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Book SynopsisThis 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.
Table of ContentsPreface 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
