XXXVI. ARISTOTLE TAKES PARIS BY STORM
Ibn Sina (980 – 1037)
The Question of Universals:
A. In the Mind of God
B. Clothed in accidents
C. Abstracted and universalized by human intellect
“First intentions”
“Second intentions”
epistemology
Active Intelligence
Avicennes (Reza Aslan; Karen Armstrong)
David Knowles: …his rataional scheme of things was attacked by conservative theologians in Islam, and his teachings may have been passed into relative oblivion in the East.”
“In the West, however, the conflict between reason and revelation was to become acute.”
Ibn Rushd, Averroës
The doctrine of Double Truth
Solom Ibn Gebirol (1021 – 1070)
“matter and form”
The Will of God
Moses ben Maiman or “Maimonides”
“supreme master of human science”
Guide for the Perplexed
Dominic Gundisalvi, archdeacon of Toledo
De immortalitate animae
Pope Greagory IX: Parens scientiarum
Forbids “those books of natural philosophy … until they could be studied and corrected.”
William of Auxerre
Stephan of Provin
Roger Bacon: Aristotle is The Philosopher as St. Paul is The Apostle.
Roland of Cremona
Cardinal Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Kilwardly
Albert “doctor universalis” Magnus
Aristotle as “a vision of truth on the natural level, valid within certain agreed limits and therefore to be sought for its own sake as a part of the knowledge of creation given to man as his birthright and heritage.”
Thomas Aquinas