[The Incoherence of the Incoherence]. Eutyci Augustini Niphi Philothei Suessani in libru[m] destructio desdtructionum Averrois Comentarii, quos adhibita omni lucerna nitidos, & à quacunque macula ieiunos comperies. Eiusdem Augustini Codicillus de Sensu agente.

AVERROES [IBN RUSHD] & NIFO, Agostino.

Edité par Lugduni LyonApud Jacobum Giunctam ., 1542

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8vo. (16 x 10.5 cm). ll.346+[1, index]. Nineteenth-century continental green morocco spine over marbled boards, spine with raised bands and gilt lettering to to panels, marbled endpapers, edges dyed blue. Woodcut printer's device to title-page, woodcut initials throughout. Ex libris Leonard Knight Elmhirst (1893-1974), with his armorial bookplate to front pastedown. Elmhirst was a British philanthropist and agronomist who worked extensively in India. He co-founded with his wife, Dorothy, the Dartington Hall project in progressive education and rural reconstruction. Tiny hole to upper right of title-page, some light rubbing to exterior and bumping to corners, generally a very good clean copy. 'The Incoherence of the Incoherence' (Tahafut al-tahafut in Arabic) is one of the great classics of Muslim as well as of Western philosophy, demonstrating that rational thought and theology are not at odds with each other. In this, his possibly most famous work, Ibn Rushd reacted to al-Ghazali's 'Tahafut al-Falasifa' ('The Incoherence of the Philosophers'), which had dominated Muslim philosophical thinking for decades: al-Ghazali's late 11th-century treatise had denounced Ibn Sina and al-Farabi for their Greek-inflected metaphysics, which he had found contrary to Islam. Ibn Rushd, himself an avowed Aristotelian, refuted Al-Ghazali's book section by section, showing that there was in fact no conflict between Greek logic and the Qur'an. Ibn Rushd's apology of Aristotelian philosophy, cleverly named "The Incoherence of the Incoherence", was translated from Arabic into Latin in 1328 by the Jewish philosopher Kalonymus ben Kalonymus at the request of King Robert the Wise of Naples, and the translation was first published in 1497 by Locatellus in Venice, as one of Kalonymus' only efforts to see print. This 16th-century edition includes Latin text of 'The Incoherence of the Incoherence', originally published in Venice in a folio edition in 1497. The Aristotelian scholar Eutycus Augustine Niphus was introduced to the text of Averroes' work by his friend the philosopher Jerome Bernardus of Venice and saw that it was 'full of benefit'. Under pressure from his friend, Niphus agreed to present his own interpretation, which in the text follows a series of contentions between Averroes and his fellow philosopher Algazel. A short treatise 'De Sensu agente' on another Aristotelian topics and written by Niphus in 1495 concludes this book. Rare: Just one copy sourced in Rare Book Hub, and 14 copies traced in OCLC, including just one copy in the UK at the University of Manchester.

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• Titre: [The Incoherence of the Incoherence]. Eutyci Augustini Niphi Philothei Suessani in libru[m] destructio desdtructionum Averrois Comentarii, quos adhibita omni lucerna nitidos, & à quacunque macula ieiunos comperies. Eiusdem Augustini Codicillus de Sensu agente.
• Éditeur: Lugduni LyonApud Jacobum Giunctam .
• Date de parution: 1542
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
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