[PDF] Models Of Desire In Graeco Arabic Philosophy eBook

Author : Bethany Somma
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,24 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Desire (Philosophy)
ISBN : 9789004460843

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Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Desire and Its Models -- 1 Methodology -- 2 The Two Models and the Human Goal -- 3 Structure and Scope -- 1 An Inherent Model of Desire: Plotinus on Desire for the Good -- 1 Terminology of Desire -- 2 Desire in the General Structure of Reality -- 3 Desire in Intellect -- 4 Desire in Soul -- 5 Desire in Judgments and Action -- 6 What Does It Mean to Desire the Good? -- 7 Being Good-Like -- 8 Becoming like the Good -- 9 Formless Desire -- 2 The Plotiniana Arabica and Desire's Discontents -- 1 Desire in Intellect -- 2 Soul's Desire of Intellect -- 3 Soul and Body's Desire -- 4 Assimilation and the Ethical Implications of Soul's Procession -- 5 Virtue and the Return -- 6 Avicenna on the Theology of Aristotle -- 3 Aristotle and al-Fārābī on Desire -- 1 Aristotle on Desire -- 2 Al-Fārābī on Desire -- 3 Al-Fārābī on Aristotle on Desire -- 4 Models of Desire in Aristotle and al-Fārābī -- 4 Ibn Bāǧǧa on Desire and Conceptualization -- 1 Desire in the Soul -- 2 Desire in the Human Being -- 3 Striving Soul and the Body -- 4 Ibn Bāǧǧa on al-Ġazalī and the Sufis -- 5 Human Excellence and Desire -- 5 Ibn Ṭufayl: Situating Ḥayy Ibn Yaqẓān -- 1 The Purpose and Methodology of the Text -- 2 Ibn Ṭufayl on His Influences -- 3 Origins and Orientation -- 6 The Desire Inherent to Ibn Ṭufayl's Ḥayy Ibn Yaqẓān -- 1 Ḥayy's Desire -- 2 Ibn Ṭufayl's Interpretation of Avicenna and al-Ġazālī on Desire -- 3 Appetite and Dissection -- 4 Holistic Goal of Ḥayy's Education -- 5 Subject of Education, Subject of Desire -- Conclusion: Modelling the Study -- 1 Drawing the Boundaries of the Book -- 2 Ibn Bāǧǧa and Ibn Ṭufayl: Modelling Good Desire -- Bibliography -- Index.

Author : G. Anthony Bruno
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 44,96 MB
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 100381249X

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From ancient conceptions of becoming a philosopher to modern discussions of psychedelic drugs, the concept of transformation plays a fascinating part in the history of philosophy. However, until now there has been no sustained exploration of the full extent of its role. Transformation and the History of Philosophy is an outstanding survey of the history, nature, and development of the idea of transformation, from the ancient period to the twentieth century. Comprising twenty-two specially commissioned chapters by an international team of contributors, the volume is divided into four clear parts: Philosophy as Transformative: Ancient China, Greece, India, and Rome Transformation Between the Human and the Divine: Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy Transformation After the Copernican Revolution: Post-Kantian Philosophy Treatises, Pregnancies, Psychedelics, and Epiphanies: Twentieth-Century Philosophy Each of these sections begins with an introduction by the editors. Transformation and the History of Philosophy is essential reading for students and researchers in the history of western and non-western philosophy, ethics, metaphysics, and aesthetics. It will also be extremely useful for those in related disciplines such as religion, sociology, and the history of ideas.

Author : Naftali S. Cohn
Publisher : SBL Press
Page : 775 pages
File Size : 47,82 MB
Release : 2024-06-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1951498992

