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Galen and the Arabic Reception of Plato's Timaeus

Autor Aileen R. Das
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 9 mar 2022
This first full-length study of the Arabic reception of Plato's Timaeus considers the role of Galen of Pergamum (129–c. 216 CE) in shaping medieval perceptions of the text as transgressing disciplinary norms. It argues that Galen appealed to the entangled cosmological scheme of the dialogue, where different relations connect the body, soul, and cosmos, to expand the boundaries of medicine in his pursuit for epistemic authority – the right to define and explain natural reality. Aileen Das situates Galen's work on disciplinary boundaries in the context of medicine's ancient rivalry with philosophy, whose professionals were long seen as superior knowers of the cosmos vis-à-vis doctors. Her case studies show how Galen and four of the most important Christian, Muslim, and Jewish thinkers in the Arabic Middle Ages creatively interpreted key doctrines from the Timaeus to reimagine medicine and philosophy as well as their own intellectual identities.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781108730730
ISBN-10: 1108730736
Pagini: 257
Ilustrații: Worked examples or Exercises; Worked examples or Exercises
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Ediția:Nouă
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Locul publicării:Cambridge, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Introduction. Plato's Timaeus as universal text; 1. Galen and the 'medical' Timaeus; 2. From the heavens to the body: Ḥunayn's ophthalmology; 3. Al-Rāzī: the 'Arab Galen' and his Plato, new disciplinary ideals; 4. Laying down the law: Avicenna and his medical project; 5. Uprooting the Timaeus: Maimonides and the re-medicalization of Galenism; Conclusion. Medicine disciplined.

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Examines how Galen and his medieval Arabic successors invoke Plato's Timaeus to reimagine medicine and philosophy.