Received Opinions: Doxography in Antiquity and the Islamic World

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-50444-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 160, 416 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 834 g

Reihe: Philosophia Antiqua

This volume—the proceedings of a 2018 conference at LMU Munich funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation—brings together, for the first time, experts on Greek, Syriac, and Arabic traditions of doxography. Fourteen contributions provide new insight into state-of-the-art contemporary research on the widespread phenomenon of doxography. Together, they demonstrate how Greek, Syriac, and Arabic forms of doxography share common features and raise related questions that benefit interdisciplinary exchange among colleagues from various disciplines, such as classics, Arabic studies, and the history of philosophy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Lammer, Andreas

Jas, Mareike

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Nicht-Westliche Philosophie Islamische & Arabische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Philosophie & Wissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Antike Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Doxography: Ends and Means

Andreas Lammer and Mareike Jas

1 Making Sense of Other Philosophers: Exegesis and Interpretation in Aristotle

Christian Pfeiffer

2 Helping the Reader: The Paratextual Elements in the Aëtian Placita in the Framework of Its Genre

Jaap Mansfeld

3 Irreducible Texts: The Implications for an Edition of the Aëtian Placita

David T. Runia

4 Heraclitus on Principles: A Stoic Lemma in Aëtius?

Max Bergamo

5 Presocratics and Presocratic Philosophy in Galen

Teun Tieleman

6 “Reputable Opinions” (endoxa) in Aristotle, Theophrastus, and Simplicius: Doxography or Endoxography?

Han Baltussen

7 Interpreting Parmenides of Elea in Antiquity: From Plato’s Parmenides to Simplicius’ Commentary on Aristotle’s Physics

Christoph Helmig

8 Greek Philosophers in Monastic Schools: Syriac Forms of Doxography

Yury Arzhanov

9 Doxography as Textbook: An Arabic Excerpt of Ps.-Plutarch’s Placita philosophorum

Ute Pietruschka

10 Not Everything That Looks Like a Doxography is One: The Philosophical Compilation in the Tehran MS Ketab?ane-ye Markazi-ye Danešgah 2103

Elvira Wakelnig

11 Reporting the Dualists: al-?anawiyya as a Doxological Category in Classical Kalam

David Bennett

12 Doxography and Philosophical Method: Avicenna’s Treatment of Presocratic Opinions

Andreas Lammer

13 Ibn ?ufayl’s Use and Misuse of His Predecessors

Bethany Somma

14 A Case Study in Arabic Doxography: Šahrastani’s Account of Pythagoras and Its Isma?ili Background

Fedor Benevich

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Andreas Lammer is Assistant Professor of History of Philosophy at Radboud University Nijmegen. Before his appointment in Nijmegen, he received his Ph.D. in philosophy and Arabic studies from LMU Munich and held positions at the LMU, the Thomas Institute in Cologne, and Trier University.

Mareike Jas is an independent researcher with a Ph.D. in classical philology from LMU Munich and continues to work on the text of Ps.-Galen’s De historia philosophorum and the doxographical tradition of Ae¨tius.