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

By Salim Kemal

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2012
ISBN
9781136121302, 1136121307
Google Books ID
_DQRIyOyG8YC
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1 MB (1394082 bytes)
Edition
First Edition
Pages
374\0
Time added
2024-04-29 10:23:53

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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