The philosopher responds: an intellectual correspondence from the tenth century
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Contents Letter from the General Editor / iii Foreword / xvi Acknowledgments / xxii Introduction / xxiii Map: Buyid and Neighboring Lands / xlix Note on the Text / 1 Notes to the Introduction / lv The Philosopher Responds / і On the differences between a number of similar words / 6 On why people commend the keeping of secrets yet still disclose them / 16 On why certain names are more pleasing than others / 20 On why people preach renunciation but do not practice it; on reasons, causes, time, and place / 24 On why people seek worldly goods through knowledge but do not seek knowledge through worldly goods / 33 On why people long for the past / 36 On why men of knowledge tend to be conceited /39 On why people are sometimes ashamed and sometimes proud of wrongdoing; on the meaning of shame / 40 On why people claim to have knowledge they lack / 42 On why it pleases people when others ascribe good qualities to them / 43 On why it is bad to praise people in their presence and good to praise them in their absence / 44
On why people want to know what others say about them in their absence / 45 On why people disapprove of young people who act as if they were older / 46 On why mean people tend to be mild-tempered and generous people volatile / 48 On why people need to acquire knowledge but not ignorance / 50 On why people who provoke admiration also feel wonder at themselves; on the nature of wonder; on describing and knowing God /52 On why it is unseemly to eulogize long-time friends and acquaintances /58 On why blind people are often endowed with unusual powers /59 On why people say that nothing good comes from partnership / 61 On why people use intermediaries despite the problems with partnership / 63 On why people speak gladly about the needs of those they concern themselves with yet keep quiet about their own needs / 65 On why some people become famous after they die / 66 On why men of virtue and reason feel envious toward their equals even though they know envy is blameworthy / 67 On why we fear death but sometimes welcome it / 69 On why thin people tend to be noble and fat people ignoble / 72 On why short people tend to be crafty and tall people foolish / 73 On why some people overstate and others understate their age / 74 On why people end up loving particular months or days and why they form different conceptions of different days / 76 On the meaning and origin of injustice / 79 On the significance of a popular saying, and the meaning of certain words / 83 On why relatives and kinfolk are prone to outbreaks of extreme hostility / 85 On why people become angry when others impute
evil to them / 86 On why a person who is being talked about suddenly appears out of nowhere; on the nature of coincidences / 87 On the meaning of certain ordinary and technical terms /89 viii I Contents
On the meaning of certain prepositional expressions concerning God / tot On the nature of the sense of familiarity we feel toward particular places and people /103 On why epilepsy is so hard to treat / 104 On why people are so enamored of ascetic individuals / 106 On why some people squander their money despite the harmful consequences this entails while others are miserly even though this gives them a bad name / 108 On why some people keep their affairs private while others broadcast them for all to hear / 109 On why self-praise is unseemly /109 On why people disparage avarice even though they’re avaricious; on the origin of avarice and generosity / 110 On why people blame treachery and praise fidelity even though treachery predominates among them / 113 On the origin of the customs of different nations / 114 On why people don’t grow young again after they’ve grown old / 114 On the benefit people derive from likening some things to others / 116 On why some dreams are true and others false / 117 On the nature of dreams / 119 On why friendship arises between apparently dissimilar individuals / 121 On the definition and nature of knowledge /125 On why people make apparently false statements when expressing admiration / 130 On why people take pleasure in contemplating beautiful forms / 131 On why people are more adept at counseling others than at managing their own affairs / 134 On why the sight of open wounds provokes horror and fascination / 135 On why people love the present world; on whether the religious Law can conflict with nature / 138 On why people take their own lives
/ 140 On a philosophical puzzle relating to the act of suicide / X42 On moral change and acting out of character /144 On the meaning of a certain saying concerning God’s beneficence / 145 Contents | ix
