Simple Index of Course Webpages 2022 Fall MU & KUL
Aristotelianism and Neoplatonism
Ontology and Theology
The Three Centuries Translation Movement
Two Key Neoplatonic Sources: The Enneads of Plotinus ( 204/5-270 CE) and
The Elements of Theology of Proclus (412-485)
(ps)Dionysius the Areopagite (late 5th/early 6th Centuries)
al-Kindi (801-873) On First Philosophy
Two works made available in the “Circle of al-Kindi”
The Plotiniana Arabica: The Sayings of the Greek Wiseman, The Treatise on Divine Knowledge, and The Theology of Aristotle
The Discourse on the Pure Good (later in Latin translation known as The Book of Causes)
al-Farabi (870-950)
The Opinions of the People of the Perfect State
The Political Regime / The Principles of Beings
On the Aims of the Metaphysics
Ibn Sina (980-1037)
Re-conceiving the works of Aristotle
The existent, the thing and the necessary
The Necessary Being Wājib al-Wujūd
The distinction of essence and existence
Two forms of efficient causality, two forms of creation (ibdā’)
Naming the Necessary Being: essence or essence-less?
Ibn Rushd (1126-1198) The Commentator
A return to Aristotle and the commentary traditions in Greek and Arabic
One form of efficient causality, “creation” by final causality
Reinterpreting Aristotelianism and Neoplatonism in the Context of Islam and the Abrahamic Traditions