Title | Warrior Women in Ibn Rushd’s Commentary on Plato’s Republic: Mythico-Barbarian Geography in the Case for Female Guardians, an Unsolved Passage |
Type | Article |
Language | English |
Date | 2022 |
Journal | Al Masaq: Islam and the Medieval Mediterranean |
Volume | 34 |
Issue | 3 |
Pages | 314-335 |
Categories | Commentary, Plato, Politics |
Author(s) | Tineke Melkebeek |
Publisher(s) | |
Translator(s) |
In his commentary on Plato’s Republic, Ibn Rushd (Averroes) discusses the case for female guardians. Besides following Socrates’s argument for female warriors, which cites the efficiency of female guard dogs, Ibn Rushd introduces an additional argument: that the female capacity for warfare is evident from the inhabitants of certain regions. Unfortunately, the precise formulation of the regions or groups he intends to mention is obscure in the existing manuscripts. Rosenthal translates “the inhabitants of deserts and frontier villages”, Lerner’s translation says “the inhabitants of deserts and the City of Women”. This article aims to analyse these and other translations of this enigmatic passage, which has not yet been the subject of study. Concerning the second region mentioned, it seems that Ibn Rushd could be indicating Northern Spain, but he might also have been alluding to the legendary places at the coldest margins of the then-known world. |
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Title | Imposing Alfarabi on Plato: Averroes’s Novel Placement of the Platonic City |
Type | Book Section |
Language | English |
Date | 2022 |
Published in | Plato's Republic in the Islamic Context. New Perspectives on Averroes's Commentary |
Pages | 19–39 |
Categories | al-Fārābī, Galen, Aristotle, Plato, Politics, Commentary |
Author(s) | Alexander Orwin |
Publisher(s) | |
Translator(s) |
Averroes's Commentary on Plato's “Republic” goes far beyond merely commenting on the original. With the benefit of 1,500 years of hindsight, it reckons with important works of philosophy that would have been completely unknown to Plato. Averroes mentions three authors of such works by name: Galen, whom he mostly rebukes, Aristotle, and Alfarabi. It would be hasty to assert that by including such extraneous material, Averroes departs from Plato, but, at the very least, he updates him on account of historical developments. The importance of Averroes's post-Platonic additions is evident from the very structure of the work. The part of it that can plausibly claim to be a commentary on Plato does not begin until 27.24, almost seven pages into Rosenthal's Hebrew text. Averroes begins to address the subject of war, corresponding to Republic 374b, having skipped all of book 1 and the majority of book 2, with only two brief references to them in the opening section (CR 22.27–30, 23.31–33, cf. 47.29–30and 105.25–27). Averroes does not justify his omission until the very end of the work, when he states that the opening part of the Republic does not contain any of the demonstrative arguments of which his commentary is comprised (CR 105.25–27, cf. 21.4). He is more immediately forthright about the reasons for what he includes in its place. In keeping with the demonstrative focus of the work, Averroes replaces Platonic dialectic with a substantial discussion of science. Having divided practical science into two parts, one about general habits and actions and another about their implementation, Averroes explains: “Before we begin a point-by-point explanation of what is in these arguments [of Plato], we ought to mention the things pertinent to this [second] part [of practical science] and explained in the first part, that serve as foundation for what we wish to say here at the beginning” (CR 22.6–8). Averroes's introduction concerns above all the first part of political science, while the Republic proper contains only the second. Averroes attributes to Plato only a small part of the ensuing discussion, concerning justice, the division of labor, and the arrangement of the soul (CR 22.22–24.6, esp. 22.27, 23.31). The other passages are inspired by Aristotle and especially Alfarabi. Averroes appears to substitute scientific arguments from Aristotle and Alfarabi—mainly about science, philosophy, courage, and war—for Plato's dialectical introduction about justice and the founding of the just city. |
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Averroes does not justify his omission until the very end of the work, when he states that the opening part of the Republic does not contain any of the demonstrative arguments of which his commentary is comprised (CR 105.25\u201327, cf. 21.4). He is more immediately forthright about the reasons for what he includes in its place. In keeping with the demonstrative focus of the work, Averroes replaces Platonic dialectic with a substantial discussion of science. Having divided practical science into two parts, one about general habits and actions and another about their implementation, Averroes explains: \u201cBefore we begin a point-by-point explanation of what is in these arguments [of Plato], we ought to mention the things pertinent to this [second] part [of practical science] and explained in the first part, that serve as foundation for what we wish to say here at the beginning\u201d (CR 22.6\u20138). Averroes's introduction concerns above all the first part of political science, while the Republic proper contains only the second. Averroes attributes to Plato only a small part of the ensuing discussion, concerning justice, the division of labor, and the arrangement of the soul (CR 22.22\u201324.6, esp. 22.27, 23.31). The other passages are inspired by Aristotle and especially Alfarabi. 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Title | Music, Poetry, and Politics in Averroes’s Commentary on Plato’s “Republic” |
