
HoP 131 - Deborah Black on al-Farabi's Epistemology
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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Is Pho Rabi a Prophet or an Aristotelian?
Abi is indebted to that background in his tradition but in a far more negative or adversarial sense. I think for Abi unlike Avasana later who makes creative use of some of the traditions of the Mutazalite theologians, so the earliest rationalist school of theology. So he thinks that they're wrong on almost everything and that their epistemology is wrong so he's got to develop a more clearly a parapatetic sort ofEpistemology to address that. They're so wrong about everything that they're even wrong about what it would mean to be right about something. But just having to deal with those kinds of issues and think about what exactly a saint is
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