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Islamic Holdem'
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Posted on 03/22/2015 8:27:21 PM PDT by rey
TOPICS: Sports
KEYWORDS: islam; texasholdem
Avicenna was a Persian philosopher, doctor and logician of the 11th century. He is probably the most important thinker of the Golden Age of Islam, revolutionizing multiple fields of thought, particularly philosophy. His ideas on Existence and Essence and his own adaption of Aristotelian metaphysics were highly influential, and he became the central figure for philosophy in the Islamic world. Averroes was a 12th century Philosophy, best known for his commentaries on Aristotle. He thought a lot of the revisions of Aristotle's thought were wrong, in particular people like Avicenna, who tried to merge Neo-Platonism with Aristotelean thought. While his ideas never were very popular in the Islamic world, where Avicenna had already supplanted Aristotle and the most studied thinker, he was extremely important in spreading Aristotelean thought into the West. For many places in the West, the first copy of Aristotle to arrive was translated from Arabic, along side with Averroes's commentaries. Al-Ghazali was an 11th-12th century Islamic mystic. He was best known for his criticism of Philosophy is his book The Incoherence of the Philosophers, which rejected the philosophy of both Aristotle and Plato (and therefore most of the Islamic philosophers who had been working off them). He instead claimed that the world was only caused by God, and could only be understood through the Sufi practices (mysticism). Averroes replied with The Incoherence of the Incoherence, but this, unfortunately, did not result in an infinite regress of replies.
Hard to believe that there used to be those in Islam who believed that creatures evolved toward love.
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posted on
03/22/2015 8:27:21 PM PDT
by
rey
To: rey
What put a real dent in the Islamic philosophy was a fatwa that was put out so that no one could read or teach Aristotle anymore. They got rid of Aristotle at the same time that the West rediscovered him. We then experienced the Renaissance while the muslims just stopped in their tracks.
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posted on
03/22/2015 8:50:07 PM PDT
by
Slyfox
(I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever)
To: rey
Whoa, when I read the title I thought it was going to be about obama and reggies putter!
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posted on
03/22/2015 9:05:00 PM PDT
by
Mastador1
(I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
To: rey
An excellent example of hoe Islam’s claimed inventions were actually concepts and technology highjacked from the Hellenic world which Islam so thoroughly destroyed,
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posted on
03/22/2015 10:01:18 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.a)
To: BenLurkin
Indeed.
As well as the concept of zero, which was stolen from India.
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posted on
03/23/2015 9:44:22 AM PDT
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