Al-Farabi, Syllogism: An Abridgement of Aristotle’s Prior Analytics

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Dr Saloua Chatti (University of Tunis, Tunisia) Dr Wilfrid Hodges (Queen Mary, University of London, UK)

Al-Farabi, Syllogism

An Abridgement of Aristotle’s Prior Analytics

Dr Saloua Chatti (University of Tunis, Tunisia), Dr Wilfrid Hodges (Queen Mary, University of London, UK)

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English

Bloomsbury Academic
21 April 2022

Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500; Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology; Philosophy: logic; Philosophy of mind

Series: Ancient Commentators on Aristotle

The philosopher Abu Nasr al-Farabi (c. 870-c. 950 CE) is a key Arabic intermediary figure. He knew Aristotle, and in particular Aristotle’s logic, through Greek Neoplatonist interpretations translated into Arabic via Syriac and possibly Persian. For example, he revised a general description of Aristotle’s logic by the 6th century Paul the Persian, and further influenced famous later philosophers and theologians writing in Arabic in the 11th to 12th centuries: Avicenna, Al-Ghazali, Avempace and Averroes. Averroes’ reports on Farabi were subsequently transmitted to the West in Latin translation. This book is an abridgement of Aristotle’s Prior Analytics, rather than a commentary on successive passages. In it Farabi discusses Aristotle’s invention, the syllogism, and aims to codify the deductively valid arguments in all disciplines.

He describes Aristotle’s categorical syllogisms in detail; these are syllogisms with premises such as ‘Every A is a B’ and ‘No A is a B’. He adds a discussion of how categorical syllogisms can codify arguments by induction from known examples or by analogy, and also some kinds of theological argument from perceived facts to conclusions lying beyond perception. He also describes post-Aristotelian hypothetical syllogisms, which draw conclusions from premises such as ‘If P then Q’ and ‘Either P or Q’. His treatment of categorical syllogisms is one of the first to recognise logically productive pairs of premises by using ‘conditions of productivity’, a device that had appeared in the Greek Philoponus in 6th century Alexandria.

Edited by: Dr Saloua Chatti (University of Tunis Tunisia), Dr Wilfrid Hodges (Queen Mary, University of London, UK)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781350194892
ISBN 10: 1350194891
Series: Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 21 April 2022
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Preface Richard Sorabji Conventions Acknowledgements Introduction Wilfrid Hodges 1. A Brief Guide to Categorical Syllogisms 2. Al-Farabi and his Writings 3. The Book Syllogism Textual Emendations Translation Notes Bibliography English-Arabic-Greek Glossary Arabic-English Index Index of Passages from Aristotle Subject Index

Saloua Chatti is former Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tunis, Tunisia. Wilfrid Hodges is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at Queen Mary, University of London, UK.