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HoP 123 - Philosopher of the Arabs - al-Kindi

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

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Aristotle's Metaphysics - Is God the True One?

Okin-D's treatment of God is not the only context in which he uses Aristotelian logic to do a bit of metaphysics. He also wrote a short treatise deploying ideas from Aristotle's categories to prove that the soul is immaterial. Here we can see him straining to use his still rather incomplete library of Greek philosophical texts to establish rational grounds for the core beliefs of his long philosophy. Our goal as humans should be to make this rational part dominant and to wean ourselves away from concern with the body, Okin-D writes.

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