Received Opinions: Doxography in Antiquity and the Islamic World (Philosophia Antiqua, 160)

This volume brings together, for the first time, experts on Greek, Syriac, and Arabic traditions of doxography, in order to investigate and present shared contexts and questions, and to initiate future collaboration among the fields of classics, Arabic studies, and the history of philosophy. ‎Contents ‎Preface ‎Notes on Contributors ‎Introduction. Doxography: Ends and Means (Lammer and Jas) ‎Chapter 1. Making Sense of Other Philosophers: Exegesis and Interpretation in Aristotle (Pfeiffer) ‎Chapter 2. Helping the Reader: The Paratextual Elements in the Placita in the Context of their Genre (Mansfeld) ‎Chapter 3. Irreducible Texts: The Implications for an Edition of the Aëtian Placita (Runia) ‎Chapter 4. Heraclitus on Principles: A Stoic Lemma in Aëtius? (Bergamo) ‎Chapter 5. Presocratics and Presocratic Philosophy in Galen (Tieleman) ‎Chapter 6. “Reputable Opinions” (endoxa) in Aristotle, Theophrastus, and Simplicius: Doxography or Endoxography? (Baltussen) ‎Chapter 7. Interpreting Parmenides of Elea in Antiquity: From Plato’s Parmenides to Simplicius’ Commentary on Aristotle’s Physics (Helmig) ‎Chapter 8. Greek Philosophers in Monastic Schools: Syriac Forms of Doxography (Arzhanov) ‎Chapter 9. Doxography as Textbook: An Arabic Excerpt of Ps.-Plutarch’s Placita philosophorum (Pietruschka) ‎Chapter 10. Not Everything That Looks Like a Doxography is One: The Philosophical Compilation in the Tehran MS Ketābḫāne-ye Markazī-ye Dānešgāh 2103 (Wakelnig) ‎Chapter 11. Reporting the Dualists: al-Ṯanawiyya as a Doxological Category in Classical Kalām (Bennett) ‎Chapter 12. Doxography and Philosophical Method: Avicenna’s Treatment of Presocratic Opinions (Lammer) ‎Chapter 13. Ibn Ṭufayl’s Use and Misuse of His Predecessors (Somma) ‎Chapter 14. A Case Study in Arabic Doxography: Šahrastānī’s Account of Pythagoras and Its Ismāʿīlī Background (Benevich) ‎Index nominum ‎Index rerum "This volume--the proceedings of a 2018 conference at LMU Munich funded by Fritz Thyssen Stiftung--brings together, for the first time, experts on Greek, Syriac, and Arabic traditions of doxography. Fourteen contributions provide new insight into the state of the art in contemporary research on the widespread phenomenon of doxography. Together they demonstrate that Greek, Syriac, and Arabic forms of doxography share common features and raise related questions in such a way that current research would benefit from interdisciplinary exchange among colleagues from various disciplines, such as classics, Arabic studies, and the history of philosophy."-- Provided by publisher 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.