| Title | The Origin and Nature of Language and Logic: Perspectives in Medieval Islamic, Jewish, and Christian Thought |
| Type | Edited Book |
| Language | undefined |
| Date | 2020 |
| Publication Place | Turnhout |
| Publisher | Brepols |
| Series | Rencontres de Philosophie Médiévale |
| Volume | 20 |
| Categories | Logic, Theology, Metaphysics, al-Fārābī, Aristotle, Avicenna, Maimonides |
| Author(s) | Nadja Germann , Steven Harvey |
| Publisher(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| The annual colloquium of the SIEPM in Freiburg, Germany, was groundbreaking in that it featured a more or less equal number of talks on all three medieval cultures that contributed to the formation of Western philosophical thought: the Islamic, Jewish, and Christian traditions. Indeed, the subject of the colloquium, ‘The Origin and Nature of Language and Logic in Medieval Islamic, Jewish, and Christian Thought’, lent itself to such a cross-cultural approach. In all these traditions, partially inspired by ancient Greek philosophy, partially by other sources, language and thought, semantics and logic occupied a central place. As a result, the chapters of the present volume effortlessly traverse philosophical, religious, cultural, and linguistic boundaries and thus in many respects open up new perspectives. It should not be surprising if readers delight in chapters of a philosophical tradition outside of their own as much as they do in those in their area of expertise. Among the topics discussed are the significance of language for logic; the origin of language: inspiration or convention; imposition or coinage; the existence of an original language; the correctness of language; divine discourse; animal language; the meaningfulness of animal sounds; music as communication; the scope of dialectical disputation; the relation between rhetoric and demonstration; the place of logic and rhetoric in theology; the limits of human knowledge; the meaning of categories; the problem of metaphysical entailment; the need to disentangle the metaphysical implications of language; the quantification of predicates; and the significance of linguistic custom for judging logical propositions. |
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| Title | A reference to al-Fârâbî’s Kitâb al-hurûf in Averroes’ critique of Avicenna (Tahâfut al-Tahâfut, 371,5-372,12 Bouyges) |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2014 |
| Journal | Studi Magrebini |
| Volume | 12-13 |
| Pages | 433-452 |
| Categories | al-Fārābī, Avicenna, Commentary, Metaphysics |
| Author(s) | Cecilia Martini Bonadeo |
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| Al-Fārābī’s Book of Letters (Kitāb al-ḥurūf) and the analyses devoted in this text to the terminology of “being” are authoritative references for Averroes from the epitomes of his youth to his mature treatises. Also the Farabian doctrine of the conventionality of the natural language plays a role in Averroes’ thought. This paper discusses the Tahāfut al-Tahāfut, (pp.371,5-372.12 Bouyges), where Averroes has recourse to the Book of Letters in criticizing Avicenna’s distinction between essence and existence. Averroes explicitly mentions the title of the work and recalls a passage from the fifteenth chapter. This passage had already inspired him in the Epitome on Metaphysics, where Averroes did not mention explicitly his source, but followed in al-Fārābī’s footsteps as for the analysis of the uses of “being”. Averroes uses tacitly the same passage also in his Commentary on Metaphysics Delta 7. |
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| Title | Fārābī in the Reception of Avicenna's Metaphysics. Averroes against Avicenna on Being and Unity |
| Type | Book Section |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2012 |
| Published in | The Arabic, Hebrew and Latin Reception of Avicenna's Metaphysics |
| Pages | 51–96 |
| Categories | al-Fārābī, Avicenna, Metaphysics |
| Author(s) | Stephen Menn |
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| Title | Fārābī in the Reception of Avicenna’s Metaphysics. Averroes against Avicenna on Being and Unity |
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| Date | 2012 |
| Published in | The Arabic, Hebrew and Latin Reception of Avicenna's Metaphysics |
| Pages | 51–96 |
| Categories | al-Fārābī, Avicenna, Metaphysics, Tradition and Reception |
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| Title | Arabic/Islamic Philosophy in Thomas Aquinas’s Conception of the Beatific Vision in IV Sent., D. 49, Q. 2, A.1 |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2012 |
| Journal | The Thomist |
| Volume | 76 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 509–550 |
| Categories | Metaphysics, al-Fārābī, Ibn Bāǧǧa, Avicenna, Alexander of Aphrodisias |
| Author(s) | Richard C. Taylor |
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| Title | Les limites de la métaphysique selon Al-Fārābi, Ibn Bājja et Maimonide. Sources et antithèses de ces doctrines chez Alexandre d'Aphrodise et chez Themistius |
| Type | Book Section |
| Language | French |
