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Buch, Englisch, Band 190, 650 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East

Animals in Greek, Arabic, and Latin Philosophy


Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-74412-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 190, 650 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East

ISBN: 978-90-04-74412-7
Verlag: Brill


Non-human animals are a topic of intense philosophical interest in the modern day. It is often supposed that this is a recent development, but in fact pre-modern philosophers were intensely interested in animals. Aristotle initiated a long-standing zoological tradition, but it was only part of the vast literature on animals in antiquity and the middle ages. To do it justice, this book gathers twenty-five studies of animals in Greek, Arabic, and Latin philosophy. Major themes include the cognitive capacities of animals, the difference between humans and animals and the question of how humans should treat animals, as well as God’s relationship towards animals, animal diet and mating, language among animals, animal suffering, animals as ethical exemplars, and reincarnation.

Contributors

Peter Adamson, Tommaso Alpina, Hanif Amin Beidokhti, Zack Candy, Sophia M. Connell, Racha el-Omari, Kosta Gligorijevic, Guy Guldentops, Rotraud Hansberger, Paloma Hernández–Rubio, Tua Korhonen, Behnam Khodanpah, Philip Line, Thornton Lockwood, Ruizhi Ma, Janne Mattila, Robert Mayhew, Michele Meroni, Bahodir Musametov, Giulio Navarra, Marilù Papandreou, Nicolas Payen, Michael Payne, Jens-Ole Schmitt, John Skalko, and Miira Tuominen.

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Introduction Peter Adamson and Miira Tuominen

1 Animals “as if”: Homeric and Oppianic Animal Similes in the Context of Philosophical Discussion on Animals Tua Korhonen

2 Aristotle on Animal Intelligence: A Difference in Degree or by Analogy? Miira Tuominen

3 Aristotle on Human Use of Non-human Animals Sophia M. Connell

4 Non-human Animals in the Nicomachean and Eudemian Ethics Thornton Lockwood

5 Builders and Weavers of the Animal Kingdom: Non-human Poiêsis in Aristotle and the Ancient Commentators Marilù Papandreou

6 The Divine Enema-Inventing Egyptian Ibis Robert Mayhew

7 Galen, Priscian, and al-Farabi on Theodicy and Venomous Animals Kosta Gligorijevic

8 Animal and Human Souls in the Overall Arrangement of the Cosmos

The Kindi-Circle’s Adaptation of Alexander of Aphrodisias’ De providentia as a Case Study of the Nascent “Arabic Aristotelianism” Giulio Navarra

9 Sensing Dimly in the Light of Reason? Downgrading Animal Perception in Parts of the Arabic Aristotelian Tradition Rotraud Hansberger

10 Debating Hybridity in al-Ja?i?’s Book of Mules Michael Payne

11 The Problem of Animal Suffering in the Brethren of Purity and Abu Bakr al-Razi: The Mu?tazilite Context Janne Mattila

12 Classes of Animals in al-Farabi’s Works Nicolas Payen

13 Demarcating Animals from Plants: Abu al-?assan al-‘Amiri in Dialogue with Avicenna Ruizhi Ma

14 Something in the Milk: Ibn Abi l-Ash?ath on the Content and Function of Milk for Animals and Humans Jens-Ole Schmitt

15 Deconstructing the Idea of the Human as the Noblest Animal: A Treatise by Qabus Ibn Wushmgir Behnam Khodanpah

16 Ibn Mattawayh’s (fl. Fifth/Eleventh Century) “Chapter on Life” (al-Kalam fi l-?aya) and Its Arguments from Animals

A Preliminary Introduction Racha el-Omari

17 Dogs Fear Mud, the Wooden Stick, and Other Things: Notes on Animal Emotions in Avicenna Tommaso Alpina

18 Ibn Bajja on the Foundations of the Science of Animals Bahodir Musametov

19 “Unto Him Thou Shalt All Return”: The Resurrection of Animals in ?adr al-Din Shirazi Hanif Amin Beidokhti

20 Political Allegories or Moral Exemplars? The Role of Animals in Petrus Alfonsi’s Disciplina Clericalis and Its Medieval English Reception Zack Candy

21 Dicit Commentator quod cogitativa in nobis perfectior est quam aestimativa in brutis: How the Latin Averroes Came to Believe in Avicenna’s Estimative Power Michele Meroni

22 The Irrational Language: Albert the Great on the Perception and Language of Pygmies Paloma Hernández-Rubio

23 Can Animals Count? How Might Aquinas Explain Recent Cases of Animals Cognizing Quantities or Numbers? John Skalko

24 “Loving Animals Has Never Prevented Me from Killing Them”: Later Medieval Scholastics on Moral Behavior toward Non-human Animals Guy Guldentops

25 “A Dog Must Know Almost Everything”: The Dog in Medieval European Philosophy and Practical Treatises Philip Line

Index


Peter Adamson, Ph.D. (2000), University of Notre Dame, is Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy at the LMU in Munich. He is the author of Al-Kindi and Al-Razi in the series “Great Medieval Thinkers” and the book series A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps.

Miira Tuominen, Ph.D. (2002), University of Helsinki, is Associate Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at Stockholm University. She has published articles, books and edited volumes mainly on Platonic-Aristotelian philosophy, including Living with Justice: A Philosophical Study of Porphyry’s On Abstinence (2025).

Contributors

Peter Adamson, Tommaso Alpina, Hanif Amin Beidokhti, Zack Candy, Sophia M. Connell, Racha el-Omari, Kosta Gligorijevic, Guy Guldentops, Rotraud Hansberger, Paloma Hernández–Rubio, Tua Korhonen, Behnam Khodanpah, Philip Line, Thornton Lockwood, Ruizhi Ma, Janne Mattila, Robert Mayhew, Michele Meroni, Bahodir Musametov, Giulio Navarra, Marilù Papandreou, Nicolas Payen, Michael Payne, Jens-Ole Schmitt, John Skalko, and Miira Tuominen.



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