Peter Adamson

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New Books in Philosophy · Peter Adamson, "Philosophy in the Islamic World: A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, Volume 3" (Oxford UP, 2019) · 16 Dec 2019 podcast

So once you have Kant, everyone after

Kant has to think about Kant, whether they want to or not.

And similarly in the Islamic tradition after Avicenna, who dies in ten thirty seven, really everyone just needs to start thinking about Avicenna because he's so influential, such a powerful system.

Um and so i it that means that you have a kind of double chronol double uh or a twofold chronology, as you said, or as actually you quoted me saying, um you have the time up to Avicenna, which I call the formative period because it's getting us to Avicenna.

And then you have the period after Avicenna.

The complication is that the situation over in Al Andalus is different because it's geographically very remote.

They don't necessarily have complete access to the texts from the Eastern tradition.

And so you find that in the eleventh and twelfth century, there are a lot of philosophers still engaging in projects that by the standards of the East are kind of old fashioned

And no longer relevant.

And uh

paradigm case here would be Averoese.

So Averwes spends his career writing these commentaries on Aristotle, in some cases huge, long, detailed commentaries that would only really be suitable for someone who wants to spend their entire life thinking about Aristotle, right?

And I always say that this would be like someone making black and white silent movies in the nineteen sixties or seventies.

I mean it's just like not it's so

So from the point of view of the East, this is just not where it's at anymore, even anti-philosophers or critics of philosophy like Al-Ghazali.

Al Ghazali writes a book called Incoherence of the Philosophers, and it's not about Aristotle, it's all about Avicenna.

So when he says the philosophers al Philosophia, he's he means Avicenna, he doesn't mean Aristotle.

And that's just kind of keeps being true.

So it's not like nobody cares about Aristotle at all anymore, but Avicenna is by far the more dominant figure as of the twelfth century or so.

Yeah, that's exactly right.

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