| Date | 1981 |
| Published in | Sprache und Erkenntnis im Mittelalter |
| Pages | 211–225 |
| Categories | Metaphysics, al-Fārābī, Ibn Bāǧǧa |
| Author(s) | Shlomo Pines |
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| Title | A reference to al-Fârâbî’s Kitâb al-hurûf in Averroes’ critique of Avicenna (Tahâfut al-Tahâfut, 371,5-372,12 Bouyges) |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2014 |
| Journal | Studi Magrebini |
| Volume | 12-13 |
| Pages | 433-452 |
| Categories | al-Fārābī, Avicenna, Commentary, Metaphysics |
| Author(s) | Cecilia Martini Bonadeo |
| Publisher(s) | |
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| Al-Fārābī’s Book of Letters (Kitāb al-ḥurūf) and the analyses devoted in this text to the terminology of “being” are authoritative references for Averroes from the epitomes of his youth to his mature treatises. Also the Farabian doctrine of the conventionality of the natural language plays a role in Averroes’ thought. This paper discusses the Tahāfut al-Tahāfut, (pp.371,5-372.12 Bouyges), where Averroes has recourse to the Book of Letters in criticizing Avicenna’s distinction between essence and existence. Averroes explicitly mentions the title of the work and recalls a passage from the fifteenth chapter. This passage had already inspired him in the Epitome on Metaphysics, where Averroes did not mention explicitly his source, but followed in al-Fārābī’s footsteps as for the analysis of the uses of “being”. Averroes uses tacitly the same passage also in his Commentary on Metaphysics Delta 7. |
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| Title | Arabic/Islamic Philosophy in Thomas Aquinas’s Conception of the Beatific Vision in IV Sent., D. 49, Q. 2, A.1 |
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| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 509–550 |
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| Author(s) | Richard C. Taylor |
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| Title | Fārābī in the Reception of Avicenna's Metaphysics. Averroes against Avicenna on Being and Unity |
| Type | Book Section |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2012 |
| Published in | The Arabic, Hebrew and Latin Reception of Avicenna's Metaphysics |
| Pages | 51–96 |
| Categories | al-Fārābī, Avicenna, Metaphysics |
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| Pages | 51–96 |
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| Title | Les limites de la métaphysique selon Al-Fārābi, Ibn Bājja et Maimonide. Sources et antithèses de ces doctrines chez Alexandre d'Aphrodise et chez Themistius |
| Type | Book Section |
| Language | French |
| Date | 1981 |
| Published in | Sprache und Erkenntnis im Mittelalter |
| Pages | 211–225 |
| Categories | Metaphysics, al-Fārābī, Ibn Bāǧǧa |
| Author(s) | Shlomo Pines |
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| Title | The Origin and Nature of Language and Logic: Perspectives in Medieval Islamic, Jewish, and Christian Thought |
| Type | Edited Book |
| Language | undefined |
| Date | 2020 |
| Publication Place | Turnhout |
| Publisher | Brepols |
| Series | Rencontres de Philosophie Médiévale |
| Volume | 20 |
| Categories | Logic, Theology, Metaphysics, al-Fārābī, Aristotle, Avicenna, Maimonides |
| Author(s) | Nadja Germann , Steven Harvey |
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| The annual colloquium of the SIEPM in Freiburg, Germany, was groundbreaking in that it featured a more or less equal number of talks on all three medieval cultures that contributed to the formation of Western philosophical thought: the Islamic, Jewish, and Christian traditions. Indeed, the subject of the colloquium, ‘The Origin and Nature of Language and Logic in Medieval Islamic, Jewish, and Christian Thought’, lent itself to such a cross-cultural approach. In all these traditions, partially inspired by ancient Greek philosophy, partially by other sources, language and thought, semantics and logic occupied a central place. As a result, the chapters of the present volume effortlessly traverse philosophical, religious, cultural, and linguistic boundaries and thus in many respects open up new perspectives. It should not be surprising if readers delight in chapters of a philosophical tradition outside of their own as much as they do in those in their area of expertise. Among the topics discussed are the significance of language for logic; the origin of language: inspiration or convention; imposition or coinage; the existence of an original language; the correctness of language; divine discourse; animal language; the meaningfulness of animal sounds; music as communication; the scope of dialectical disputation; the relation between rhetoric and demonstration; the place of logic and rhetoric in theology; the limits of human knowledge; the meaning of categories; the problem of metaphysical entailment; the need to disentangle the metaphysical implications of language; the quantification of predicates; and the significance of linguistic custom for judging logical propositions. |
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