Category Archives: Middle East

I am not sure if they same conditions apply for the blogs of the second half of the class but I’m just going to assume so. We didn’t yet receive an email about the blogs so I’ll just start blogging again. First of all, I really enjoy the freedom that was given to us throughContinue reading “Al-Ghazali and the Dawn of Middle Eastern Philosophy”

I liked this session, but I was disappointed, because there was little to none information about Farabi’s musical endeavours. I don’t know why I expected more information about this as it isn’t really the most philosophical topic, but I feel like it would have been really interesting to see a little bit more about whatContinue reading “Music and Math”

First I have to start of saying, that I liked the second session a lot better than the first. The only real contemporary I could find is John Scotus Eriugena, “John the Scot”. He lived from 815-877 CE. Al-Kindi lived from 800-873 CE, so they lived in the same time. God and religion are bigContinue reading “How progressive was Al-Kindi’s philosophy compared to Western contemporaries?”

What is tolerance? The lecture brought up the question if people today are less tolerant than the medieval Middle Eastern people. The Cambridge Dictionary definition of “tolerance” is: “willingness to accept behavior and beliefs that are different from our own, although you might not agree with or approve of them”.  Not only today, but alsoContinue reading “What is tolerance?”