Constructing Truth: Logic as a nexus between the Judeo-Arabic tradition and the "Visión deleytable"

• Main Author: Michelle M. Hamilton
• Format: Article
• Language: deu
• Published: Universidad Complutense de Madrid 2018-11-01
• Series: Anales del Seminario de Historia de la Filosofía
• Subjects: Alfonso de la Torre; Al-Ándalus; al-Fārābı̄; filosofía judía; Al-Ghazālī; Guía de los perplejos; la lógica; Maimónides: Millot ha-higgayon.
• Online Access: http://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/ASHF/article/view/61531

A lexicon of Hebrew terms and their Romance equivalents from Maimónides’ treatise on logic and philosophy, <em>al-Maqālah fi-ṣināʻat al-manṭiq</em>, circulated in Hebrew aljamiado among Jews and conversos immersed in 15th-century humanism. This lexicon is one of several texts included in a manuscript which also includes literary works by converso authors such as Alfonso de la Torre’s <em>Visión deleytable </em>and Alfonso de Cartagena’s translation of sentenciae by Seneca, as well as three other philosophical lexicons. This collection of texts recorded in MS Parma 2666 reveals that 15th-century Jews and/or conversos –the only people capable of reading the Hebrew aljamiado– read and interpreted De la Torre’s <em>Visión </em>in the context of the Judeo-Arabic philosophical tradition, which is also the basis for Maimónides’ <em>Manṭiq</em>, available in Hebrew and Latin translations. In this article I examine how the philosophic vocabulary developed in al-Manṭiq, accessible in Romance in the lexicons in MS Parma 2666, reflects the Maimonidean epistemology as it survived and developed among 15th-century Jewish and converso readers of the <em>Visión deleytable</em>.