Life Quote by Dimitri Gutas

“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…

— Dimitri Gutas

“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

“, 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.…

— Dimitri Gutas

“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…

— Dimitri Gutas

“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

“If living philosophy was dead in Greek and had, furthermore, failed to be transplanted and to acquire an independent status in other languages, what…

— Dimitri Gutas

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Another aspect of theological discussions that played a role in philosophical arguments is apologetics – that is, Muslim disputations with non-Muslims, a practice directly…

— Dimitri Gutas