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Metaphysique d'Ibn Gabirol et de la tradition platonicienne (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Metaphysique d'Ibn Gabirol et de la tradition platonicienne (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Variorum Collected Studies
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Early in his career, Fernand Brunner became one of the few
specialists on Ibn Gabirol, a Jewish philosopher and poet in
11th-century Spain, whose treatise, the Fons vitae, is known only
in Latin translation. Brunner showed the coherence of this rarely
studied version of Platonism and traced its impact on the
scholastic philosophy of the succeeding centuries. His work was
guided by a systematic interest in Platonic solutions to such
problems as the relations of matter and form, and of God to the
world. This volume includes a number of previously unpublished
papers, several of which also provide broad expositions of a
Platonic ontology. The author makes his reader aware that arguments
as well as images must be taken seriously in the attempt to
approach the Platonic tradition. Des le debut de sa carriere,
Fernand Brunner est rapidement devenu l'un des rares specialistes
d'Ibn Gabirol, le poete philosophe juif espagnol du 11e siecle -
dont le traite, le Fons vitA|, n'est connu qu'en version latine.
Guide dans ses recherches par un interAt systematique pour les
solutions platoniciennes aux problemes des rapports entre la forme
et la matiere, et entre Dieu et le monde, Brunner a demontre la
coherence de cette interpretation rarement etudiee du platonisme et
en a retrace l'effet sur la philosophie scolastique des siecles
suivants. Ce volume comprend plusieurs exposes inedits traitant de
l'ontologie platonicienne dont la comprehension, selon Brunner, est
essentielle A tout historien de la philosophie. L'auteur fait
prendre conscience A ses lecteurs de l'importance des arguments,
tout comme des metaphores, dans toute tentative d'approche de la
tradition platonique.
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