XXXV. FROM GREEK TO ARABIC TO LATIN: ARISTOTLE COMES WEST
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“Stephen of Antioch”
“Philip of Tripoli”
Secretum Secretorum
“James of Venice”
“Burgundio of Pisa” John Chrysostum, Basil, John Damascene
Toledo
Caliphate of Córdova
Gerbert of Aurillac
Bishop Raymond of Toledo and Adelbert of Bath
Ibn Rushd, Averroës
Al Khwarizmi’s Algebra
Ptolomy’s planisphere
Abbot Peter of Cluny
Segovia: Dominic Gundisalvi
Metaphysics, Ibn Sina (980 – 1037)
Al Qanun, the Canon
Toledo: Gerard of Cremona
Aristotle, Euclid, Archimedes, Hippocrates, Galen
Analytica priori; analytica posteriora; topica, de elenchis sophisticis
William of Moerbeke, O. P.
Council of Lyons (1274)
“veritatis amatory”
De Anima, James of Venice (1150)
Metaphysics translated by Michael Scot
1250, Ethics, Politics, Economics, Rhetoric
“… these treatises presented Europe with a philosopher who regarded human life from a purely naturalistic, this-world point of view. Taken as a whole the translations of Aristotle gave Western thinkers, for the first time, matter on which to construct a full and mature system, but the atmosphere, the presuppositions of this great body of thought were not medieval and Christian, but ancient Greek and non-religious, not to say rationalistic in character. (David Knowles)
Abbasid Caliphate
Umayyad
“frames the forms it understands”
Alkindi (875)
Al Arabi
Sufi mysticism
“ilm al-tawhid”
Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (1100) “Nothing is like Him and He is not like anything”
“Is the Quran created by God, or is it uncreated and coeternal with God?”
Rationalists and Traditionalists
The Five Pillars