Animals in Greek, Arabic, and Latin philosophy / edited by Peter Adamson, Miira Tuominen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Adamson, Peter, 1972- editor.

Tuominen, Miira, editor.

Series:

Handbook of Oriental studies. Near and Middle East (2014) ; Section 1, volume 190.

Handbook of Oriental studies. Section one, the Near and Middle East = Handbuch der Orientalistik, 0169-9423 ; volume 190

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animals (Philosophy)--History--To 1500.

Animals (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

636 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2026]

Summary:

"Non-human animals are a topic of intense philosophical interest in the modern day. It is often supposed that this is a recent development, but in fact pre-modern philosophers were intensely interested in animals. Aristotle initiated a long-standing zoological tradition, but it was only part of the vast literature on animals in antiquity and the middle ages. To do it justice, this book gathers twenty-five studies of animals in Greek, Arabic, and Latin philosophy. Major themes include the cognitive capacities of animals, the difference between humans and animals and the question of how humans should treat animals, as well as God's relationship towards animals, animal diet and mating, language among animals, animal suffering, animals as ethical exemplars, and reincarnation. Contributors Peter Adamson, Tommaso Alpina, Hanif Amin Beidokhti, Zack Candy, Sophia M. Connell, Racha el-Omari, Kosta Gligorijevic, Guy Guldentops, Rotraud Hansberger, Paloma Hernández-Rubio, Tua Korhonen, Behnam Khodanpah, Philip Line, Thornton Lockwood, Ruizhi Ma, Janne Mattila, Robert Mayhew, Michele Meroni, Bahodir Musametov, Giulio Navarra, Marilù Papandreou, Nicolas Payen, Michael Payne, Jens-Ole Schmitt, John Skalko, and Miira Tuominen"-- Publisher, page 4 of cover.

Contents:

Introduction / Peter Adamson and Miira Tuominen

Animals "as if" : Homeric and Oppianic animal similes in the context of philosophical discussion on animals / Tua Korhonen

Aristotle on animal intelligence : a difference in degree or by analogy? / Miira Tuominen

Aristotle on human use of non-human animals / Sophia M. Connell

Non-human animals in the Nicomachean and Eudemian Ethics / Thornton Lockwood

Builders and weavers of the animal kingdom : non-human Poiêsis in Aristotle and the ancient commentators / Marilù Papandreou

The divine enema-inventing Egyptian ibis / Robert Mayhew

Galen, Priscian, and al-Fārābī on theodicy and venomous animals / Kosta Gligorijevic

Animal and human souls in the overall arrangement of the cosmos The Kindī-Circle's Adaptation of Alexander of Aphrodisias' De providentia as a Case Study of the Nascent "Arabic Aristotelianism" / Giulio Navarra

Sensing dimly by the light of reason? Downgrading animal perception in parts of the Arabic Aristotelian tradition / Rotraud Hansberger

Debating hybridity in al-Jāḥiẓ's Book of Mules / Michael Payne

The problem of animal suffering in the Brethren of Purity and Abū Bakr al-Rāzī : the Muʻtazilite context / Janne Mattila

Classes of animals in al-Fārābī's works / Nicolas Payen

Demarcating animals from plants : Abū al-Ḥassan al-ʻĀmirī in dialogue with Avicenna / Ruizhi Ma

Something in the milk : Ibn Abī l-Ashʻath on the content and function of milk for animals and humans / Jens-Ole Schmitt

Deconstructing the idea of the human as the noblest animal : a treatise by Qābūs Ibn Wushmgir / Behnam Khodapanah

Ibn Mattawayh's (fl. fifth/eleventh century) "Chapter on life" (al-Kalām fī l-ḥayā) and its arguments from animals. A preliminary introduction / Racha el Omari

Dogs Fear Mud, the Wooden Stick, and Other Things : notes on animal emotions in Avicenna / Tommaso Alphina

Ibn Bājja on the foundations of the science of animals / Bahodir Musametov

"Unto Him thou shalt all return" : the resurrection of animals in Ṣadr al-Dīn Shīrāzī / Hanif Amin Beidokhti

Political allegories or moral exemplars? The role of animals in Petrus Alfonsi's Disciplina Clericalis and its medieval English reception / Zachary Candy

Dicit Commentator quod cogitativa in nobis perfectior est quam aestimativa in brutis : how the Latin Averroes came to believe in Avicenna's estimative power / Michele Meroni

The irrational language : Albert the Great on the perception and langauge of Pygmies / Paloma Hernández Rubio

Can animals count? How might Aquinas explain recent cases of animals cognizing quantities or numbers? / John Skalko

"Loving animals has never prevented me from killing them" : later medieval scholastics on moral behavior toward non-human animals / Guy Guldentops

"A dog must know almost everything" : the dog in medieval European philosophy and practical treatises / Philip Line.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Other Format:

Online version Animals in Greek, Arabic, and Latin philosophy

ISBN:

9789004744127

9004744126

OCLC:

1521174096