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A Comparative Study of Ramanuja’s and Sirhindi’s Epistemological Views
The problem of synthesis and reconciliation of the Ramanuja and Sirhindi is of vital significance and importance, and no serious student of...
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A Cartesian-Scholastic Controversy over the Origin of Life Opposing Frankfurt and Wittenberg, 1659–1660
This chapter deals with a controversy over the origin of life that reached well beyond the University of Frankfurt an der Oder and Brandenburg. It...
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Difference
This chapter considers the question of difference in the context of the relationships between German Idealism and contemporary philosophy. The main...
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Ethics and Aesthetics: Theorizing Simile in Ibn Sīnā’s Risālat al-Ṭayr and Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓān
Of the range of works written by the prolific Ibn Sīnā, his allegorical tales stand apart in style and content. The narratives of each tale, as...
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An Idea of Political Hermeneutics in Farabi’s Philosophy
Farabi’s philosophy equips the present-day hermeneut with a dare to know and critique religion about its effects of power. Farabi’s teachings lodge...
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Ibn Ḥazm on Heteronomous Imperatives. A Landmark in the History of the Logical Analysis of Norms
Ibn Ḥazm of Córdoba’s (994–1064) defence of logic has lasting consequences for the logic of norms. His book Facilitating the Understanding of the...
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Epistemology
In a general sense, epistemology aims to provide criteria for knowledge, and in a more restricted sense, an elaboration of a theory of scientific...
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Anti-dialecticians in the Middle Ages: Historiographic Myth or Reality?
At the beginning of the twentieth century, the historiographical category of “anti-dialecticians” has been devised to describe a group of...
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John Duns Scotus
John Duns Scotus (1265/1266–1308) was one of the most important and influential philosopher-theologians of the High Middle Ages. His brilliantly...
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Peter Abelard
The characteristic doctrines of Peter Abelard (1079–1142) can be arranged under the headings of logic, metaphysics, and ethics. Abelard rejects the...
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Ibn Rushd, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Ḥafīd (Averroes)
Averroes (1126–1198 CE) was the most famous and prolific commentator on Aristotle in all of medieval philosophy: 38 works are extant, at all levels...
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Evil and Suffering
Evil and consequent suffering pose an enormous challenge to Christians. The traditional explanation for the existence of evil and suffering via the...
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The Logic of Revelation
No longer trusting the once-dominant disciplines of reasoning in the modern academy, contemporary discussions of theology often turn to tradition- or...
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Kant’s religious ethics: the ineluctable link between morality and theism
Kant’s religious ethics is grounded in a practical philosophy where ‘God’ is subordinated to moral principles. To accomplish this goal, Kant...
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The Tawhidi Epistemic Meaning of the Hereafter in IPS
The universal and unique methodological worldview is shown to apply to the generality and details of the Tawhidi socio-scientific entirety. Examples...
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James of Metz
James of Metz was a Dominican theologian active in the years surrounding 1300. His thought as found in various versions of his mostly unedited...
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Epistemic Foundation: Epistemologies and Worldviews, the Bible and Public Schools
Confusion surrounding the correct interpretation of a letter written by Pope Gelasius I at the end of the fifth century forged a path over the next...
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Eustratios of Nicaea
Eustratios of Nicaea was an extremely erudite Byzantine scholar who produced commentaries on Aristotle’s ethical and logical treatises. He seems to...
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Theology Versus Philosophy in the Arab World
When describing the relationship between theology and philosophy in the medieval Islamic setting it is necessary to start with a few qualifications....