15 October: The Subject of Metaphysics 1 of 2
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Part 1 : Neoplatonism and the beginning of the Arabic Tradition: The One and Creator
MU-3 : Cameron Roman, Nathan Wiley, Domonique Turnipseed. Handout of absolutely not more than 6 pp. + 2 pp bibliography due Tuesday 5 pm US Central Time/ midnight Leuven. Thursday at class: 8-10 min. oral presentation followed by discussion.
Required:
Video lectures: (a) Plotiniana Arabica (41 min.) (b) Arabic Liber de causis (26 min.)
Assigned readings: al-Kindi First Agent Stern; al-Kindi Metaphysics 3 selections; Selections from the Arabic Liber de causis; Selections from the Plotiniana Arabica.
Recommended: Gerson, “Plotinus,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy sections 1, 2, 6; Adamson, “The Theology of Aristotle,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy ; Adamson, “Al-Kindi,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy; D’Ancona 2002 “Proclus, Denys, le Liber de Causis et la science divine” in Le Comtemplateur et les Ideas; D’Ancona 2010 “The Origins of Islamic Philosophy,” Cambridge History of Philosophy in Late Antiquity , L. Gerson (ed) 2010. v. . 869-893, 1171-1178; D’Ancona, “The Liber De Causis” in Interpreting Proclus, S. Gersh (ed.); Steel, “Proclus” in The Cambridge History of Philosophy in Late Antiquity, 630-653.
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Part 2 : Theoretical Philosophy and Practical Religion: al-Fārābī and Ibn Sīnā / Avicenna on Philosophy and Religion and the Subject of Metaphysics.
MU-4 : Jeremiah Noonan & Karolyn Burns. Handout of absolutely not more than 6 pp. + 2 pp bibliography due Tuesday 5 pm US Central Time/ midnight Leuven. Thursday at class: 8-10 min. oral presentation followed by discussion.
Required:
Video: al-Farabi (49 min.)
Assigned readings: al-Farabi, “Intentions of Aristotle’s Metaphysics” tr. Gutas; A. Bertolacci, “Establishing the Science of Metaphysics,” in The Routledge Companion to Islamic Philosophy, Taylor & López-Farjeat, eds. (2015); Avicenna, The Metaphysics of the Healing, 9.7, 10.1-3, 10.5, tr. Marmura.
Recommended: Druart, “Al-Farabi,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy; Bertolacci, “Arabic and Islamic Metaphysics,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy; Taylor 2018 Averroes and the Philosophical Account of Prophecy SGA 8; Avicenna, On the Proof of Prophecies and the Interpretation of the Prophets’ Symbols and Metaphors, tr. Marmura 1963.