Alfarabi and the Rhetoric: The Cave Revisited
1970; Brill; Volume: 15; Issue: 1-2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1163/156852870x00062
ISSN1568-5284
Autores Tópico(s)Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies
ResumoThe division of Aristotle's works according to the distinctioin ?ropeZv npxrCtv nOmLv and the acceptance of the Rhetoric as a treatise of productive philosophy have, since the Bekker edition, gained widespread approbation. In the Orient, on the other hand, as Margoliouth and Immisch pointed out, the Rhetoric and the Poetics had long been considered parts of the Organon.1 More recently, Tkatsch's monumental study of the Arabic Poetics likewise treated the erweiterten as an exclusively Eastern arrangement.2 In 1934, however, Walzer's brilliant comparison of Alfarabi's views on poetry with those of Ammonius Neoplatonicus, Olympiodorus, Philoponus and Elias demonstrated the Greek origin of the extended Organon.3 This paper reviews the evidence for the Alexandrian inclusion of the Rhetoric in the Organon and its unique elaboration in a hitherto neglected commentary of Alfarabi.
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