And the I'm here.

Hi, I'm Peter Adam, and you're listening to the History of Philosophy

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LEMU in Munich online at history of philosophy dot net. Today's episode will be an

interview about the reception of Arabic philosophy and science in the Renaissance

with Doug Nicholas Haseh, who is professor of philosophy at the University of Wutzburg.

Hi Doug, hi Peter.

Thanks very much for coming back on the podcast. It's great to be here again.

People with long memories who are listening to this may recall that you have in fact been on before.

You were on with Charles Burnett to talk about the medieval translations of philosophical

and scientific works from Arabic into Latin. And so I was thinking maybe we could

start by having you just kind of bring us up to date now that we're in the

Renaissance what's been happening with translations from Arabic into Latin since we

last met so to speak? Yeah, there are translations from Arabic in the Renaissance too. When you think of

translations from Arabic and Latin, you think of Toledo, and you think of the Middle Ages, but it's important

to see also to understand what Renaissance philosophy is about, and Renaissance thought is about, that there's a new wave of

translations of Arabic philosophers and scientists from about 1480 to 1550.

That is we have a second translation movement. We have a

medieval translation movement and we have a Renaissance translation movement.

Perhaps it's good to compare the two. The first movement movement. Now we have translations in Italy but also in Damascus. We have Western scholars in Damascus

that translate from Arabic into Latin and scholars in Italy and the reasons Jewish scholars that translate from Hebrew and

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