Medieval Arabic and Latin Conceptions of Spirit

Medieval Arabic and Latin Conceptions of Spirit: 

Between Philosophy, Theology, and Medicine

 

25-26 March 2022, LMU – Munich 

Friday, 25 March 

 

9:00-9:30:  Welcome and Introduction by the Organizers

 

Section 1. Islamic Philosophy and its Greek Background – Chair: Peter Adamson (LMU Munich)

 

09:30-10:15: Rotraud Hansberger (LMU Munich)

“Spirituality without Spirit: Rūḥāniyya in Ps.-Aristotle’s Kitāb al-Ḥiss wa-l-maḥsūs”

10:15-11:00: Tommaso Alpina (LMU Munich)

“Between Emanation and Perfect Disposition: Avicenna on Rūḥ”

 

11:00-11:30: Coffee Break

 

11:30-12:15: Bethany Somma (LMU Munich)

“Ibn Bāǧǧa on Spirit and How Desire Makes Motion”

12:15-13:00: Cristina Cerami (CNRS, SPHere)

“La doctrine du pneuma d’Averroes: entre Aristote et Galien”

 

13:00-14:30: Lunch Break

 

Section 2. Sciences and Theology in the Islamicate World – Chair: Bethany Somma (LMU Munich)

 

14:30-15:15: Nicolas Payen (LMU Munich/Sorbonne Université)

“The Animal as an Ensouled Being in Early Islamic Law”

15:15-16:00: Daniel Davies (Universität Hamburg)

“Rūḥ and Ruaḥ in Medieval Jewish Philosophy”

 

16:00-16:30: Coffee Break

 

16:30-17:15: Sarah Virgi (LMU Munich)

“Al-Ghazālī on rūḥ and the causes of death”

17:15-18:00: Michael Payne (LMU Munich)

“al-Jāḥiẓ on Rūḥ”

 

18:30: Dinner

 

Saturday, 26 March 

 

Section 3. Latin Reception and Innovation – Chair: Sarah Virgi (LMU Munich)

 

09:00-09:45: Michele Meroni (Università degli Studi di Milano/LMU Munich)

“Gaudium naturaliter duo conservant, quorum unum est temperantia spiritus: the Role of Spirit in Albert the Great’s Psychophysiology of Emotions”

09:45-10:30: Joël Chandelier (Université Paris 8)

“Medicine, Philosophy and Ethics: The Reception of Avicenna’s De viribus cordis in the West (14th-15th centuries)”

 

10:30-11:00: Coffee Break

 

11:00-11:45: Marilena Panarelli (Thomas Institut, Cologne/Università del Salento, Lecce)

“Bordering on Matter and Form: Spiritus and Plant Formation”

11:45-12:30: Dr. Marek Gensler & Dr. Monika Mansfeld (University of Łódź)

“Walter Burley on Spirits in the Parva Naturalia Commentaries”

 

12:30-13:15: Conclusion

 

Organizers:

Tommaso Alpina

Michele Meroni 

Bethany Somma

Sarah Virgi