Type | Book Section |
Language | English |
Date | 2022 |
Published in | Plato's Republic in the Islamic Context. New Perspectives on Averroes's Commentary |
Pages | 87–110 |
Categories | Poetics, Politics, Plato |
Author(s) | Douglas Kries |
Publisher(s) | |
Translator(s) |
As our title announces, the current essay will explore three subjects that, in Averroes's Commentary on Plato's “Republic,” lead from one into another, almost like a short series of stepping-stones. The first part of the essay will consider the treatment of music in the Commentary, arguing that Averroes effectively reduces music to poetry. The second of the stepping-stones will show that the Commentary credits poetry with educating the young especially and in that way transforms poetry into a political art for disciplining and educating citizens. The third will take up the question of the Andalusian's extended criticism of poetry's common practice of offering pleasurable prizes and rewards for virtue and show how the Commentator applies this criticism of poetry to the very author on whom he is commenting. In pursuing all three of these questions, we will focus squarely on Averroes's Commentary on Plato's “Republic,” attempting to understand that text on its own terms but against its obvious background, the Republic of Plato. Nevertheless, in pursuing the teaching of The Commentary on Plato's “Republic,” we cannot neglect the important research that has been done in recent decades on classical Islamic philosophy's understanding of Aristotle's Organon generally and of the Poetics in particular. We will therefore turn to the reports of other scholars on these aspects of Averroes, at least to the extent that such reports will be helpful in enabling us to understand better the Commentary on Plato's “Republic.” In the Republic, Plato initiates his analysis of the education of the guardians with a discussion of music in the latter portions of book 2; that discussion extends through much of book 3. Averroes's corresponding treatment of the education of the guardians through music is in the “First Treatise” of the Commentary, mostly in a relatively lengthy and isolable section that extends from 29.9 through 36.5. During his treatment of music, Plato divides his subject into three parts: “melody is composed of three things—speech, harmonic mode, and rhythm.” Averroes seems to accept this division, although he inverts the order of the three elements: “A melody occurring in a narrative is composed of three things: rhythm, harmonic mode, and the speech to which the melody is set” (34.30–31). |
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Title | Averroes between Platonic Philosophy and the Sharīʻa |
Type | Book Section |
Language | English |
Date | 2022 |
Published in | Leo Strauss and Islamic Political Thought |
Pages | 46-83 |
Categories | Relation between Philosophy and Theology, Tradition and Reception, Plato, Politics, Modern Readings |
Author(s) | Rasoul Namazi |
Publisher(s) | |
Translator(s) |
Chapter 1 is dedicated to the interpretation of a recently discovered, unpublished typescript by Strauss on Averroes’s commentary on Plato’s Republic. In this transcript, available as Appendix A and composed sometime after 1956, Strauss underscores the conflict between philosophy and Islam in Averroes’s commentary on Plato’s Republic. The transcript consists only of short notes and therefore, to reveal its message, it needs to be interpreted in the context of Strauss’s other writings. Strauss’s interpretation of Averroes is based on the idea that Averroes must have been aware of the incompatibility of Islamic revelation with the best regime of Plato. Unlike other scholars, who are mainly preoccupied with Averroes’s access or lack thereof to a reliable translation of Plato’s Republic, Strauss argues that the deficiencies of Averroes’s commentary do not mean that Averroes did not have access to Plato’s Republic; he claims that such apparent deficiencies might be intentional and significant for understanding Averroes’s views. |
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Title | La recepción de la ética aristotélica en Averroes y su impacto en el mundo latino medieval |
Translation | The reception of the Aristotelian Ethics in Averroes and its influence on trhe medieval latin world |
Type | Article |
Language | Spanish |
Date | 2021 |
Journal | Endoxa |
Volume | 48 |
Pages | 15-46 |
Categories | Aristotle, Commentary, Nicomachean ethics, Tradition and Reception, Plato, Albert, Aquinas |
Author(s) | Andrés Martínez Lorca |
Publisher(s) | |
Translator(s) |
