Albert the Great and his Arabic Sources. Medieval Science between Inheritance and Emergence

Hardback, 473 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:2 tables b/w., Language: English. ISBN 9782503609379. Summary Albert the Great created a new programme of science in the thirteenth-century Latin world by extensively commenting upon Aristotle's philosophical corpus and supplementing that corpus with works of his own wherever he saw gaps. What were the preconditions for the emergence of such a comprehensively new scientific agenda and its centuries of success at the University of Paris and Dominican study houses across Europe? One answer is found in the rich Arabic sources that Albert had at his disposal in Latin translation, including Alfarabi, Avicenna, and Averroes, as well as Isaac Israeli, Maimonides, and more. Never before in the history of Albert scholarship has there been a collected volume that examines this inheritance from the Arabic-speaking lands in its role as a major condition for the emergence of Albert's scientific programme. In the present volume, twelve leading scholars in the field offer studies that range from Albert's early theological works to his late philosophical writings. The volume focuses on the teachings that Albert actively inherited from the Arabic sources, the ways in which he creatively implemented those teachings into his scientific corpus, and the effects that these implementations had on his own programmatic take on scientia. TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter 1. Introduction: Albert's Philosophical scientia: Origins, Geneses, Emergences KATJA KRAUSE AND RICHARD C. TAYLOR Chapter 2. Albert the Great's Definition of the Good: Its Arabic Origins and Its Latin Transformations JORGE USCATESCU BARRÓN Chapter 3. Albert the Great and Two Momentous Early Misconstruals in the Interpretation of Averroes RICHARD C. TAYLOR Chapter 4. Albert's Invocations of Averroes in His Account in Super Ethica of the Relation between Philosophical and Theological Ethics MARTIN J. TRACEY Chapter 5. Albert and 'the Arabs': On the Eternity of Movement JOSEP PUIG MONTADA Chapter 6. Albert the Great's Treatment of Avicenna and Averroes on a Universal Flood and the Regeneration of Species IRVEN M. RESNICK Chapter 7. Against Averroes's Naturalism: The Generation of Material Substances in Albert the Great's De generatione et corruptione and Meteorologica IV ADAM TAKAHASHI Chapter 8. Albert the Great's Use of Averroes in His Digressions on Human Intellectual Knowledge (De anima III.3.8-11) LUIS XAVIER LÓPEZ-FARJEAT Chapter 9. Is There an Intellectual Memory in the Individual Human Soul? Albert the Great between Avicenna and Aquinas JÖRN MÜLLER Chapter 10. What Makes a Genius? Albert the Great on the Roots of Scientific Aptitude HENRYK ANZULEWICZ Chapter 11. Source Mining: Arabic Natural Philosophy and experientia in Albert the Great's Scientific Practices KATJA KRAUSE Chapter 12. Inheritance and Emergence of Transcendentals: Albert the Great between Avicenna and Averroes on First Universals AMOS BERTOLACCI Chapter 13. The Emanation Scheme of Albert the Great and the Questions of Divine Free Will and Mediated Creation DAVID TWETTEN Index of Subjects and Names Index of Books, Ancient and Premodern 0 g.…