On why noble-minded people love cleanliness / 148 On the merits of singing versus playing musical instruments / 151 On why some people master different subjects more easily than others / 153 On the nature of physiognomy /156 On why people covet things denied to them / 161 On why people inquire into what will happen in the future /163 On the influence of companions on a person’s character and on the benefits of companionship / 165 On why people scorn certain forms of ostentatious demeanor and why individuals aren’t simply allowed to do as they please / 167 On what the soul seeks in this world and on the nature of human beings / 168 On the nature and attributes of God / 170 On why people experience fear in the absence of an apparent cause / 171 On why people fly into a rage when they can’t open a lock / 172 On why people with small heads have light brains / 173 On certain beliefs concerning the relation between a person’s facial hair and his character /174 On why people racked by suffering find it easy to face death /175 On why people denigrate things they fail to attain and are hostile to things of which they are ignorant / 176 On why it is easier to make enemies than friends / 178 On why atheists act morally / 179 On why some people willingly become the butt of other people’s jokes / 180 On why people love to occupy positions of eminence / 181 On why we honor people for the achievements of their ancestors but not those of their progeny / 183 On why the progeny of illustrious people evince an elevated sense of entitlement and self-importance /184 On whether it would be more
consistent with the true order of things if all people were honored equally /185 On different forms of divination / 186 x j Contents
On why some people dislike being addressed as “old man” while others relish it / 189 On why people take comfort from knowing they are not alone in their misfortune / 191 On the virtues of different nations, such as the Arabs, Byzantines, Persians, and Indians / 192 On why intelligent people are more susceptible to grief / 194 On why intrinsic merit and worldly fortune do not coincide / 196 On the meaning of coincidence / 203 On the nature of compulsion and choice / 203 On the reason for the wanderlust experienced by certain people / 209 On why people desire knowledge, and on the benefits of knowledge / 211 On why people and other animals respond so powerfully to certain kinds of sounds and musical effects / 213 On why older people are more liable to hope; on the meaning of “hope” and related terms / 216 On why women are more jealous than men; on the nature and moral status of jealousy / 218 On why more people die young than die old / 220 On why people seek likenesses / 222 On why we find it easier to represent extreme ugliness in our imagination than exquisite beauty / 223 On why sudden joy affects people so violently / 225 On why we experience states of suffering more intensely than states of well-being / 226 On why seeing someone laughing causes others to laugh / 228 On why human beings are so attached to the world despite the misfortunes and suffering they experience in it / 229 On why people say the world would fall to ruin ifit weren’t for fools /230 On the anxiety experienced by people who have something to hide / 233 On why we are more likely to heed a preacher who
practices what he preaches / 234 Contents | xi
On why people regret their failure to honor and benefit from great men during their lifetime / 235 On why Arabs and non-Arabs declare their pedigrees in times of war / 236 On why people distinguish between different kinds of air, water, and earth, but not different kinds of fire / 238 On why people feel happier when they unexpectedly obtain something they weren’t seeking than when they obtain what they were seeking /239 On why fine edifices fall to ruin when left uninhabited / 241 On why men of sublime character beget knaves / 242 On why our longing for home grows more intense the nearer we come toit / 243 On the meaning of the dictum that judgement sleeps while passion keeps watch / 244 On a remark concerning logic made by the dialectical theologian Abu Hāshim to the philosopher Abu Bishr Matta / 245 On why some Arabic words are feminine and others masculine / 246 On whether a human being could know everything / 248 On why new incumbents are harsh toward the officials they replace / 249 On why human beings are considered to be orphans after losing their father rather than their mother /251 On why chess is so hard to master /252 On why people dislike changing their name or patronymic, and why they have a sense of aversion toward certain names and titles / 253 On the mannerisms of people whose mind is preoccupied, and on why people have so many different ways of behaving when they feel anxious or unhappy / 255 On different ways of approaching God’s attributes / 257 On why we find it easier to remember what is correct than what is defective / 260 On why prosodists tend to
produce flat poetry / 261 On the meaning of the dictum that the learned live longer than the ignorant / 263 On why it is harder to speak eloquently than to write eloquently / 264 xii I Contents
On the significance of the fact that human beings are the only animals to stand upright / 265 On why certainty is less enduring than doubt / 266 On why we laugh harder when a person keeps a straight face / 268 On the meaning of the scholars’ proposition that a rare instance attracts no ruling / 268 On the possibility of certain kinds of coincidences obtaining / 270 On the role of analogical reasoning in the linguistic sciences / 272 On whether God created the world for a cause / 273 On why a life of comfort makes people feel oppressed and leads them to behave wantonly / 274 On why some things are best when they’re new and others are best when old / 275 On why people who display great piety are prone to arrogance / 276 On why a warm manner is more pleasing than a cold benefaction / 278 On why those closest to a king are less inclined to prattle about his person than those at the farthest remove from him / 280 On Ibn Salim al-Başrî’s claim that God perceived the world while it was nonexistent /281 On why the poets love to dwell on the apparitions that come to them in their sleep / 283 On why people are reluctant to advertise their merits / 284 On the relative merits of verse as against prose / 285 On why people feel oppressed when things are prohibited to them / 286 On why preachers are alfected by stage fright when addressing large audiences / 288 On the anxiety that affects onlookers when they see preachers affected by stage fright / 289 On why we hate hearing the same thing twice / 290 On whether the religious Law can conflict with human reason / 291 On a remark made by
