The problem of the translation into Arabic of Greek philosophical terminology and in particular of the verb 'to be', was faced by Arabic-speaking philosophers well before by the modern linguists. They also elaborated on the conditioning that every natural language can operate in a completely unconscious way in the formulation of concepts. By analyzing the Arabic direct and indirect tradition of Metaphysics, Book Delta 7, in which Aristotle speaks of the different meanings of being, τὸ ὄν, this study tries to test the awareness of these problems in the early translators of Greek philosophical and scientific works, such as the Christian Ustat, a translator of the circle of al-Kindi. Some exemples are taken also from the subsequent generations of philosophers such as al-Farabi, Avicenna, and Averroes.

Il concetto di essere dall'Aristotele greco alla lingua araba.

MARTINI, CECILIA
2012-01-01

Abstract

The problem of the translation into Arabic of Greek philosophical terminology and in particular of the verb 'to be', was faced by Arabic-speaking philosophers well before by the modern linguists. They also elaborated on the conditioning that every natural language can operate in a completely unconscious way in the formulation of concepts. By analyzing the Arabic direct and indirect tradition of Metaphysics, Book Delta 7, in which Aristotle speaks of the different meanings of being, τὸ ὄν, this study tries to test the awareness of these problems in the early translators of Greek philosophical and scientific works, such as the Christian Ustat, a translator of the circle of al-Kindi. Some exemples are taken also from the subsequent generations of philosophers such as al-Farabi, Avicenna, and Averroes.
2012
Martini, Cecilia
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