El pensamiento ético de Averroes apenas ha sido estudiado y ello a pesar de que es el nico filósofo islámico medieval del que se conserva un Comentario a la principal obra ristotélica sobre el tema, la Ética nicomáquea. El eje del presente trabajo es precisamente un nuevo análisis de ese Comentario a través de los conceptos de eudaimonía o felicidad, philía o amistad y tò díkaion o justicia.Averroes subraya los aspectos sociales y políticos apuntados por Aristóteles llegando a considerar el gobierno de los estados uno de los objetivos de su discurso ético. Asimismo, señala la preocupación de los legisladores por buscar la concordia civil que es considerada el mayor bien en las comunidades. Hay, pues, una conexión entre ética y política. Tiene, sin embargo, la hegemonía la política.Finalmente se considera este aspecto desatendido hasta ahora en la historiografía medieval: fue gracias al pensador andalusí como se produjo en el Occidente latino la recepción de la Ética nicomáquea de Aristóteles, obra que penetró en los círculos filosóficos y también en la cultura bajomedieval. La favorable acogida de los dos rincipales teólogos cristianos de la Edad Media, Alberto Magno y Tomás de Aquino, al Comentario de Averroes, traducido al latín por un obispo, ayudó a su difusión en el mundo medieval y más tarde en el Renacimiento. The ethical thought of Averroes has hardly been studied, and this despite the fact that he is the only medieval islamic philosopher whose Commentary on the main Aristotelian work on the subject, the Nicomachean Ethics, is preserved. The axis of this paper is precisely a new analysis of this Commentary through the concepts of eudaimonía or happiness, philía or friendship and tò díkaion or justice.Averroes underlines the social and political aspects pointed out by Aristotle, considering the government of the states one of the purposes of his ethical discourse. Likewise, he asserts the concern of legislators to seek civil harmony, which is considered the highest good in the communities. There is, consequently, a connection between ethics and politics. However, politics has the hegemony.Finally, is considered this neglected aspect so far in medieval historiography: it was thanks to the Andalusian thinker that was produced in the Latin West the reception of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, a work that entered philosophical circles and also late medieval culture. The favorable reception of the two main Christian theologians of the Middle Ages, Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas, to the Commentary of Averroes, translated into Latin by a bishop, contributed to its spreading in the medieval world and later the Renaissance. |
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Title | The medieval Islamic commentary on Plato’s republic: Ibn Rushd’s perspective on the position and potential of women |
Type | Article |
Language | English |
Date | 2021 |
Journal | Islamology |
Volume | 11 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 9-23 |
Categories | Commentary, Plato, Politics, Tradition and Reception |
Author(s) | Tineke Melkebeek |
Publisher(s) | |
Translator(s) |
This paper investigates the twelfth-century commentary on Plato’s Republic by the Andalusian Muslim philosopher Ibn Rushd (Averroes). Ibn Rushd is considered to be the only Muslim philosopher who commented on the Republic. Written around 375 BC, Plato’s Republic discusses the order and character of a just city-state and contains revolutionary ideas on the position and qualities of women, which remained contested also in Ibn Rushd’s time. This Muslim philosopher is primarily known as the most esteemed commentator of Aristotle. However, for the lack of an Arabic translation of Aristotle’s Politics, Ibn Rushd commented on the political theory of Aristotle’s teacher, i.e. Plato’s Republic, instead. In his commentary, Ibn Rushd juxtaposes examples from Plato’s context and those from contemporary Muslim societies. Notably, when he diverges from the text, he does not drift off toward more patriarchal, Aristotelian interpretations. On the contrary, he argues that women are capable of being rulers and philosophers, that their true competencies remain unknown as long as they are deprived of education, and that this situation is detrimental to the flourishing of the city. This article aims to critically analyse Ibn Rushd’s statements on the position of women, as well as their reception in scholarly literature. |
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Title | Ficino und Averroes. Ein vorläufiger Kommentar zu Ficinos Auseinandersetzung mit Averroes im Buch XV der Theologia Platonica |
Type | Book Section |
Language | German |
Date | 2021 |
Published in | Averroism between the 15th and 17th Century |
Pages | 9–79 |
Categories | Renaissance, Tradition and Reception, Plato |
Author(s) | Thomas Leinkauf |
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Translator(s) |
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Title | Echoes of Averroes in Renaissance Platonism: Cardinal Bessarion |
Type | Book Section |
Language | English |
Date | 2021 |
Published in | Averroism between the 15th and 17th Century |
Pages | 116–150 |
Categories | Plato, Renaissance, Tradition and Reception |
Author(s) | Jozef Matula |
Publisher(s) | |
Translator(s) |
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Title | Jewish Socratic Questions in an Age without Plato: Permitting and Forbitting OpenInquiry in 12-15th Century Europe and North Africa |
