“At the center of discussion were the questions of legitimacy of succession to the caliphate, the relationship of leadership to faith, and the concomitant problem of unbelief when that relationship was considered by some factions as inadequate. The conflicting views… — Dimitri Gutas Copy Share Image
“Al-Kind¯ı’s work revived philosophy as living practice and introduced it in the new social environment of Abbasid Baghdad by making it relevant to its intellectual concerns and widely acceptable as the indispensable means for critical and rigorous thinking based on reason, not authority. The resurrection of philosophy in Arabic in the early ninth century was a revolutionary event, as mentioned… — Dimitri Gutas Copy Share
“Certainly the most significant of [the political, social and ideological currents playing a role in the development of philosophical texts in Arabic] was the… — Dimitri Gutas Copy Share Image
“, 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… — Dimitri Gutas Copy Share
“Two great contemporary scholars at the antipodes of the cultural spread of Hellenism, Boethius in Rome (d. 525) and Sergius of Re¯ˇsayna in northern Mesopotamia ¯ (d. 536), conceived of the grand idea of translating all of Aristotle into Latin and Syriac respectively.5 The conception is to their credit as individual thinkers for their noble intentions; their failure indicates that… — Dimitri Gutas Copy Share
“This translation movement, during the course of which almost all non-literary and non-historical secular Greek works on science and philosophy were translated upon demand… — Dimitri Gutas Copy Share Image
“If living philosophy was dead in Greek and had, furthermore, failed to be transplanted and to acquire an independent status in other languages, what survived were its physical remains in the form of manuscripts and libraries,8 as well as certain – much reduced, enfeebled, and diluted – philosophical curricula and theological applications, primarily of logical studies, in various schools and… — Dimitri Gutas Copy Share
“In Greek, the most significant area to which these curricula were reduced was the rudiments of Aristotelian logic. It is possible, for instance, to… — Dimitri Gutas Copy Share Image
“In ways that have not yet been properly understood, philosophy had a second beginning in Abbasid society by the end of the ninth century… — Dimitri Gutas Copy Share Image
“Intellectual life in the caliphal court just before and after the Abbasid revolution (750), during which time Ibn al-Muqaffa was active, revolved around questions… — Dimitri Gutas Copy Share Image
“Even after the Hellenistic empire of Alexander’s successors was supplanted by that of the Latin-speaking Romans, the usual linguistic development – the language of… — Dimitri Gutas Copy Share Image
“The beginnings of Arabic philosophical literature can be described as taking place in two stages. The first occurs from roughly the middle of the… — Dimitri Gutas Copy Share Image
“To be sure, there were attempts at translating the philosophy that was written in Greek into other languages – the presumed intention being to… — Dimitri Gutas Copy Share Image
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