The Philosopher Responds
An Intellectual Correspondence from the Tenth Century
Questions and answers from two great philosophersWhy is laughter contagious? Why do mountains exist? Why do we long for the past, even if it is scarred by suffering? Spanning a vast array of subjects that range from the philosophical to the theological, from the philological to the scientific, The Philosopher Responds is the record of a set of questions put by the litterateur Abu ¿ayyan al-Taw¿idi to the philosopher and historian Abu ¿Ali Miskawayh. Both figures were foremost contributors to the remarkable flowering of cultural and intellectual life that took place in the Islamic world during the reign of the Buyid dynasty in the fourth/tenth…
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Weitere Autoren: Miskawayh, Abu ¿Ali / Vasalou, Sophia (Übers.) / Montgomery, James E. (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-1-4798-0637-9
- EAN: 9781479806379
- Produktnummer: 34904997
- Verlag: Princeton University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Plattform: EPUB
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Abu ¿ayyan al-Taw¿idi (d. 414/1023) was a prominent litterateur and philosopher in Baghdad.
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