XXXV. FROM GREEK TO ARABIC TO LATIN:  ARISTOTLE COMES WEST

“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, Hippocrataes, 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