Received opinions : doxography in antiquity and the islamic world / Andreas Lammer, Mareike Jas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lammer, Andreas, author.

Jas, Mareike, author.

Series:

Philosophia Antiqua

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Methodology--History.

Methodology.

Philosophy, Ancient.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (426 pages)

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Brill, [2022]

Summary:

"This volume-the proceedings of a 2018 conference at LMU Munich funded by Fritz Thyssen Stiftung-brings together, for the first time, experts on Greek, Syriac, and Arabic traditions of doxography. Fourteen contributions provide new insight into the state of the art in contemporary research on the widespread phenomenon of doxography. Together they demonstrate that Greek, Syriac, and Arabic forms of doxography share common features and raise related questions in such a way that current research would benefit from interdisciplinary exchange among colleagues from various disciplines, such as classics, Arabic studies, and the history of philosophy"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Doxography: Ends and Means / Andreas Lammer and Mareike Jas

1. Making Sense of Other Philosophers: Exegesis and Interpretation in Aristotle / Christian Pfeiffer

2. Helping the Reader: The Paratextual Elements in the Aëtian Placita in the Framework of Its Genre / Jaap Mansfeld

3. Irreducible Texts: The Implications for an Edition of the Aëtian Placita / David T. Runia

4. Heraclitus on Principles: A Stoic Lemma in Aëtius? / Max Bergamo

5. Presocratics and Presocratic Philosophy in Galen / Teun Tieleman

6. "Reputable Opinions" (endoxa) in Aristotle, Theophrastus, and Simplicius: Doxography or Endoxography? / Han Baltussen

7. Interpreting Parmenides of Elea in Antiquity: From Plato's Parmenides to Simplicius' Commentary on Aristotle's Physics / Christoph Helmig

8. Greek Philosophers in Monastic Schools: Syriac Forms of Doxography / Yury Arzhanov

9. Doxography as Textbook: An Arabic Excerpt of Ps.-Plutarch's Placita philosophorum / Ute Pietruschka

10. Not Everything That Looks Like a Doxography is One: The Philosophical Compilation in the Tehran ms Ketābḫāne-ye Markazī-ye Dānešgāh 2103 / Elvira Wakelnig

11. Reporting the Dualists: al-T̲anawiyya as a Doxological Category in Classical Kalām / David Bennett

12. Doxography and Philosophical Method: Avicenna's Treatment of Presocratic Opinions / Andreas Lammer

13. Ibn Ṭufayl's Use and Misuse of His Predecessors / Bethany Somma

14. A Case Study in Arabic Doxography: Šahrastānī's Account of Pythagoras and Its Ismāʻīlī Background / Fedor Benevich

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Lammer, Andreas Received Opinions: Doxography in Antiquity and the Islamic World

ISBN:

90-04-50445-1

OCLC:

1293249927