180176 SE The Arab Nicomachean Ethics (2021W)
Continuous assessment of course work
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Registration/Deregistration
Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).
- Registration is open from Fr 10.09.2021 09:00 to Th 16.09.2021 10:00
- Registration is open from Fr 24.09.2021 09:00 to Th 30.09.2021 10:00
- Deregistration possible until Sa 23.10.2021 23:59
Details
max. 25 participants
Language: German
Lecturers
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
The lecture will take place on Zoom. The participants will receive the invitation closer to the beginning of the first lecture.
- Thursday 14.10. 16:45 - 18:15 Digital
- Thursday 21.10. 16:45 - 18:15 Digital
- Thursday 28.10. 16:45 - 18:15 Digital
- Thursday 04.11. 16:45 - 18:15 Digital
- Thursday 11.11. 16:45 - 18:15 Digital
- Thursday 18.11. 16:45 - 18:15 Digital
- Thursday 25.11. 16:45 - 18:15 Digital
- Thursday 02.12. 16:45 - 18:15 Digital
- Thursday 09.12. 16:45 - 18:15 Digital
- Thursday 16.12. 16:45 - 18:15 Digital
- Thursday 13.01. 16:45 - 18:15 Digital
- Thursday 20.01. 16:45 - 18:15 Digital
- Thursday 27.01. 16:45 - 18:15 Digital
Information
Aims, contents and method of the course
Assessment and permitted materials
Attendance (max. two unexcused absences); weekly writing and submission of an abstract (half page) about the literature in question and formulation of a minimum of one question; a presentation (20 minutes) on the topic of one unit; submission of a seminar paper (approx. 15 pages, Times New Roman, 12 points, line spacing 1.5), submission by 02/11/2022; the final grade consists of the overall assessment of the mentioned parts;
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
Evaluation of the partial achievements:
abstracts and questions (30%)
lecture / presentation (30%)
seminar paper (40%)All partial achievements must have been performed and graded positively to achieve a positive final grade.Grade 1 = 90-100 points (very good)
Grade 2 = 77-89 points (good)
Grade 3 = 64-76 points (satisfactory)
Grade 4 = 51-63 points (adequate)
Grade 5 = 0-50 points (inadequate)
abstracts and questions (30%)
lecture / presentation (30%)
seminar paper (40%)All partial achievements must have been performed and graded positively to achieve a positive final grade.Grade 1 = 90-100 points (very good)
Grade 2 = 77-89 points (good)
Grade 3 = 64-76 points (satisfactory)
Grade 4 = 51-63 points (adequate)
Grade 5 = 0-50 points (inadequate)
Examination topics
The literature discussed in the seminar.
Reading list
Primary literature
Akasoy, Anna and Alexander Fidora (eds.), and Douglas Morton Dunlop (2005): The Arabic Version of the Nicomachean Ethics, Leiden: Brill.Secondary literature
Akasoy, Anna (2013): "The Arabic and Islamic reception of the Nicomachean Ethics", in J. Miller (ed.), The Reception of Aristotle's Ethics, Cambridge, 85-106.
Berman, Lawrence (1962): "A note on the Added Seventh Book of the Nicomachean Ethics in Arabic", JAOS, 82 555-556.
Bouhafa, Feriel (2019): "Ethics and Fiqh in al-Fārābī’s Philosophy", in Peter Adamson (ed.), Philosophy and Jurisprudence in the Islamic World, Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 11-28.
D’Ancona, Christina (2004): "Greek into Arabic", in Peter Adamson and Richard Taylor (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy, Cambridge, 10-31.
Dunlop, D. M. (1954): "Introduction", in Anna Akasoy, and Alexander Fidora: The Arabic Version of the Nicomachean Ethics, Leiden: Brill, 2005, 1-26.
Fink, Jakob Leth (ed.) (2019): Phantasia in Aristotle's Ethics: Reception in the Arabic, Greek, Hebrew and Latin Traditions, Bloomsbury.
Germann, Nadja (2015): "Logic as the Path to Happiness: Al-Fārābī and the Divisions of the Sciences", in Pasquale Porro, The Pleasure of Knowledge, Brepols, 15-30.
Gutas, Dimitri (2012): "Populäre Ethik und Praktische Politik", in Ulrich Rudolph (ed.) PhidiW, Basel: Schwabe, 258-479.