Type | Monograph |
Language | English |
Date | 2021 |
Publication Place | Leiden |
Publisher | Brill |
Series | Maimonides Library of Philosophy and Religion |
Volume | 1 |
Categories | Plato, Tradition and Reception |
Author(s) | Yehuda Halper |
Publisher(s) | |
Translator(s) |
Yehuda Halper examines Jewish depictions of Socrates and Socratic questioning of the divine among European and North African Jews of the 12th-15th centuries. Without direct access to Plato, their understanding of Socrates is indirect, based on legendary material, on fragmentary quotations from Plato, or on Aristotle. Out of these sources, Jewish authors of this period formed two distinct views of Socrates: one as a wise, ascetic, monotheist, and the other as a vocal skeptic. The latter view has its roots in Plato's Apology where Socrates describes his divine mandate to question all knowledge, including knowledge of the divine. After exploring how this and similar questions arise in the works of Judah Halevi and the Hebrew Averroes, Halper traces how such open-questioning of the divine arises in the works of Maimonides, Jacob Anatoli, Gersonides, and Abraham Bibago. |
Online Access | https://brill.com/view/title/59627 |
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Title | The Contention between Secular and Revealed Law: Analyzing Ibn Rushd’s Solution to the Problem of the “Virtuous Society” |
Type | Article |
Language | English |
Date | 2019 |
Journal | Journal of Islamic and Muslim Studies |
Volume | 4 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 43–65 |
Categories | Politics, Law, Commentary, Plato |
Author(s) | Jaan S. Islam |
Publisher(s) | |
Translator(s) |
This article is an analysis of the political thought of Ibn Rushd and its significance for the current conflict in Islamic political thought between liberal, secular and conservative Islamist thinkers over the meaning of the “virtuous society” and how it can be implemented. It is argued that the thought of Ibn Rushd offers a concept of the virtuous society that reconciles secular law and religious Sharī‘a law. The article analyzes Ibn Rushd’s Commentary on Plato’s Republic, and assesses it as potentially being able to reconcile the philosophical conflict between logically discerned law and revealed law. It is contended that the separation between “religious” and “political” (i.e., philosophical) domains often attributed to Ibn Rushd does not fully consider the entirety of Ibn Rushd’s writings and interprets his works without regard for their historical and religious contextual significance. |
Online Access | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/jims.4.1.02 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.2979/jims.4.1.02 |
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Title | Averroes between Platonic Philosophy and the Sharīʻa |
Type | Book Section |
Language | English |
Date | 2022 |
Published in | Leo Strauss and Islamic Political Thought |
Pages | 46-83 |
Categories | Relation between Philosophy and Theology, Tradition and Reception, Plato, Politics, Modern Readings |
Author(s) | Rasoul Namazi |
Publisher(s) | |
Translator(s) |
Chapter 1 is dedicated to the interpretation of a recently discovered, unpublished typescript by Strauss on Averroes’s commentary on Plato’s Republic. In this transcript, available as Appendix A and composed sometime after 1956, Strauss underscores the conflict between philosophy and Islam in Averroes’s commentary on Plato’s Republic. The transcript consists only of short notes and therefore, to reveal its message, it needs to be interpreted in the context of Strauss’s other writings. Strauss’s interpretation of Averroes is based on the idea that Averroes must have been aware of the incompatibility of Islamic revelation with the best regime of Plato. Unlike other scholars, who are mainly preoccupied with Averroes’s access or lack thereof to a reliable translation of Plato’s Republic, Strauss argues that the deficiencies of Averroes’s commentary do not mean that Averroes did not have access to Plato’s Republic; he claims that such apparent deficiencies might be intentional and significant for understanding Averroes’s views. |
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Title | Averroes’ Commentary on Plato’s Republic |
Type | Book Section |
Language | English |
Date | 2015 |
Published in | Political Philosophy and Philosophy of History: Proceedings of the Colloquium dedicated to Muhsin Mahdi |
Pages | 27–42 |
Categories | Commentary, Plato, Politics |
Author(s) | Muhsin Mahdi |
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Title | Averróis e a República de Platão |
Type | Article |
Language | Portuguese |
Date | 2007 |
Journal | VeritasA Filosofia árabe e judaica e o ocidente medieval |
Volume | 52 |
Issue | 3 |
Pages | 104–116 |
Categories | Plato, Politics |
Author(s) | Rosalie Helena de Souza Pereira , Rosalie Helena de Souza Pereira |
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Title | Averróis: a arte de governar. Uma leitura aristotelizante da República |
Type | Monograph |
Language | Portuguese |
Date | 2012 |
Publication Place | São Paulo |
Publisher | Perspectiva |
Categories | Politics, Aristotle, Plato |
