| Description |
1 online resource (x, 317 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction: Towards a balanced historiography of medieval philosophy / John Inglis -- Historical context. Medieval Islamic philosophy and the classical tradition / Michael E. Marmura -- Philosophy. Philosophical odyssey : Ghazzãli's Intentions of the philosophers / Gabriel Said Reynolds -- Relationship between Averroes and al-Ghazåli : as it presents itself in Averroes' early writings, especially in his commentary on al-Ghazåli's al-Mustaòsfå / Frank Griffel -- Al Ghazali and Halevi on philosophy and the philosophers / Barry S. Kogan -- Neoplatonism. Projection and time in Proclus / D. Gregory MacIsaac -- Forms of knowledge in the Arabic Plotinus / Peter Adamson -- Secundum rei vim vel secundum cognoscentium facultatem : knower and known in the Consolation of philosophy of Boethius and the Proslogion of Anselm / Wayne J. Hankey -- Proclean 'remaining' and Avicenna on existence as accident : Neoplatonic methodology and a defense of 'pre-existing' essences / Sarah Pessin -- Augustine vs Plotinus : the uniqueness of the vision at Ostia / Thomas Williams -- Creation. Infinite power and Plenitude : two traditions on necessity of the eternal / Taneli Kukkonen -- Challenge to medieval Christian philosophy : relating creator to creatures / David B. Burrell -- Virtue. Three kinds of objectivity / Jonathan Jacobs -- On defining Maimonides' Aristotelianism / Daniel H. Frank -- Porphyry, Bonaventure and Thomas Aquinas : a Neoplatonic hierarchy of virtues and two Christian appropriations / Joshua P. Hochschild -- The Latin reception. William of Auvergne and the Aristotelians : the nature of a servant / Michael Miller -- Is God a "what"? : Avicenna, William of Auvergne, and Aquinas on the Divine essence / John P. Rosheger -- Maimonides and Roger Bacon : did Roger Bacon read Maimonides? / Jeremiah Hackett |
| Summary |
An initial chapter on the history of Islamic philosophy sets the stage for sixteen articles on issues across the three traditions. The goal is to see the Islamic tradition in its own richness and complexity as the context of most Jewish intellectual work |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Philosophy, Medieval.
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Islamic philosophy.
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Jewish philosophy.
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Philosophy, Ancient -- Influence
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Medieval.
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Islamic philosophy
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Jewish philosophy
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Philosophy, Ancient -- Influence
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Philosophy, Medieval
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Inglis, John, 1954-
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| LC no. |
2003467178 |
| ISBN |
0203988752 |
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9780203988756 |
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1135790884 |
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9781135790882 |
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1280281316 |
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9781280281310 |
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9786610281312 |
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6610281319 |
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1135790876 |
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9781135790875 |
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