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The Philosopher Responds : An Intellectual Correspondence from the Tenth Century

Questions and answers from two great philosophersWhy is laughter contagious? Why do mountains exist? Why do we long for the past, even if it is scarred by suffering? Spanning a vast array of subjects that range from the philosophical to the theological, from the philological to the scientific, The P...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal:	al-Tawḥīdī, Abū Ḥayyān
Otros Autores:	Ree, Jonathan, Montgomery, James E., Vasalou, Sophia, Miskawayh, Abū ʿAlī
Formato:	Electrónico eBook
Idioma:	Inglés
Publicado:	New York : New York University Press, 2021.
Colección:	Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:	LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Middle Eastern. Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:	Texto completo

Tabla de Contenidos:

Cover
THE PHILOSOPHER RESPONDS
Letter from the General Editor
ABOUT THIS PAPERBACK
Title
Copyright
CONTENTS
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Map: Buyid and Neighboring Lands
Note on the Text
Notes to the Introduction
THE PHILOSOPHER RESPONDS
On the differences between a number of similar words
On why people commend the keeping of secrets yet still disclose them
On why certain names are more pleasing than others
On why people preach renunciation but do not practice it
on reasons, causes, time, and place
On why people seek worldly goods through knowledge but do not seek knowledge through worldly goods
On why people long for the past
On why men of knowledge tend to be conceited
On why people are sometimes ashamed and sometimes proud of wrongdoing
on the meaning of shame
On why people claim to have knowledge they lack
On why it pleases people when others ascribe good qualities to them
On why it is bad to praise people in their presence and good to praise them in their absence
On why people want to know what others say about them in their absence
On why people disapprove of young people who act as if they were older
On why mean people tend to be mild-tempered and generous people volatile
On why people need to acquire knowledge but not ignorance
On why people who provoke admiration also feel wonder at themselves
on the nature of wonder
on describing and knowing God
On why it is unseemly to eulogize long-time friends and acquaintances
On why blind people are often endowed with unusual powers
On why people say that nothing good comes from partnership
On why people use intermediaries despite the problems with partnership
On why people speak gladly about the needs of those they concern themselves with yet keep quiet about their own needs
On why some people become famous after they die
On why men of virtue and reason feel envious toward their equals even though they know envy is blameworthy
On why we fear death but sometimes welcome it
On why thin people tend to be noble and fat people ignoble
On why short people tend to be crafty and tall people foolish
On why some people overstate and others understate their age
On why people end up loving particular months or days and why they form different conceptions of different days
On the meaning and origin of injustice
On the significance of a popular saying, and the meaning of certain words
On why relatives and kinfolk are prone to outbreaks of extreme hostility
On why people become angry when others impute evil to them
On why a person who is being talked about suddenly appears out of nowhere
on the nature of coincidences
On the meaning of certain ordinary and technical terms

The Philosopher Responds : An Intellectual Correspondence from the Tenth Century

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