Author(s) | Rosalie Helena de Souza Pereira |
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Title | Commentario sobre a “República”. A partir da versão Latina de Elia del Medigo |
Type | Monograph |
Language | Portuguese |
Date | 2015 |
Publication Place | Sao Paulo |
Publisher | Perspectiva |
Categories | Plato, Politics, Commentary, Transmission |
Author(s) | Anna Lia A. de Almeida Prado , Rosalie Helena de Souza Pereira |
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Title | Dialogues on Plato's Politeia (Republic): selected papers from the Ninth Symposium Platonicum |
Type | Edited Book |
Language | undefined |
Date | 2013 |
Publication Place | Sankt Augustin |
Publisher | Academia-Verlag |
Series | International Plato Studies |
Volume | 31 |
Categories | Plato, Politics |
Author(s) | Noburu Nōtomi , Luc Brisson |
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Title | Does Averroes Have a Philosophy of History? |
Type | Article |
Language | English |
Date | 2004 |
Journal | Mélanges de l'Université Saint-JosephThe Greek Strand in Islamic Political Thought. Proceedings of the Conference held at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 16–27 June 2003 |
Volume | 57 |
Pages | 411–441 |
Categories | Politics, Plato |
Author(s) | Maroun Aouad |
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The paper tries to determine whether Averroes has a theory of political change. It discusses his reasons for deviating from Plato's sequence of political regimes. |
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Title | Echoes of Averroes in Renaissance Platonism: Cardinal Bessarion |
Type | Book Section |
Language | English |
Date | 2021 |
Published in | Averroism between the 15th and 17th Century |
Pages | 116–150 |
Categories | Plato, Renaissance, Tradition and Reception |
Author(s) | Jozef Matula |
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Title | Ficino und Averroes. Ein vorläufiger Kommentar zu Ficinos Auseinandersetzung mit Averroes im Buch XV der Theologia Platonica |
Type | Book Section |
Language | German |
Date | 2021 |
Published in | Averroism between the 15th and 17th Century |
Pages | 9–79 |
Categories | Renaissance, Tradition and Reception, Plato |
Author(s) | Thomas Leinkauf |
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Title | Imposing Alfarabi on Plato: Averroes’s Novel Placement of the Platonic City |
Type | Book Section |
Language | English |
Date | 2022 |
Published in | Plato's Republic in the Islamic Context. New Perspectives on Averroes's Commentary |
Pages | 19–39 |
Categories | al-Fārābī, Galen, Aristotle, Plato, Politics, Commentary |
Author(s) | Alexander Orwin |
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Averroes's Commentary on Plato's “Republic” goes far beyond merely commenting on the original. With the benefit of 1,500 years of hindsight, it reckons with important works of philosophy that would have been completely unknown to Plato. Averroes mentions three authors of such works by name: Galen, whom he mostly rebukes, Aristotle, and Alfarabi. It would be hasty to assert that by including such extraneous material, Averroes departs from Plato, but, at the very least, he updates him on account of historical developments. The importance of Averroes's post-Platonic additions is evident from the very structure of the work. The part of it that can plausibly claim to be a commentary on Plato does not begin until 27.24, almost seven pages into Rosenthal's Hebrew text. Averroes begins to address the subject of war, corresponding to Republic 374b, having skipped all of book 1 and the majority of book 2, with only two brief references to them in the opening section (CR 22.27–30, 23.31–33, cf. 47.29–30and 105.25–27). Averroes does not justify his omission until the very end of the work, when he states that the opening part of the Republic does not contain any of the demonstrative arguments of which his commentary is comprised (CR 105.25–27, cf. 21.4). He is more immediately forthright about the reasons for what he includes in its place. In keeping with the demonstrative focus of the work, Averroes replaces Platonic dialectic with a substantial discussion of science. Having divided practical science into two parts, one about general habits and actions and another about their implementation, Averroes explains: “Before we begin a point-by-point explanation of what is in these arguments [of Plato], we ought to mention the things pertinent to this [second] part [of practical science] and explained in the first part, that serve as foundation for what we wish to say here at the beginning” (CR 22.6–8). Averroes's introduction concerns above all the first part of political science, while the Republic proper contains only the second. Averroes attributes to Plato only a small part of the ensuing discussion, concerning justice, the division of labor, and the arrangement of the soul (CR 22.22–24.6, esp. 22.27, 23.31). The other passages are inspired by Aristotle and especially Alfarabi. Averroes appears to substitute scientific arguments from Aristotle and Alfarabi—mainly about science, philosophy, courage, and war—for Plato's dialectical introduction about justice and the founding of the just city. |
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