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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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Sunday Jun 17, 2018
Sunday Jun 17, 2018
Is it idolatry to venerate an icon of a saint, or of Christ? The dispute leads the Byzantines to ponder the relation between an image and its object.
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Not sure if anyone ever reads this comment, but the content of this episode just reminded me of a similar problem in the Islamic world, which is venerating the Islamic symbols such as the grave of prophet Muhammad. In this context, the Salafi school usually opposes the this kind of veneration, regarding this simply as polytheism. Contrarily, however, Shi'ism tends to commit such an action quite prevalently.