Averroes On Platos Republic
Download and Read Averroes On Platos Republic full books in PDF, ePUB, and Kindle. Read online free Averroes On Platos Republic ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Averroes on Plato's "Republic"
Author | : Averroes |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2014-08-21 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0801471648 |
Download Averroes on Plato's "Republic" Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
"In one fashion or another, the question with which this introduction begins is a question for every serious reader of Plato's Republic: Of what use is this philosophy to me? Averroes clearly finds that the Republic speaks to his own time and to his own situation.... Perhaps the greatest use he makes of the Republic is to understand better the shari'a itself.... It is fair to say that in deciding to paraphrase the Republic, Averroes is asserting that his world—the world defined and governed by the Koran—can profit from Plato's instruction."—from Ralph Lerner’s IntroductionAn indispensable primary source in medieval political philosophy is presented here in a fully annotated translation of the celebrated discussion of the Republic by the twelfth-century Andalusian Muslim philosopher, Abu'l-Walid Muhammad Ibn Ahmad Ibn Rushd, also know by his his Latinized name, Averroes. This work played a major role in both the transmission and the adaptation of the Platonic tradition in the West. In a closely argued critical introduction, Ralph Lerner addresses several of the most important problems raised by the work.
Averroes on Plato's "Republic" Related Books
Pages: 230
Pages: 212
Pages: 209
Pages: 360
Pages: 176