Averroes on Plato's "Republic"

ISBN: 9780801471650 出版年：2014 页码：208 Averroes Cornell University Press

"In one fashion or another, the question with which this introduction begins is a question for every serious reader of Plato'sspeaks to his own time and to his own situation.... Perhaps the greatest use he makes of theis to understand better theitself.... It is fair to say that in deciding to paraphrase theby the twelfth-century Andalusian Muslim philosopher, Abu'l-Walid Muhammad Ibn Ahmad Ibn Rushd, also know by his his Latinized name, Averroes. This work played a major role in both the transmission and the adaptation of the Platonic tradition in the West. In a closely argued critical introduction, Ralph Lerner addresses several of the most important problems raised by the work.