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This volume brings together the latest scholarship on Jewish literary products and the ways in which they can be interpreted from three different perspectives. In part 1, contributors consider texts as literature, as cultural products, and as historical documents to demonstrate the many ways that early Jewish, rabbinic, and modern secular Jewish literary works make meaning and can be read meaningfully. Part 2 focuses on exegesis of specific biblical and rabbinic texts as well as medieval Jewish poetry. Part 3 examines medieval and early modern Jewish books as material objects and explores the history, functions, and reception of these material objects. Contributors include Javier del Barco, Elisheva Carlebach, Ezra Chwat, Evelyn M. Cohen, Naftali S. Cohn, William Cutter, Yaacob Dweck, Talya Fishman, Steven D. Fraade, Dalia-Ruth Halperin, Martha Himmelfarb, Marc Hirshman, Tamar Kadari, Israel Knohl, Susanne Klingenstein, Katrin Kogman-Appel, Jon D. Levenson, Paul Mandel, Annett Martini, Jordan S. Penkower, Annette Yoshiko Reed, Jeffrey L. Rubenstein, Shalom Sabar, Raymond P. Scheindlin, Seth Schwartz, Sarit Shalev-Eyni, Moshe Simon-Shoshan, Peter Stallybrass, Josef Stern, Barry Scott Wimpfheimer, Elliot R. Wolfson, Azzan Yadin-Israel, and Joseph Yahalom.

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Publisher : BRILL
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 37,81 MB
Release : 2022-12-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9004459413

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Modern biomedical technologies managed to revolutionise the End-of-Life Care (EoLC) in many aspects. The dying process can now be “engineered” by managing the accompanying physical symptoms or by “prolonging/hastening” death itself. Such interventions questioned and problematised long-established understandings of key moral concepts, such as good life, quality of life, pain, suffering, good death, appropriate death, dying well, etc. This volume examines how multifaceted EoLC moral questions can be addressed from interdisciplinary perspectives within the Islamic tradition. Contributors Amir Abbas Alizamani, Beate Anam, Hamed Arezaei, Asma Asadi, Pieter Coppens, Hans Daiber, Khalid Elzamzamy, Mohammed Ghaly, Hadil Lababidi, Shahaboddin Mahdavi, Aasim Padela, Rafaqat Rashid and Ayman Shabana. تمكنت التكنولوجيا الحديثة في المجالات الطبية والحيوية من إحداث ثورة في مجال الرعاية الصحية عندما يكون المريض على مشارف نهاية العُمْر. فأصبح من الممكن الآن «هندسة» بعض جوانب مرحلة الاحتضار، وذلك بإدارة الأعراض الجسدية المصاحبة ومحاولة تأخير أو تعجيل حدث الوفاة. وقد أثار هذا النوع من التدخلات الطبية أسئلة وإشكالات معقدة حول عدد من المفاهيم الأخلاقية ضاربة الجذور في التراث الإسلامي خاصة، وفي الإرث الإنساني عامة، كمفاهيم: الحياة الطيبة وجودة الحياة والألم والمعاناة والميتة الصالحة. تقدم البحوث المنشورة في هذا الكتاب نماذج لكيفية معالجة هذه الأسئلة والإشكالات المتعددة الجوانب من خلال النظر في عدد من العلوم الإسلامية والمجالات المعرفية ذات الصلة. المساهمون حامد آرضائي، وأسماء أسدي، وبياته أنعم، وعاصم پادلا، وهانس دايبر، ورفقات رشيد، وخالد الزمزمي، وأمير عباس علي زماني، وأيمن شبانة، ومحمد غالي، وپيتر كوپنس، وهديل لبابيدي، وشهاب الدين مهدوي.

Author : Victoria de Rijke
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 21,86 MB
Release : 2022-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 3030823717

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This book explicitly unites the concepts of higher education and love to examine how these concepts are mutually compatible. As the world of higher education moves towards the metrics of value, and the worth of knowledge becomes more valued in its use rather than its discovery, a crisis brews. If higher education is to contribute to the wellbeing of the self and of others, then the institution needs to be radically reviewed to see if, and how, love contributes to higher education within and beyond its walls. This book addresses the core question of what would the university might be like, today and into the future, if the timeless notion of love was the basis of its educative process, notwithstanding the material artefacts the university helps to create, but also as a way of framing approaches to higher education.

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Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 43,64 MB
Release : 2007-03-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1603840338

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This volume introduces the major classical Arabic philosophers through substantial selections from the key works (many of which appear in translation for the first time here) in each of the fields--including logic, philosophy of science, natural philosophy, metaphysics, ethics, and politics--to which they made significant contributions. An extensive Introduction situating the works within their historical, cultural, and philosophical contexts offers support to students approaching the subject for the first time, as well as to instructors with little or no formal training in Arabic thought. A glossary, select bibliography, and index are also included.

