UID:
almafu_9961784196102883
Format:
1 online resource (476 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9782503609386
,
2503609384
Series Statement:
Philosophy in the Abrahamic Traditions of the Middle Ages Series ; v.5
Content:
This scholarly book examines the influence of Arabic philosophical sources on Albert the Great, a significant medieval philosopher. It explores the interplay between inheritance and emergence in medieval science, focusing on how Albert utilized Arabic texts alongside Latin and Hebrew traditions. The book delves into Albert's engagement with the works of notable Arabic philosophers like Avicenna and Averroes, assessing their impact on his thoughts concerning ethics, natural philosophy, and metaphysics. Aimed at scholars and students of medieval philosophy, it highlights Albert's methods of integrating diverse intellectual traditions to shape his own philosophical ideas.
Note:
Front Matter -- Chapter 1. Introduction. Albert’s Philosophical scientia. Origins, Geneses, Emergences. Katja Krause and Richard C. Taylor -- Chapter 2. Albert the Great’s Definition of the Good. Its Arabic Origin and its Latin Transformations. Jorge Uscatescu Barrón -- Chapter 3. Albert the Great and Two Momentous Interpretive Accounts of Averroes. Richard C. Taylor -- Chapter 4. Albert’s Invocations of Averroes in his Account in Super Ethica of the Relation between Philosophical and Theological Ethics. Martin J. Tracey -- Chapter 5. Albert and ‘the Arabs’. On the Eternity of Motion. Josep Puig Montada -- Chapter 6. Albert the Great’s Treatment of Avicenna and Averroes on a Universal Flood and the Regeneration of Species. Irven M. Resnick -- Chapter 7. Against Averroes’s Naturalism. The Generation of Material Substances in Albert the Great’s De generatione et corruptione and Meteorologica IV. Adam Takahashi -- Chapter 8. Albert the Great’s Use of Averroes in his Digressions on Human Intellectual Knowledge (De anima III.3.8–11). Luis Xavier López-Farjeat -- Chapter 9. Is There an Intellectual Memory in the Individual Human Soul? Albert the Great between Avicenna and Aquinas. Jörn Müller -- Chapter 10. What Makes a Genius? Albert the Great on the Roots of Scientific Aptitude. Henryk Anzulewicz -- Chapter 11. Source Mining. Arabic Natural Philosophy and experientia in Albert the Great’s Scientific Practices. Katja Krause -- Chapter 12. Inheritance and Emergence of Transcendentals. Albert the Great between Avicenna and Averroes on First Universals. Amos Bertolacci -- Chapter 13. The Emanation Scheme of Albert the Great and the Questions of Divine Free Will and Mediated Creation. David Twetten -- Back Matter
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9782503609379
Additional Edition:
ISBN 2503609376
Language:
English
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