Ahmad ibn ‘Abd al-Wahhab concerning the possibility of uttering something that is completely false versus something completely true / 297 On why excellent souls find repose in the truth and find falsehood repugnant / 297 Contents | xiii
On a question put by Ahmad ibn Abd al-Wahhab concerning why animals are generated inside plants but plants are not generated inside animals / 298 On the nature of alchemy and why people are so enamoured ofit / 300 On a question put by Ahmad ibn Abd al-Wahhab concerning the difference between the words “indeterminable” and “impenetrable” / 303 On the disagreements between jurists /304 On why people despise kings who are governed by pleasure and fear kings governed by reason / 308 On the physical reactions people exhibit when listening to music / 310 On why liars often tell the truth but not the reverse, and on whether habits can change / 312 On certain popular sayings / 314 On the distinction between different forms of divination / 314 On why there are four categories for inquiry: whether, what, which, and why /316 On the nonexistent / 318 On why a physician rejoices at the recovery of his patient / 320 On why money is made of silver and gold and not other substances / 320 On the specific time when the soul attaches itself to the body /324 On whether souls can recollect what they used to know after leaving the body /326 On why mountains exist / 328 On why there are three souls / 330 On why the sea is located on a particular side of the earth / 331 On why seawater is salty / 333 On how we can see things in our sleep without an organ of sense perception / 333 On a puzzle concerning the possibility of seeking something we do not know / 334 On why it does not snow in the summer / 335 On the proof for the existence of angels / 336 On what justifies the suffering of children and
non-rational animals / 337 xiv I Contents
On why it takes us longer to hear thunder than to see lightning / 338 On the possibility that a person may abandon every belief he adopts ad infinitum / 340 Notes / 342 Glossary / 353 Bibliography / 358 Further Reading / 364 Index /366 About the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute / 381 About the Translators / 382 The Library of Arabic Literature / 383 Contents | xv |
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Contents Letter from the General Editor / iii Foreword / xvi Acknowledgments / xxii Introduction / xxiii Map: Buyid and Neighboring Lands / xlix Note on the Text / 1 Notes to the Introduction / lv The Philosopher Responds / і On the differences between a number of similar words / 6 On why people commend the keeping of secrets yet still disclose them / 16 On why certain names are more pleasing than others / 20 On why people preach renunciation but do not practice it; on reasons, causes, time, and place / 24 On why people seek worldly goods through knowledge but do not seek knowledge through worldly goods / 33 On why people long for the past / 36 On why men of knowledge tend to be conceited /39 On why people are sometimes ashamed and sometimes proud of wrongdoing; on the meaning of shame / 40 On why people claim to have knowledge they lack / 42 On why it pleases people when others ascribe good qualities to them / 43 On why it is bad to praise people in their presence and good to praise them in their absence / 44
On why people want to know what others say about them in their absence / 45 On why people disapprove of young people who act as if they were older / 46 On why mean people tend to be mild-tempered and generous people volatile / 48 On why people need to acquire knowledge but not ignorance / 50 On why people who provoke admiration also feel wonder at themselves; on the nature of wonder; on describing and knowing God /52 On why it is unseemly to eulogize long-time friends and acquaintances /58 On why blind people are often endowed with unusual powers /59 On why people say that nothing good comes from partnership / 61 On why people use intermediaries despite the problems with partnership / 63 On why people speak gladly about the needs of those they concern themselves with yet keep quiet about their own needs / 65 On why some people become famous after they die / 66 On why men of virtue and reason feel envious toward their equals even though they know envy is blameworthy / 67 On why we fear death but sometimes welcome it / 69 On why thin people tend to be noble and fat people ignoble / 72 On why short people tend to be crafty and tall people foolish / 73 On why some people overstate and others understate their age / 74 On why people end up loving particular months or days and why they form different conceptions of different days / 76 On the meaning and origin of injustice / 79 On the significance of a popular saying, and the meaning of certain words / 83 On why relatives and kinfolk are prone to outbreaks of extreme hostility / 85 On why people become angry when others impute
evil to them / 86 On why a person who is being talked about suddenly appears out of nowhere; on the nature of coincidences / 87 On the meaning of certain ordinary and technical terms /89 viii I Contents
