
HoP 150 - Charles Burnett and Dag N Hasse on Arabic Latin Translations
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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The Importance of Essence and Existence in Philosophy
Arabic text would be translated often by a Jew, sometimes by an Arabic Christian. The translator would put that into good Latin. This doesn't go against what I've said about literal translations. Doug: There was also an understanding of the subject matter and people got used to this translation-y Latin as it were.
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