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Received Opinions: Doxography in Antiquity and the Islamic World
Series: - Philosophia Antiqua, Volume: 160
This volume—the proceedings of a 2018 conference at LMU Munich funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation—brings together, for the first time, experts on Greek, Syriac, and Arabic traditions of doxography. Fourteen contributions provide new insight into state-of-the-art contemporary research on the widespread phenomenon of doxography. Together, they demonstrate how Greek, Syriac, and Arabic forms of doxography share common features and raise related questions that benefit interdisciplinary exchange among colleagues from various disciplines, such as classics, Arabic studies, and the history of philosophy.
Andreas Lammer is Assistant Professor of History of Philosophy at Radboud University Nijmegen. Before his appointment in Nijmegen, he received his Ph.D. in philosophy and Arabic studies from LMU Munich and held positions at the LMU, the Thomas Institute in Cologne, and Trier University.
Mareike Jas is an independent researcher with a Ph.D. in classical philology from LMU Munich and continues to work on the text of Ps.-Galen’s De historia philosophorum and the doxographical tradition of Aëtius.
Mareike Jas is an independent researcher with a Ph.D. in classical philology from LMU Munich and continues to work on the text of Ps.-Galen’s De historia philosophorum and the doxographical tradition of Aëtius.
Preface
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Doxography: Ends and Means
Andreas Lammer and Mareike Jas
1 Making Sense of Other Philosophers: Exegesis and Interpretation in Aristotle
Christian Pfeiffer
2 Helping the Reader: The Paratextual Elements in the Aëtian Placita in the Framework of Its Genre
Jaap Mansfeld
3 Irreducible Texts: The Implications for an Edition of the Aëtian Placita
David T. Runia
4 Heraclitus on Principles: A Stoic Lemma in Aëtius?
Max Bergamo
5 Presocratics and Presocratic Philosophy in Galen
Teun Tieleman
6 “Reputable Opinions” (endoxa) in Aristotle, Theophrastus, and Simplicius: Doxography or Endoxography?
Han Baltussen
7 Interpreting Parmenides of Elea in Antiquity: From Plato’s Parmenides to Simplicius’ Commentary on Aristotle’s Physics
Christoph Helmig
8 Greek Philosophers in Monastic Schools: Syriac Forms of Doxography
Yury Arzhanov
9 Doxography as Textbook: An Arabic Excerpt of Ps.-Plutarch’s Placita philosophorum
Ute Pietruschka
10 Not Everything That Looks Like a Doxography is One: The Philosophical Compilation in the Tehran MS Ketābḫāne-ye Markazī-ye Dānešgāh 2103
Elvira Wakelnig
11 Reporting the Dualists: al-Ṯanawiyya as a Doxological Category in Classical Kalām
David Bennett
12 Doxography and Philosophical Method: Avicenna’s Treatment of Presocratic Opinions
Andreas Lammer
13 Ibn Ṭufayl’s Use and Misuse of His Predecessors
Bethany Somma
14 A Case Study in Arabic Doxography: Šahrastānī’s Account of Pythagoras and Its Ismāʿīlī Background
Fedor Benevich
Index
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Doxography: Ends and Means
Andreas Lammer and Mareike Jas
1 Making Sense of Other Philosophers: Exegesis and Interpretation in Aristotle
Christian Pfeiffer
2 Helping the Reader: The Paratextual Elements in the Aëtian Placita in the Framework of Its Genre
Jaap Mansfeld
3 Irreducible Texts: The Implications for an Edition of the Aëtian Placita
David T. Runia
4 Heraclitus on Principles: A Stoic Lemma in Aëtius?
Max Bergamo
5 Presocratics and Presocratic Philosophy in Galen
Teun Tieleman
6 “Reputable Opinions” (endoxa) in Aristotle, Theophrastus, and Simplicius: Doxography or Endoxography?
Han Baltussen
7 Interpreting Parmenides of Elea in Antiquity: From Plato’s Parmenides to Simplicius’ Commentary on Aristotle’s Physics
Christoph Helmig
8 Greek Philosophers in Monastic Schools: Syriac Forms of Doxography
Yury Arzhanov
9 Doxography as Textbook: An Arabic Excerpt of Ps.-Plutarch’s Placita philosophorum
Ute Pietruschka
10 Not Everything That Looks Like a Doxography is One: The Philosophical Compilation in the Tehran MS Ketābḫāne-ye Markazī-ye Dānešgāh 2103
Elvira Wakelnig
11 Reporting the Dualists: al-Ṯanawiyya as a Doxological Category in Classical Kalām
David Bennett
12 Doxography and Philosophical Method: Avicenna’s Treatment of Presocratic Opinions
Andreas Lammer
13 Ibn Ṭufayl’s Use and Misuse of His Predecessors
Bethany Somma
14 A Case Study in Arabic Doxography: Šahrastānī’s Account of Pythagoras and Its Ismāʿīlī Background
Fedor Benevich
Index
Anyone from the fields of philology (Greek, Syriac, Arabic) and philosophy as well as all interested in the transmission of knowledge and the history of philosophy and science.