
HoP 162 - Sarah Stroumsa on Maimonides
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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The Importance of Afarabi in Philosophy
For him, the tradition that he's following is this school tradition which he would trace ultimately back to Aristotle. How does he see the Muslim thinkers as fitting into that? So you've got, I guess, as very important predecessors of my monadies, you've got Afarabi and Avasana. He has no qualms about seeing himself as a disciple of this Muslim philosopher. It seems to me that the way he criticizes Kalam as being merely dialectical in other words, it only induces unjustified beliefs rather than the certainty from philosophy.
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