the Five Essences [Five Essences]
* Three Fragments [Fragments]
- Matèries
- Filosofia - Filosofia moral
Filosofia - Filosofia natural
Aristòtil
Arabisme
Fonts
Edició
Religió - Teologia islàmica
Cosmologia
Religió - Metafísica
- Notes
- Fitxa de l'editor: http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199062805.do
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