The Philosophy Book

THE MEDIEVAL WORLD 79 But what is it that I am? A thinking thing. René Descartes for abandoning the central Islamic tenet of the ...

80 JUST BY THINKING ABOUT GOD WE CAN KNOW HE EXISTS ST. ANSELM (1033–1109) IN CONTEXT BRANCH Philosophy of religion APPROACH Pla ...

81 Yes, I suppose so— an ice cream in my hand is better than one that’s just in my imagination. But would you agree that somethi ...

82 PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION ARE NOT INCOMPATIBLE AVERROES (1126–1198) IN CONTEXT BRANCH Philosophy of religion APPROACH Arabic Ar ...

83 Some Muslims did not view philosophy as a legitimate subject for study in the 12th century, but Averroes argued that it was e ...

84 GOD HAS NO ATTRIBUTES MOSES MAIMONIDES (1135–1204) IN CONTEXT BRANCH Philosophy of religion APPROACH Jewish Aristotelian BEFO ...

85 See also: Johannes Scotus Eriugena 332 ■ Thomas Aquinas 88–95 ■ Meister Eckhart 333 ■ Søren Kierkegaard 194–95 THE MEDIEVAL W ...

86 DON’T GRIEVE. ANYTHING YOU LOSE COMES ROUND IN ANOTHER FORM JALAL AD-DIN MUHAMMAD RUMI (1207–1273) IN CONTEXT BRANCH Islamic ...

87 The Mawlawi Order, or Whirling Dervishes, dance as part of the Sufi Sema ceremony. The dance represents the spiritual journey ...

THE UNIVERSE HAS NOT ALWAYS EXISTED THOMAS AQUINAS (C. 1225 –1274) ...

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90 T he opinions of people today are still divided into those that hold that the universe had a beginning, and those that hold t ...

91 Aquinas is flanked by Aristotle and Plato in The Triumph of Thomas Aquinas. His understanding of ancient philosophy was consi ...

92 THOMAS AQUINAS accept Aristotle’s assertion that the universe is eternal, because the Christian faith says otherwise; but he ...

THE MEDIEVAL WORLD 93 no way of knowing that it had not. Aquinas believes that there are a number of other doctrines central to ...

94 THOMAS AQUINAS the latter’s thinking. For Aquinas, as a Christian thinker, human beings are only one type of the various sort ...

THE MEDIEVAL WORLD 95 Cosmic background radiation provides evidence of the “Big Bang” that started the universe, but we can stil ...

96 See also: Plato 50–55 ■ Johannes Scotus Eriugena 332 ■ Meister Eckhart 333 ■ Giovanni Pico della Mirandola 334 N ikolaus von ...

97 See also: St. Augustine of Hippo 72–73 ■ Thomas Aquinas 88–95 ■ René Descartes 116–23 ■ John Locke 130–33 T he treatise In Pr ...

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