2014 Fall
In this lesson (the second of two parts) we look at samples of the ways that two great philosophical traditions affected the Abrahamic faiths. The first great philosophical tradition is Platonism (or Neo-Platonism.) The second is Aristotelianism (often also in Neo-Platonist form). The three great Abrahamic faiths are, of course, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
ARISTOTELIANISM IN ISLAM
al-Kindi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Kindi
On First Philosophy (see pdf link)
http://www.muslimphilosophy.com/kindi/index.html
Note: al-Kindi’s text begins on pdf page 32 of 108.
Prof Notes
http://wpscape.info/mw/index.php?title=Al_Kindi
Averroes
http://www.muslimphilosophy.com/ir/art/ir-eb.htm
Overview IEP
http://www.iep.utm.edu/ibnrushd/
Emphasis on Impact to European Christians
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02150c.htm
JUDAISM
Maimonides
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Maimonides.html
Prof Notes (see esp. Eight Chapters on Ethics)
http://wpscape.info/mw/index.php?title=Maimonides
CHRISTIANITY
Thomas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Aquinas
Summa
http://www.newadvent.org/summa/
Note: for Aristotle see Q2.A3 Does God Exist?
Database suggestion:
Staley, Kevin. Al-Kindi on Creation: Aristotle’s Challenge to Islam. Journal of the History of Ideas , Vol. 50, No. 3 (Jul. – Sep., 1989) , pp. 355-370. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2709566
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