Animals in Greek, Arabic, and Latin Philosophy /

Animals in Greek, Arabic, and Latin Philosophy /

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 v...

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Other Authors: Adamson, Peter (Editor), Tuominen, Miira (Editor)

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Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2026.

Series: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East ; 190.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2025.

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Classical Studies.
Middle East and Islamic Studies.

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Call Number: PA6373.F7

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Table of Contents:
  • 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-Fārābī on Theodicy and Venomous Animals
  • Kosta Gligorijevic
  • 8 Animal and Human Souls in the Overall Arrangement of the Cosmos
  • The Kindī-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-Jāḥiẓ's Book of Mules
  • Michael Payne
  • 11 The Problem of Animal Suffering in the Brethren of Purity and Abū Bakr al-Rāzī: The Muʿtazilite Context
  • Janne Mattila
  • 12 Classes of Animals in al-Fārābī's Works
  • Nicolas Payen
  • 13 Demarcating Animals from Plants: Abū al-Ḥassan al-'Āmirī in Dialogue with Avicenna
  • Ruizhi Ma
  • 14 Something in the Milk: Ibn Abī l-Ashʿath 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 Qābūs Ibn Wushmgir
  • Behnam Khodanpah
  • 16 Ibn Mattawayh's (fl. Fifth/Eleventh Century) "Chapter on Life" ( al-Kalām fī l-ḥayā ) 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 Bājja on the Foundations of the Science of Animals
  • Bahodir Musametov
  • 19 "Unto Him Thou Shalt All Return": The Resurrection of Animals in Ṣadr al-Dīn Shīrāzī
  • 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.