| Title | Three Readings of Averroes’s Commentary on Plato’s “Republic” in Medieval Jewish Thought |
| Type | Book Section |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2022 |
| Published in | Plato's Republic in the Islamic Context. New Perspectives on Averroes's Commentary |
| Pages | 277–296 |
| Categories | Tradition and Reception, Influence |
| Author(s) | Alexander Green |
| Publisher(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| The ethical and political writings by late medieval Jewish philosophers are generally seen to be rooted in two fundamental classical texts, Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics and Plato's Republic. Yet, regarding the Republic, medieval Jewish thinkers likely had no direct access to it. It was Samuel ben Judah of Marseilles's translation of Averroes's Commentary on Plato's “Republic” into Hebrew in the 1320s that gave Hebrew readers some access to the Republic and made it the central classical text on political philosophy for Jewish thought. Indeed, it was used by Jewish thinkers for several hundred years thereafter. This chapter will focus on the question of how Plato's Republic came to influence medieval Jewish thought; in doing so, it will attempt to map out three distinct trends in how Jewish thinkers of the medieval period interpreted the Republic's core ideas. Samuel Ben Judah of Marseilles and the Translation into Hebrew The introduction of Plato's Republic into Jewish discussions on the nature of the political community took place after Samuel ben Judah of Marseilles's translation of Averroes's Commentary on Plato's “Republic” from Arabic into Hebrew was completed in 1320 and revised in 1321 and 1322. Samuel came from an established family in Provence that had acquired wealth over multiple generations. He studied philosophy with Senor (Don) Astruc de Noves and translated works on logic and astronomy. The movement of translating the great works of science and secular philosophy from Arabic into Hebrew, which had been started in Provence by Samuel ibn Tibbon (ca. 1165−1232) in the first decades of the thirteenth century and been furthered, in large part, by his son, Moses ibn Tibbon (ca. 1195−1274), his son-in-law, Jacob Anatoli (1194−1256), and his grandson, Jacob b. Makhir (ca. 1236−1304), was gradually coming to an end after the prodigious activity of Qalonimos ben Qalonimos (ca. 1286−1328) in the first decades of the fourteenth century. It had already begun to transform Judaism into what some have termed a philosophic religion. The deficiency in this model of philosophic religion is that it was overly focused on natural science and mostly ignored practical philosophy. |
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| Title | El sentido de las tres lecturas de Aristóteles por Averroes |
| Type | Book Section |
| Language | Spanish |
| Date | 2017 |
| Published in | La filosofía en Al Ándalus |
| Pages | 429–451 |
| Categories | Aristotle, Influence, Tradition and Reception |
| Author(s) | Miguel Cruz Hernández |
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| Title | Averroes and Fourteenth-Century Theories of Alteration |
| Type | Book Section |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2015 |
| Published in | Averroes’ Natural Philosophy and its Reception in the Latin West |
| Pages | 141–192 |
| Categories | Physics, Influence, Tradition and Reception, Commentary |
| Author(s) | Edith Dudley Sylla |
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| Title | Al-Ghazâlî, Averroes and Moshe Narboni: Conflict and Conflation |
| Type | Book Section |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2015 |
| Published in | Islam and Rationality: The Impact of al-Ghazâlî. Papers Collected on His 900th Anniversary Vol. 1 |
| Pages | 275–287 |
| Categories | al-Ġazālī, Commentary, Tradition and Reception, Influence |
| Author(s) | Alfred L. Ivry |
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| Title | Averroes and Averroisms in Portuguese. Medieval and Early Modern Scholastic Authors |
| Type | Book Section |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2014 |
| Published in | Mapping knowledge: cross-pollination in late Antiquity and the Middle Ages |
| Pages | 231–251 |
| Categories | Averroism, Tradition and Reception, Influence |
| Author(s) | José Meirinhos |
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| Title | Al-Ghazâlî, Averroes and Moshe Narboni: Conflict and Conflation |
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| Language | English |
| Date | 2015 |
| Published in | Islam and Rationality: The Impact of al-Ghazâlî. Papers Collected on His 900th Anniversary Vol. 1 |
| Pages | 275–287 |
| Categories | al-Ġazālī, Commentary, Tradition and Reception, Influence |
| Author(s) | Alfred L. Ivry |
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| Language | English |
| Date | 2014 |
| Published in | Mapping knowledge: cross-pollination in late Antiquity and the Middle Ages |
| Pages | 231–251 |
| Categories | Averroism, Tradition and Reception, Influence |
| Author(s) | José Meirinhos |
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| Title | Averroes and Fourteenth-Century Theories of Alteration |
| Type | Book Section |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2015 |
| Published in | Averroes’ Natural Philosophy and its Reception in the Latin West |
| Pages | 141–192 |
| Categories | Physics, Influence, Tradition and Reception, Commentary |
| Author(s) | Edith Dudley Sylla |
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| Title | El sentido de las tres lecturas de Aristóteles por Averroes |
| Type | Book Section |
| Language | Spanish |
| Date | 2017 |
| Published in | La filosofía en Al Ándalus |
| Pages | 429–451 |
| Categories | Aristotle, Influence, Tradition and Reception |
| Author(s) | Miguel Cruz Hernández |
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| Title | Three Readings of Averroes’s Commentary on Plato’s “Republic” in Medieval Jewish Thought |
| Type | Book Section |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2022 |
| Published in | Plato's Republic in the Islamic Context. New Perspectives on Averroes's Commentary |
| Pages | 277–296 |
| Categories | Tradition and Reception, Influence |
| Author(s) | Alexander Green |
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| The ethical and political writings by late medieval Jewish philosophers are generally seen to be rooted in two fundamental classical texts, Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics and Plato's Republic. Yet, regarding the Republic, medieval Jewish thinkers likely had no direct access to it. It was Samuel ben Judah of Marseilles's translation of Averroes's Commentary on Plato's “Republic” into Hebrew in the 1320s that gave Hebrew readers some access to the Republic and made it the central classical text on political philosophy for Jewish thought. Indeed, it was used by Jewish thinkers for several hundred years thereafter. This chapter will focus on the question of how Plato's Republic came to influence medieval Jewish thought; in doing so, it will attempt to map out three distinct trends in how Jewish thinkers of the medieval period interpreted the Republic's core ideas. Samuel Ben Judah of Marseilles and the Translation into Hebrew The introduction of Plato's Republic into Jewish discussions on the nature of the political community took place after Samuel ben Judah of Marseilles's translation of Averroes's Commentary on Plato's “Republic” from Arabic into Hebrew was completed in 1320 and revised in 1321 and 1322. Samuel came from an established family in Provence that had acquired wealth over multiple generations. He studied philosophy with Senor (Don) Astruc de Noves and translated works on logic and astronomy. The movement of translating the great works of science and secular philosophy from Arabic into Hebrew, which had been started in Provence by Samuel ibn Tibbon (ca. 1165−1232) in the first decades of the thirteenth century and been furthered, in large part, by his son, Moses ibn Tibbon (ca. 1195−1274), his son-in-law, Jacob Anatoli (1194−1256), and his grandson, Jacob b. Makhir (ca. 1236−1304), was gradually coming to an end after the prodigious activity of Qalonimos ben Qalonimos (ca. 1286−1328) in the first decades of the fourteenth century. It had already begun to transform Judaism into what some have termed a philosophic religion. The deficiency in this model of philosophic religion is that it was overly focused on natural science and mostly ignored practical philosophy. |
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