Harvey, Steven and Frédérique Woerther (2014): Averroes’ Middle Commentary on Book I of the Nicomachean Ethics, Oriens 42, 254-287.
Harvey, Warren Zev (2013): "Ethical Theories among Medieval Jewish Philosophers", in Elliot N. Dorff und Jonathan K. Crane (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Ethics and Morality, Oxford, 84-87.
Hayes, J., and Aristotelēs (2015): ‘The Arabic Reception of the Nicomachean Ethics’, in Aristotle and the Arabic Tradition, Ahmed Alwishah and Josh Hayes (eds.), Cambridge, 200-213.
Neria, Chaim Meir (2013): "AL-Fārābī’s Lost Commentary On The Ethics: New Textual Evidence", Arabic Sciences and Philosophy, 23(1), 69-99.
Omar, Mohd. Nasir (2003): Christian and Muslim ethics: a study of how to attain happiness as reflected in the works on Tahdhib Al-Akhlaq by Yahya Ibn 'Adi (d. 974) and Miskawayh (d. 1030), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka.
Regnier, Daniel (2019): "Imagination in the Theology of Aristotle", Journal of the History of Philosophy 57, no. 2, 181-204.
Schmidt, Ernst A. and Manfred Ullmann (2012): Aristoteles in Fes. Zum Wert der arab. Überlieferung der Nikomachischen Ethik für die Kritik des griechischen Textes, Schriften der phil.-hist. Klasse der Heidelberger Akad. d. Wissenschaften, Bd. 49, Heidelberg.
Ullmann, Manfred (2012): Die Nikomachische Ethik Des Aristoteles in Arabischer Übersetzung, 2 Bände: 1. Wortschatz, 2. Überlieferung - Textkritik – Grammatik, Wiesbaden, 13-29 (1), 15-19 (2).
Wisnovsky, Robert (2011): "Towards a Natural-History Model of Philosophical Change: Greek into Arabic, Arabic into Latin, and Arabic into Arabic", in idem. (ed.), Vehicles of Transmission, Translation, and Transformation in Medieval Textual Culture, 143–57.
Woerther, F. (2018): Averroes’ Goals in the Paraphrase (Middle Commentary) of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, in P. Adamson and M. Di Giovanni (eds.), Interpreting Averroes: Critical Essays, Cambridge, 218-236.Further reading and reference works
Adamson, Peter and Richard C. Taylor (eds.) (2005): The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy, Cambridge, xv-xviii.
Rudolph, Ulrich (ed.) u. Mitarbeit v. Renate Würsch (2012): Philosophie in der islamischen Welt I, 8.-10. Jahrhundert, Basel: Schwabe.Online-resources
Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition: https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/browse/encyclopaedia-of-islam-2.
Encyclopaedia of Islam, Third Edition: https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/browse/encyclopaedia-of-islam-3.
History of Philosophy without any gaps: https://historyofphilosophy.net/.The complete bibliography will be announced at the beginning of the course.
Akasoy, Anna and Alexander Fidora (eds.), and Douglas Morton Dunlop (2005): The Arabic Version of the Nicomachean Ethics, Leiden: Brill.Secondary literature
Akasoy, Anna (2013): "The Arabic and Islamic reception of the Nicomachean Ethics", in J. Miller (ed.), The Reception of Aristotle's Ethics, Cambridge, 85-106.
Berman, Lawrence (1962): "A note on the Added Seventh Book of the Nicomachean Ethics in Arabic", JAOS, 82 555-556.
Bouhafa, Feriel (2019): "Ethics and Fiqh in al-Fārābī’s Philosophy", in Peter Adamson (ed.), Philosophy and Jurisprudence in the Islamic World, Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 11-28.
D’Ancona, Christina (2004): "Greek into Arabic", in Peter Adamson and Richard Taylor (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy, Cambridge, 10-31.
Dunlop, D. M. (1954): "Introduction", in Anna Akasoy, and Alexander Fidora: The Arabic Version of the Nicomachean Ethics, Leiden: Brill, 2005, 1-26.
Fink, Jakob Leth (ed.) (2019): Phantasia in Aristotle's Ethics: Reception in the Arabic, Greek, Hebrew and Latin Traditions, Bloomsbury.
Germann, Nadja (2015): "Logic as the Path to Happiness: Al-Fārābī and the Divisions of the Sciences", in Pasquale Porro, The Pleasure of Knowledge, Brepols, 15-30.
