Does the Renaissance have roots in Islamic philosophy?
Natalia Vorontsova interviews Prof. Peter Adamson about the importance of Islamic philosophy for Western thought. Although little known in the West, philosophers such as Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna) and Ibn Rushd (Averroes) played an absolutely crucial role in preserving, building on, and transmitting to the West the wisdom of Aristotle, Plato, and the Neoplatonists during the Middle Ages. Similarly, Suhrawardī’s Philosophy of Illumination and Ibn Arabī’s doctrine of the Unity of Being continue to influence Western thought to this day. If we want to understand the history of European philosophy, we cannot ignore these influential scholars and sages.
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00:00 Intro
00:02:07 The Renaissance and Islamic philosophy
00:10:46 Perennial wisdom and translation movements
00:15:39 Western thought: footnotes to Plato?
00:18:09 Why did the scientific revolution take place in Europe and not in the Islamic world?
00:24:52 Mathematical and mechanistic approaches to nature
00:31:14 Islamic philosophy: followers of Aristotle or Plato & Neoplatonism?
00:36:51 Idealism? Materialism? Something else?
00:43:42 Influence of Islamic philosophy on post-classical European thought
00:46:45 The metaphysics of Avicenna
00:49:58 Avicenna on the mind-body problem
00:53:44 Followers of Avicenna: Suhrawardi and his metaphysics
01:01:07 Suhrawardi: intuitive versus discursive philosophy
01:06:32 Surhawardi: the non-dual approach
01:08:52 Saladin and the fate of Suhrawardi
01:13:17 Ibn Arabi, his metaphysics and Sufi philosophy
01:22:23 Conclusions: the role of Islamic philosophy
01:27:13 Recommended reading
01:28:25 An afterthought
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