On the meaning of certain prepositional expressions concerning God / tot On the nature of the sense of familiarity we feel toward particular places and people /103 On why epilepsy is so hard to treat / 104 On why people are so enamored of ascetic individuals / 106 On why some people squander their money despite the harmful consequences this entails while others are miserly even though this gives them a bad name / 108 On why some people keep their affairs private while others broadcast them for all to hear / 109 On why self-praise is unseemly /109 On why people disparage avarice even though they’re avaricious; on the origin of avarice and generosity / 110 On why people blame treachery and praise fidelity even though treachery predominates among them / 113 On the origin of the customs of different nations / 114 On why people don’t grow young again after they’ve grown old / 114 On the benefit people derive from likening some things to others / 116 On why some dreams are true and others false / 117 On the nature of dreams / 119 On why friendship arises between apparently dissimilar individuals / 121 On the definition and nature of knowledge /125 On why people make apparently false statements when expressing admiration / 130 On why people take pleasure in contemplating beautiful forms / 131 On why people are more adept at counseling others than at managing their own affairs / 134 On why the sight of open wounds provokes horror and fascination / 135 On why people love the present world; on whether the religious Law can conflict with nature / 138 On why people take their own lives
/ 140 On a philosophical puzzle relating to the act of suicide / X42 On moral change and acting out of character /144 On the meaning of a certain saying concerning God’s beneficence / 145 Contents | ix
On why noble-minded people love cleanliness / 148 On the merits of singing versus playing musical instruments / 151 On why some people master different subjects more easily than others / 153 On the nature of physiognomy /156 On why people covet things denied to them / 161 On why people inquire into what will happen in the future /163 On the influence of companions on a person’s character and on the benefits of companionship / 165 On why people scorn certain forms of ostentatious demeanor and why individuals aren’t simply allowed to do as they please / 167 On what the soul seeks in this world and on the nature of human beings / 168 On the nature and attributes of God / 170 On why people experience fear in the absence of an apparent cause / 171 On why people fly into a rage when they can’t open a lock / 172 On why people with small heads have light brains / 173 On certain beliefs concerning the relation between a person’s facial hair and his character /174 On why people racked by suffering find it easy to face death /175 On why people denigrate things they fail to attain and are hostile to things of which they are ignorant / 176 On why it is easier to make enemies than friends / 178 On why atheists act morally / 179 On why some people willingly become the butt of other people’s jokes / 180 On why people love to occupy positions of eminence / 181 On why we honor people for the achievements of their ancestors but not those of their progeny / 183 On why the progeny of illustrious people evince an elevated sense of entitlement and self-importance /184 On whether it would be more
consistent with the true order of things if all people were honored equally /185 On different forms of divination / 186 x j Contents
On why some people dislike being addressed as “old man” while others relish it / 189 On why people take comfort from knowing they are not alone in their misfortune / 191 On the virtues of different nations, such as the Arabs, Byzantines, Persians, and Indians / 192 On why intelligent people are more susceptible to grief / 194 On why intrinsic merit and worldly fortune do not coincide / 196 On the meaning of coincidence / 203 On the nature of compulsion and choice / 203 On the reason for the wanderlust experienced by certain people / 209 On why people desire knowledge, and on the benefits of knowledge / 211 On why people and other animals respond so powerfully to certain kinds of sounds and musical effects / 213 On why older people are more liable to hope; on the meaning of “hope” and related terms / 216 On why women are more jealous than men; on the nature and moral status of jealousy / 218 On why more people die young than die old / 220 On why people seek likenesses / 222 On why we find it easier to represent extreme ugliness in our imagination than exquisite beauty / 223 On why sudden joy affects people so violently / 225 On why we experience states of suffering more intensely than states of well-being / 226 On why seeing someone laughing causes others to laugh / 228 On why human beings are so attached to the world despite the misfortunes and suffering they experience in it / 229 On why people say the world would fall to ruin ifit weren’t for fools /230 On the anxiety experienced by people who have something to hide / 233 On why we are more likely to heed a preacher who
practices what he preaches / 234 Contents | xi
