{"product_id":"the-philosopher-or-on-faith-george-amiroutzes-9780884024859","title":"The Philosopher, or on Faith","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"God necessarily exists, since it is not possible for things to be otherwise, as Aristotle shows in the \u003ci\u003eMetaphysics\u003c\/i\u003e.\" So Mehmed II, the Ottoman conqueror of both Constantinople and Trebizond, tells George Amiroutzes, the Byzantine scholar and native of Trebizond, in the beginning of a conversation reported in Amiroutzes's dialogue \u003ci\u003eThe Philosopher, or On Faith\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe dialogue is a literary recreation of the conversations between Mehmed, a Muslim, and Amiroutzes, a Christian. In the course of \u003ci\u003eThe Philosopher, \u003c\/i\u003e the two debate the role of logic and rationality in religious debate, the nature of God, and the fate of the body and soul in the afterlife. Surprisingly complex and subtle arguments emerge, firmly situated in their fifteenth-century context but steeped in the long Greek philosophical tradition. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePreviously known only from a sixteenth-century Latin translation, \u003ci\u003eThe Philosopher\u003c\/i\u003e was rediscovered in a Greek manuscript in Toledo. In this volume, John Monfasani presents both the \u003ci\u003eeditio princeps\u003c\/i\u003e and the first translation from the Greek, with an introduction that discusses the life of Amiroutzes and the text, the text and translation with full apparatus and notes, and two appendixes that present documents related to the relationship between Amiroutzes and Mehmed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e George Amiroutzes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0884024857\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780884024859\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Dumbarton Oaks Research Library \u0026amp; Collection\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/02\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.50w x 0.90d","brand":"George Amiroutzes","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46617975324927,"sku":"9780884024859","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0d6f65ec-e49a-4550-9e43-0d87fa796d46.jpg?v=1740068844","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-philosopher-or-on-faith-george-amiroutzes-9780884024859","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}