The Arabic Version of the Nicomachean Ethics

Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-90-04-14647-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 17, 622 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1089 g

Reihe: Aristoteles Semitico-Latinus

This volume offers a critical edition of the only extant Arabic manuscript of the Nicomachean Ethics.
A comprehensive introduction by the late Douglas M. Dunlop describes the influence this major Aristotelian work had on Arabic literature. Dunlop’s annotated English translation includes important references to the Greek text of the Ethics. The appendix includes a select Greek-Arabic glossary.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Akasoy, Anna

Fidora, Alexander

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Antike Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Introduction
Book I
Book I
Book I
Book II
Book III
Book IV
Book V
Book VI
'Seventh Book'
Book VII
Book VIII
Book IX
Book X
Selective Bibliography
Graeco-Arabic Glossary
Reversed Glossary
Index Nominum

Über Autor(innen)

Anna A. Akasoy, Ph.D. (2005) in Oriental Studies, Frankfurt University, is research assistant at the Warburg Institute. She has published on the history of Islamic science and philosophy including Philosophie und Mystik in der Almohadenzeit (Leiden, 2006).
Alexander Fidora, Ph.D. (2003) in Philosophy, Frankfurt University, is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Frankfurt University. He has published extensively on Arabic influences in Latin medieval philosophy including Die Wissenschaftstheorie des Dominicus Gundissalinus (Berlin 2003).