On why people regret their failure to honor and benefit from great men during their lifetime / 235 On why Arabs and non-Arabs declare their pedigrees in times of war / 236 On why people distinguish between different kinds of air, water, and earth, but not different kinds of fire / 238 On why people feel happier when they unexpectedly obtain something they weren’t seeking than when they obtain what they were seeking /239 On why fine edifices fall to ruin when left uninhabited / 241 On why men of sublime character beget knaves / 242 On why our longing for home grows more intense the nearer we come toit / 243 On the meaning of the dictum that judgement sleeps while passion keeps watch / 244 On a remark concerning logic made by the dialectical theologian Abu Hāshim to the philosopher Abu Bishr Matta / 245 On why some Arabic words are feminine and others masculine / 246 On whether a human being could know everything / 248 On why new incumbents are harsh toward the officials they replace / 249 On why human beings are considered to be orphans after losing their father rather than their mother /251 On why chess is so hard to master /252 On why people dislike changing their name or patronymic, and why they have a sense of aversion toward certain names and titles / 253 On the mannerisms of people whose mind is preoccupied, and on why people have so many different ways of behaving when they feel anxious or unhappy / 255 On different ways of approaching God’s attributes / 257 On why we find it easier to remember what is correct than what is defective / 260 On why prosodists tend to
produce flat poetry / 261 On the meaning of the dictum that the learned live longer than the ignorant / 263 On why it is harder to speak eloquently than to write eloquently / 264 xii I Contents
On the significance of the fact that human beings are the only animals to stand upright / 265 On why certainty is less enduring than doubt / 266 On why we laugh harder when a person keeps a straight face / 268 On the meaning of the scholars’ proposition that a rare instance attracts no ruling / 268 On the possibility of certain kinds of coincidences obtaining / 270 On the role of analogical reasoning in the linguistic sciences / 272 On whether God created the world for a cause / 273 On why a life of comfort makes people feel oppressed and leads them to behave wantonly / 274 On why some things are best when they’re new and others are best when old / 275 On why people who display great piety are prone to arrogance / 276 On why a warm manner is more pleasing than a cold benefaction / 278 On why those closest to a king are less inclined to prattle about his person than those at the farthest remove from him / 280 On Ibn Salim al-Başrî’s claim that God perceived the world while it was nonexistent /281 On why the poets love to dwell on the apparitions that come to them in their sleep / 283 On why people are reluctant to advertise their merits / 284 On the relative merits of verse as against prose / 285 On why people feel oppressed when things are prohibited to them / 286 On why preachers are alfected by stage fright when addressing large audiences / 288 On the anxiety that affects onlookers when they see preachers affected by stage fright / 289 On why we hate hearing the same thing twice / 290 On whether the religious Law can conflict with human reason / 291 On a remark made by
Ahmad ibn ‘Abd al-Wahhab concerning the possibility of uttering something that is completely false versus something completely true / 297 On why excellent souls find repose in the truth and find falsehood repugnant / 297 Contents | xiii
On a question put by Ahmad ibn Abd al-Wahhab concerning why animals are generated inside plants but plants are not generated inside animals / 298 On the nature of alchemy and why people are so enamoured ofit / 300 On a question put by Ahmad ibn Abd al-Wahhab concerning the difference between the words “indeterminable” and “impenetrable” / 303 On the disagreements between jurists /304 On why people despise kings who are governed by pleasure and fear kings governed by reason / 308 On the physical reactions people exhibit when listening to music / 310 On why liars often tell the truth but not the reverse, and on whether habits can change / 312 On certain popular sayings / 314 On the distinction between different forms of divination / 314 On why there are four categories for inquiry: whether, what, which, and why /316 On the nonexistent / 318 On why a physician rejoices at the recovery of his patient / 320 On why money is made of silver and gold and not other substances / 320 On the specific time when the soul attaches itself to the body /324 On whether souls can recollect what they used to know after leaving the body /326 On why mountains exist / 328 On why there are three souls / 330 On why the sea is located on a particular side of the earth / 331 On why seawater is salty / 333 On how we can see things in our sleep without an organ of sense perception / 333 On a puzzle concerning the possibility of seeking something we do not know / 334 On why it does not snow in the summer / 335 On the proof for the existence of angels / 336 On what justifies the suffering of children and
non-rational animals / 337 xiv I Contents
On why it takes us longer to hear thunder than to see lightning / 338 On the possibility that a person may abandon every belief he adopts ad infinitum / 340 Notes / 342 Glossary / 353 Bibliography / 358 Further Reading / 364 Index /366 About the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute / 381 About the Translators / 382 The Library of Arabic Literature / 383 Contents | xv |
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| discipline | Außereuropäische Sprachen und Literaturen Philosophie Literaturwissenschaft |
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