--- title: "3 Greek Philosophical Quotes by 2 authors" description: "Browse 3 Greek Philosophical quotes by 2 authors. Discover the best Greek Philosophical sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4bc/dimitri-gutas-30388_business_the-core-of-al-kindi-s-philosophical-ent_270059.jpg" --- > [ “, the core of \[Al-Kindi's\] philosophical enterprise was centered in the geometrical approach to the solution of all problems associated with metaphysics… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dimitri-gutas/the-core-of-al-kindi-s-philosophical-enterprise-was-centered-in-the/) [Dimitri Gutas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dimitri-gutas/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4bc/dimitri-gutas-30388_business_the-core-of-al-kindi-s-philosophical-ent_270059.jpg) > [“In Greek, the most significant area to which these curricula were reduced was the rudiments of Aristotelian logic. It is possible, for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dimitri-gutas/in-greek-the-most-significant-area-to-which-these-curricula-were/) [Dimitri Gutas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dimitri-gutas/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ebe/dimitri-gutas-30388_books_in-greek-the-most-significant-area-to-wh_994779.jpg) > [“The European reception of Greek philosophy has been dominated by a model in which Plato and Aristotle are seen as the centers…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-mcevilley/the-european-reception-of-greek-philosophy-has-been-dominated-by-a/) [Thomas McEvilley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-mcevilley/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f14/thomas-mcevilley-42744_greek-philosophy_the-european-reception-of-greek-philosop_1537797.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/greek-philosophical/#itemlist", "name": "Greek Philosophical Quotes", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“, the core of [Al-Kindi's] philosophical enterprise was centered in the geometrical approach to the solution of all problems associated with metaphysics and cosmology. This focus explains the fragmentary nature of the translations from Proclus and Plotinus that he commissioned, just as it explains his philosophical eclecticism: he was interested primarily in the question of the One or God as the first principle and in all the issues – methodological, metaphysical, cosmological – related to that concept; he was, accordingly, fashioning his own approach from the disjecta membra of Greek philosophy available in the written (but not living) tradition. This is why his philosophical thinking does not belong to a school tradition, why it does not rest on preexisting translations of Greek philosophical works, and why it is an original creation, in Arabic, of the intellectualism of early Abbasid society.41”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Dimitri Gutas" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dimitri-gutas/the-core-of-al-kindi-s-philosophical-enterprise-was-centered-in-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4bc/dimitri-gutas-30388_business_the-core-of-al-kindi-s-philosophical-ent_270059.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4bc/dimitri-gutas-30388_business_the-core-of-al-kindi-s-philosophical-ent_270059.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4bc/dimitri-gutas-30388_business_the-core-of-al-kindi-s-philosophical-ent_270059.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“, the core of [Al-Kindi's] philosophical enterprise was centered in the geometrical approach to the solution…” — Dimitri Gutas", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“In Greek, the most significant area to which these curricula were reduced was the rudiments of Aristotelian logic. It is possible, for instance, to discern a major structural change in the medical curriculum in Alexandria toward the end of the sixth century, perhaps as a reaction to the decline of philosophical instruction in that last remaining center of Greek philosophical studies. ...The theological applications of philosophy in Greek patristic literature, by contrast, were many and longevous, though clearly harnessed to their theological, apologetic, and polemical goals rather than free philosophical discourse. In Syriac Christianity, as in Greek, there is a similar development of a logical curriculum, except that it was rather shorter: The Sasanian rulers actively endorsed a translation culture that viewed the transferral of Greek texts and ideas into Middle Persian as the “restitution” of an Iranian heritage that was allegedly pilfered by the Greeks after the campaigns of Alexander the Great.17 It was this cultural context, and the atmosphere of open debate fostered most energetically by Chosroes I Anushirwan (ruled 531–78), that must have prompted the Greek philosophers to seek refuge in his court after Justinian’s 529 edict prohibited them from teaching.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Dimitri Gutas" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dimitri-gutas/in-greek-the-most-significant-area-to-which-these-curricula-were/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ebe/dimitri-gutas-30388_books_in-greek-the-most-significant-area-to-wh_994779.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ebe/dimitri-gutas-30388_books_in-greek-the-most-significant-area-to-wh_994779.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ebe/dimitri-gutas-30388_books_in-greek-the-most-significant-area-to-wh_994779.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“In Greek, the most significant area to which these curricula were reduced was the rudiments of Aristotelian…” — Dimitri Gutas", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The European reception of Greek philosophy has been dominated by a model in which Plato and Aristotle are seen as the centers and others such as Sextus Empiricus—whose extant works are comparable both in extent and in importance to those of Plato and Aristotle and as representative of the Greek philosophical tradition—are not heard of. In fact, Plato too is censored, in that the Parmenides, which Plotinus regarded as the essential Platonic work, is regarded as a joke or a game, and passages such as “destroying the hypotheses” in the Republic are either edited out of the text or interpreted out of the commentary. The fact that Greek philosophy from the very beginning was characterized by critical dialectic and by the ethics of retreat that often attends it is not studied in our schools. When attention is occasionally paid to, say, Pyrrhonic skepticism, it is seen as outrageous and inhuman. Greek philosophy has, in effect, been forced into the mold of European philosophy, when in fact it had a great deal more in common with its contemporaneous Indian thought.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Thomas McEvilley" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-mcevilley/the-european-reception-of-greek-philosophy-has-been-dominated-by-a/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f14/thomas-mcevilley-42744_greek-philosophy_the-european-reception-of-greek-philosop_1537797.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f14/thomas-mcevilley-42744_greek-philosophy_the-european-reception-of-greek-philosop_1537797.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f14/thomas-mcevilley-42744_greek-philosophy_the-european-reception-of-greek-philosop_1537797.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The European reception of Greek philosophy has been dominated by a model in which Plato and Aristotle are…” — Thomas McEvilley", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/greek-philosophical/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/greek-philosophical/", "name": "Greek Philosophical Quotes", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/greek-philosophical/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4bc/dimitri-gutas-30388_business_the-core-of-al-kindi-s-philosophical-ent_270059.jpg" }, "description": "Browse 3 Greek Philosophical quotes by 2 authors. 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