Gutas, Dimitri (2012): "Populäre Ethik und Praktische Politik", in Ulrich Rudolph (ed.) PhidiW, Basel: Schwabe, 258-479.
Harvey, Steven and Frédérique Woerther (2014): Averroes’ Middle Commentary on Book I of the Nicomachean Ethics, Oriens 42, 254-287.
Harvey, Warren Zev (2013): "Ethical Theories among Medieval Jewish Philosophers", in Elliot N. Dorff und Jonathan K. Crane (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Ethics and Morality, Oxford, 84-87.
Hayes, J., and Aristotelēs (2015): ‘The Arabic Reception of the Nicomachean Ethics’, in Aristotle and the Arabic Tradition, Ahmed Alwishah and Josh Hayes (eds.), Cambridge, 200-213.
Neria, Chaim Meir (2013): "AL-Fārābī’s Lost Commentary On The Ethics: New Textual Evidence", Arabic Sciences and Philosophy, 23(1), 69-99.
Omar, Mohd. Nasir (2003): Christian and Muslim ethics: a study of how to attain happiness as reflected in the works on Tahdhib Al-Akhlaq by Yahya Ibn 'Adi (d. 974) and Miskawayh (d. 1030), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka.
Regnier, Daniel (2019): "Imagination in the Theology of Aristotle", Journal of the History of Philosophy 57, no. 2, 181-204.
Schmidt, Ernst A. and Manfred Ullmann (2012): Aristoteles in Fes. Zum Wert der arab. Überlieferung der Nikomachischen Ethik für die Kritik des griechischen Textes, Schriften der phil.-hist. Klasse der Heidelberger Akad. d. Wissenschaften, Bd. 49, Heidelberg.
Ullmann, Manfred (2012): Die Nikomachische Ethik Des Aristoteles in Arabischer Übersetzung, 2 Bände: 1. Wortschatz, 2. Überlieferung - Textkritik – Grammatik, Wiesbaden, 13-29 (1), 15-19 (2).
Wisnovsky, Robert (2011): "Towards a Natural-History Model of Philosophical Change: Greek into Arabic, Arabic into Latin, and Arabic into Arabic", in idem. (ed.), Vehicles of Transmission, Translation, and Transformation in Medieval Textual Culture, 143–57.
Woerther, F. (2018): Averroes’ Goals in the Paraphrase (Middle Commentary) of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, in P. Adamson and M. Di Giovanni (eds.), Interpreting Averroes: Critical Essays, Cambridge, 218-236.Further reading and reference works
Adamson, Peter and Richard C. Taylor (eds.) (2005): The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy, Cambridge, xv-xviii.
Rudolph, Ulrich (ed.) u. Mitarbeit v. Renate Würsch (2012): Philosophie in der islamischen Welt I, 8.-10. Jahrhundert, Basel: Schwabe.Online-resources
Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition: https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/browse/encyclopaedia-of-islam-2.
Encyclopaedia of Islam, Third Edition: https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/browse/encyclopaedia-of-islam-3.
History of Philosophy without any gaps: https://historyofphilosophy.net/.The complete bibliography will be announced at the beginning of the course.
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Last modified: Fr 12.05.2023 00:18
A particular variation of the Arabic Nicomachean Ethics is an additional seventh book placed between the sixth and the seventh book of the Greek version. Thus, the Arabic Nicomachean Ethics counts at least eleven books. Other Arabic sources mention even twelve books, like the Fihrist (The List), a comprehensive book listing Arabic writings and their authors of all genres produced until the late 10th century. As there is peculiarly only one manuscript transmitted to our times and only discovered in the fifties of the last century, the research about the Arabic Nicomachean Ethics is still very much in its infancy. There were two translators. Books I-IV were translated by Isḥāq ibn Ḥunayn and books V-X by Eustathios. The latter are earlier translated and include the seventh book, integrating elements from the Aristotelian, Neoplatonic, and Arabian ethical perspectives. Though, numerous questions about the reception and reading of the Arabic Nicomachean Ethics are open and even more to be discovered.
This seminar aims at triggering curiosity and further research about a fascinating book, which provides the establishment of specific Arabic conceptions of the Aristotelian moral philosophy. Yet, these conceptions are linked not only to political but similarly to legal and medical-ethical thought in the Islamicate world of the Middle Ages. Finally, a curiosity for Arabic but no knowledge of Arabic is needed to participate in this seminar.