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The Philosophical Poetics of Alfarabi, Avicenna and Averroes : The Aristotelian Reception

By Salim Kemal

Book information

Publisher
Taylor & Francis Group
Year
2003
ISBN
9781136121227, 9780700713486
LCC
B725 -- .K46 2003eb
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2097814 bytes)
Series
Culture and Civilization in the Middle East Ser.
Edition
1
Pages
373\0
Time added
2023-08-04 01:16:45
Aesthetics

Description

This book examines the studies of Aristotle's Poetics and its related texts in which three Medieval philosophers - Alfarabi, Avicenna and Averroes - proposed a conception of poetic validity (beauty), and a just relation between subjects in a community (goodness). The work considers the relation of the Poetics to other Aristotelian texts, the transmission of these works to the commentators' context, and the motivations driving the commentators' reception of the texts. The book focuses on issues central to the classical relation of beauty to truth and goodness.

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