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HoP 123 - Philosopher of the Arabs - al-Kindi

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

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Okin-d'S on the Soul

Okin-D was a 10th century Muslim philosopher. He is best known for his treatises on ethics and political philosophy. Okin-D inaugurates a long tradition of explaining human knowledge in terms of a superhuman, separate intellect. We'll be talking about this in more detail when we get to later thinkers like Al-Farrabi, Avasana, and Averuis. The last Jewish philosopher we looked at was Philo of Alexandria,. who lived way back in the first century A.D.

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