The pilgrimage of philosophy : a festschrift for Charles E. Butterworth / edited by René M. Paddags, Waseem El-Rayes, Gregory A. McBrayer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Paddags, René M., editor.

El-Rayes, Waseem, editor.

McBrayer, Gregory A. (Gregory Alan), 1978- editor.

Butterworth, Charles E. (Charles Edwin), 1938- honouree.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islamic philosophy.

Political science--Philosophy.

Political science.

Philosophy, Medieval.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

357 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

South Bend, Indiana : St. Augustine's Press, [2019]

Summary:

"The Pilgrimage of Philosophy: A Festschrift for Charles E. Butterworth intends to introduce readers to the work of Charles E. Butterworth, and thereby to introduce students to Medieval Islamic political philosophy, of which Butterworth is one of the world's most prominent scholars. In a wider sense, the Festschrift introduces its readers to the current debates on Medieval Islamic political philosophy, related as they are to the questions of the relationship between Islam and Christianity, the Medieval to the Modern world, and reason and revelation. Butterworth's scholarship spans six decades, primarily translating, editing, and interpreting the works of the Muslim political philosopher Alfarabi (d. 950) and Averroes (Ibn Rushd, d. 1198). He began his studies of Muslim political philosophy at a time when the Middle East and Islam did not have the political salience they have acquired in more recent years. Instead, Butterworth's reason for engaging with Islam was rooted in the question of the relationship between reason and revelation. While one possible answer was pursued in the Christian, Latin West, the Islamic borderlands of Greek, Roman, and Muslim civilization offered another. By exploring Averroes, who provides the possibility of an Aristotelian-Islamic political philosophy, and Alfarabi, who pursues a Platonic-Islamic political philosophy, Butterworth showed how Islamic civilization provided a viable alternative to the theologico-political question reason v revelation, as well as serving as an inspiration to the Latin West."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Revelation as the marriage of faith and reason / Janet Madigan

The story of Adam's sons Cain and Abel in Torah and Quran / Steven D. Ealy

Leo Strauss's developing interest in Alfarabi and its reverberations in the study of medieval Islamic philosophy / Steven Harvey

Vipers, weeds, and disorder in the whole / Joshua Parens

God's perfection and negative rheology in Alfarabi / Christopher Colmo

The origin of primary principles : the role of nature and experience / Miriam Galston

Alfarabi's account of poetry as a logical art in "A treatise on the canons of the art of poetry" / Terence J. Kleven - Alfarabi : the cave revisited / Shawn Welnak

"On Averroes's use of logical methods in defense of philosophy" / David M. DiPasquale

An unknown Ismā'īlī interpretation of Quran 3:7 / Carmela Baffioni, Monica Scotti

Averroes and medieval rationalism : toward religious pluralism of the modem era / John R. Pottenger

The unity of reason and revelation : how faith can lead to understanding / David Burrell

Interpreting the interpreter : awe and exceptionalism in the Averroes of Etienne Gilson / Gary M. Kelly

American churches and the Holocaust : the tragic struggle between revelation and reason in the 1930s / Melissa M. Matthes

Montesquieu's critique of lslam / Joshua Bandoch

Transcendence and society : on the critical understanding of "modern" society / Jürgen Gebhardt.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1587316579

9781587316579

OCLC:

1111643158