Author : George G. M. James
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 32,60 MB
Release : 2013-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1627930159

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For centuries the world has been misled about the original source of the Arts and Sciences; for centuries Socrates, Plato and Aristotle have been falsely idolized as models of intellectual greatness; and for centuries the African continent has been called the Dark Continent, because Europe coveted the honor of transmitting to the world, the Arts and Sciences. It is indeed surprising how, for centuries, the Greeks have been praised by the Western World for intellectual accomplishments which belong without a doubt to the Egyptians or the peoples of North Africa.

Author : Delacy O'Leary
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 27,99 MB
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317847482

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First published in 2002. The history of science is one of knowledge being passed from community to community over thousands of years, and this is the classic account of the most influential of these movements -how Hellenistic science passed to the Arabs where it took on a new life and led to the development of Arab astronomy and medicine which flourished in the courts of the Muslim world, later passing on to medieval Europe. Starting with the rise of Hellenism in Asia in the wake of the campaigns of Alexander the Great, O'Leary deals with the Greek legacy of science, philosophy, mathematics and medicine and follows it as it travels across the Near East propelled by religion, trade and conquest. Dealing in depth with Christianity as a Hellenizing force, the influence of the Nestorians and the Monophysites; Indian influences by land and sea and the rise of Buddhism, O'Leary then focuses on the development of science during the Baghdad Khalifate, the translation of Greek scientific material into Arabic, and the effect for all those interested in the history of medicine and science, and of historical geography as well as the history of the Arab world.

Author : Peter Adamson
Publisher :
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 39,10 MB
Release : 2017-12-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781463207182

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The so-called "Theology of Aristotle" is a translation of the Enneads of Plotinus, the most important representative of late ancient Platonism. It was produced in the 9th century CE within the circle of al-Kindī, one of the most important groups for the early reception of Greek thought in Arabic. In part because the "Theology" was erroneously transmitted under Aristotle's authorship, it became the single most important conduit by which Neoplatonism reached the Islamic world. It is referred to by such thinkers as al-Fārābī, in an attempt to demonstrate the agreement between Platonism and Aristotelianism, Avicenna, who wrote a set of comments on the text, and later on thinkers of Safavid Persia including Mullā Ṣadrā. Yet the "Theology" is not just a translation. It may in fact more accurately be described as a creative paraphrase, which takes frequent liberties with the source text and even includes whole paragraphs' worth of new material. Adamson's book offers a philosophical interpretation of the changes introduced in the Arabic version. It is argued that these changes were in part intended to show the relevance of Plotinus' thought for contemporary Islamic culture, for instance by connecting the Neoplatonist theory of the First Principle to theological disputes within Islam over the status of God's attributes. At the same time the paraphrase reflects a tendency to harmonize the various strands of Greek thought, so that a critique by Plotinus of Aristotle's theory of the soul is subtly changed into a defense of Aristotle's theory against a possible misinterpretation. The upshot, or so Adamson argues, is that the "Theology" needs to be read as an original philosophical work in its own right, and understood within the context of the ʿAbbāsid era.

Author : Ali Humayun Akhtar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 38,86 MB
Release : 2017-06-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1316858111

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What was the relationship between government and religion in Middle Eastern history? In a world of caliphs, sultans, and judges, who exercised political and religious authority? In this book, Ali Humayun Akhtar investigates debates about leadership that involved ruling circles and scholars of jurisprudence and theology. At the heart of this story is a medieval rivalry between three caliphates: the Umayyads of Cordoba, the Fatimids of Cairo, and the Abbasids of Baghdad. In a fascinating revival of Late Antique Hellenism, Aristotelian and Platonic notions of wisdom became a key component of how these caliphs debated their authority as political leaders. By tracing how these political debates impacted the theological and jurisprudential scholars and their own conception of communal guidance, Akhtar offers a new picture of premodern political authority and the connections between Western and Islamic civilizations. It will be of use to students and specialists of the premodern and modern Middle East.