Abstract
Inheritors of the Alexandrian and Athenian Hellenistic tradition, the Arabs drew from a Neoplatonized Aristotle systematized through different attributed works, among them, the Sirr al-asrār, the Secretum secretorum in the Latin translation in which some genuine Aristotle doctrines are blended with Platonic, Neoplatonic, Neopythagorean and Hermetic elements. Brought in as a letter from Aristotle to Alexander, one of its chapters provides a Neoplatonic explanation of the Universe: while claiming that God’s nature is a simple spiritual substance from which the rest of the creation arisen, man is viewed as the unifying element of all created essences.
Highlights
Resumen Herederos de la tradición helenística de las escuelas de Alejandría y Atenas, los árabes partieron de un Aristóteles neoplatonizado, sistematizado en diversas obras que le fueron atribuidas
Inheritors of the Alexandrian and Athenian Hellenistic tradition, the Arabs drew from a Neoplatonized Aristotle systematized through different attributed works, among them, the Sirr al-asrār, the Secretum secretorum in the Latin translation in which some genuine Aristotle doctrines are blended with Platonic, Neoplatonic, Neopythagorean and Hermetic elements
Brought in as a letter from Aristotle to Alexander, one of its chapters provides a Neoplatonic explanation of the Universe: while claiming that God’s nature is a simple spiritual substance from which the rest of the creation arisen, man is viewed as the unifying element of all created essences
Summary
Kitāb al-ŷambayn ra’y al-ḥakīmayn Aflāṭūn al-ilāhī wa-Arisṭuṭālīs (Armonía entre los sabios Platón el divino y Aristóteles), ed. en Al-Fārābī’s philosophischen Abhandlungen aus Londoner, Leidener und Berliner Handschriften, ed. Kitāb al-ŷambayn ra’y al-ḥakīmayn Aflāṭūn al-ilāhī wa-Arisṭuṭālīs (Armonía entre los sabios Platón el divino y Aristóteles), ed. En Al-Fārābī’s philosophischen Abhandlungen aus Londoner, Leidener und Berliner Handschriften, ed. Concordia entre el divino Platón y el sabio Aristóteles’, Pensamiento, 25 (1969) pp. L'harmonie entre les opinions des deux sages, le divin Platon et Aristote. L’armonia delle opinioni dei due sapienti, il divino Platone e Aristotele. Introduzione, testo arabo, traduzione e commento di C. Pisa: Edizioni Plus Pisa University Press, 2008
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