Int. J. Middle East Stud. 44 (2012)

The pregnancy of the term "reason" forces Walbridge to explore its dimensions in classical Greek philosophical texts, in scholasticism as a tool of theology, in the age of Enlightenment and the rational scientific tradition, in its utilitarian form and its concomitant practical rationality...

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Published in:International journal of Middle East studies 2012-11, Vol.44 (4), p.815
Main Author: Saliba, George
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Ancient Greek
Civil war
Colonialism
Core curriculum
Education
Enlightenment
Greek language
Islam
Philosophy
Pregnancy
Rationalism
Rationality
Relativism
Religion
Revolutions
Romanticism
Science
Theology
Traditions
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Summary:The pregnancy of the term "reason" forces Walbridge to explore its dimensions in classical Greek philosophical texts, in scholasticism as a tool of theology, in the age of Enlightenment and the rational scientific tradition, in its utilitarian form and its concomitant practical rationality, in its relativism, in its Protestant textualism, in romanticism, in the civil war of reason in the West, and finally in Islam and in Western conceptions of reason. In addition to the foundational conceptual framework detailed previously, the first part of the book covers such areas as empirical knowledge of God's mind and the various attempts throughout the history of Islamic civilization to synthesize philosophy and religion, singling out the particular failure of al-Farabi's attempt in that regard. The latter two civilizations, along with that of Islam, were at the time legitimate competitors with Europe, as Needham proposed more than fifty years ago. [...]one needs to understand what happened to all those civilizations in contrast to what happened in Europe rather than focus solely on the oppositional comparison between the Islamic and European civilizations.
ISSN:0020-7438
1471-6380
DOI:10.1017/S0020743812000980