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Peter Adamson, Professor of Philosophy at the LMU in Munich and at King's College London, takes listeners through the history of philosophy, "without any gaps". www.historyofphilosophy.net
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Oct 27, 2013
Oct 27, 2013
26 min
The development of Islamic law and jurisprudence (fiqh), and the many-sided output of the legal theorist Ibn Ḥazm.
Oct 20, 2013
Oct 20, 2013
22 min
The flowering of philosophy among Muslims and Jews in al-Andalus (Muslim-controlled Spain and Portugal).
Oct 13, 2013
Oct 13, 2013
23 min
Why did al-Ghazālī judge "the philosophers" to be apostates? Peter finds out from Frank Griffel.
Oct 6, 2013
Oct 6, 2013
22 min
In his “Incoherence of the Philosophers,” al-Ghazālī attacks Avicenna’s theories about the eternity of the universe and insists on the possibility of miracles.