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Author(s): Peter Pormann; Syed Nomanul Haq; Peter Adamson
ISBN(s): 9780199062805, 0199062803
Edition: Hardcover
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Year: 2012
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0199062803 

ISBN 13: 978-0199062805

Author: Peter Pormann, Peter Adamson

This volume renders into English the philosophical writings of the first philosopher of Islam: al-Kindi, known as the “Philosopher of the Arabs”. One of the greatest figures of medieval philosophy, al-Kindi initiated the process of integrating Greek philosophical ideas into Islamic culture. He was deeply involved in the translation of Greek philosophy and science into Arabic, and wrote on a wide range of philosophical and scientific topics including metaphysics, theology, psychology, cosmology, ethics, and medicine. In these works al-Kindi sets out pioneering ideas about the relation of philosophy to religion, the oneness and providence of God, the nature of the human soul, the structure of the cosmos, and the eternity of the world. This book makes the whole of al-Kindi’s philosophical corpus – some two dozen works – available in English, most of them for the first time. Extensive explanatory material is provided, in the form of an overall introduction, introductions to each work, and extensive notes. The translations are based largely on Arabic original texts, but in a few cases on medieval Latin versions where the Arabic originals are lost. The volume will thus give a wide readership unprecedented access to al-Kindi’s philosophical and scientific ideas.

Table of contents:

Section One: God and Eternity

1. On First Philosophy
2. Three Texts against the Infinity of the World
3. On the True Agent
4. Against the Trinity

Section Two: The Soul and the Mind
5. On the Intellect
6. On Recollection
7. That There Are Incorporeal Substances
8. Discourse on the Soul
9. A Concise and Brief Statement About the Soul
10. On the Quiddity of Sleep and Dreams
11. Two Texts on Colour

Section Three: The Cosmos
12. On the Proximate, Agent Cause of Generation and Corruption
13. The Prostration of the Outermost Body
14. On the Nature of the Celestial Sphere
15. On Why the Ancients Related the Five Geometric Shapes to the Elements
16. Why the Higher Atmosphere is Cold
17. On Rays

Section Four: Ethics
18. On Dispelling Sorrows
19. The Sayings of Socrates

Section Five: Systematising Philosophy
20. On the Quantity of Aristotle’s Books
21. On the Definitions and Descriptions of Things
22. On the Five Essences
23. Three Fragments

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