Avicennism

Response to question 1: Ibn Tufayl writes of Hayy ibn Yaqzan’s experiences starting with his birth. Tufayl presents two different accounts about the origin of his hero, Hayy. The first account was that Hayy was born on an uninhabited island, not from parents but, rather, from clay fermentation. The author emphasizes the importance of the island’s perfect geographic location and climate in order to support the possibility of spontaneous human generation without the need for a mother and father

Al Farabi’s philosophical contribution Abu Nasr Muhammad al- Farabi, one the earliest Islamic intellectuals who were instrumental in transmitting the doctrines of Plato and Aristotle to the Muslim world, had a considerable influence on the later Islamic philosophers such as Avicenna. He is widely regarded as the founder of philosophy within the Islamic world. Al-Farabi had great influence on science and philosophy for several centuries, and was widely considered second only to Aristotle in knowledge

The golden age of Islamic (and/or Muslim) art lasted from 750 to the 16th century, when ceramics, glass, metalwork, textiles, illuminated manuscripts, and woodwork flourished. Lustrous glazing was an Islamic contribution to ceramics. Islamic luster-painted ceramics were imitated by Italian potters during the Renaissance. Manuscript illumination developed into an important and greatly respected art, and portrait miniature painting flourished in Persia. Calligraphy, an essential aspect of written Arabic

It has been approximately 2,400 years since the death of Aristotle. In that time civilizations have been made and destroyed, technology has evolved, dark ages have come and gone and moments in history have been made and recorded. How, then, is it possible for us to know anything about Aristotle, Plato or even have Homer’s epics, let alone still have fragments of some of their famous works and complete copies of some? How is it possible that we know so much about these authors—so much that we can

metaphysics and science. Later in life Aristotle had his own school of philosophy, Aristotelianism or the Peripatetic School, which later influenced almost all philosophical thinking (especially the medieval movements: scholasticism, averroism and avicennism). (Godwin, 2017; Pecorino, Ph.D., 2001; Philosophybasics.com, 2008) Plato is recognized as the first philosophy whose complete work is still available today—he wrote around 35 superb dialogues (written in conversation form) which assisted in the

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