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Studies on Plotinus and al-Kindi (Paperback)
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Studies on Plotinus and al-Kindi (Paperback)
Series: Variorum Collected Studies
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This book collects 15 papers on the greatest philosopher of late
antiquity and founder of Neoplatonism, Plotinus (d.270), and the
founding figure of philosophy in the Islamic world: al-KindAE" (d.
ca. 873). A number of the contributions focus on the text that
joins the two: the so-called Theology of Aristotle, in fact an
Arabic version of Plotinus' Enneads produced in al- KindAE"'s
translation circle. Across several papers, Adamson argues that this
translation is best understood as a reinterpretation of Plotinus
designed to appeal to contemporary readers in the culture of the
'AbbAEsid era. Two contributions also analyze the notes on the
Theology written by the great Avicenna. Other papers look at
aspects of al-KindAE"'s own thought, exploring his ideas concerning
metaphysics, free will astrology, and optics. The traditions of
Plotinus and al-KindAE" are also treated, with papers on Plotinus'
student Porphyry and his Arabic reception, and on followers of
al-KindAE". Adamson argues that we can identify what he calls a
'Kindian tradition' in the 9th-10th centuries. He discusses the
philosophical presuppositions of this movement, and the use of
al-KindAE"'s ideas made by one particular representative of the
Kindian tradition, the Persian thinker Miskawayh.
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