The Philosopher, or on Faith Amiroutzes George
"God necessarily exists, since it is not possible for things to be otherwise, as Aristotle shows in the Metaphysics." So Mehmed II, the Ottoman conqueror of both Constantinople and Trebizond, tells…
Specifikacia The Philosopher, or on Faith Amiroutzes George
"God necessarily exists, since it is not possible for things to be otherwise, as Aristotle shows in the Metaphysics." So Mehmed II, the Ottoman conqueror of both Constantinople and Trebizond, tells George Amiroutzes, the Byzantine scholar and native of Trebizond, in the beginning of a conversation reported in Amiroutzes's dialogue The Philosopher, or On Faith.The dialogue is a literary recreation of the conversations between Mehmed, a Muslim, and Amiroutzes, a Christian. In the course of The Philosopher, the two debate the role of logic and rationality in religious debate, the nature of God, and the fate of the body and soul in the afterlife. Surprisingly complex and subtle arguments emerge, firmly situated in their fifteenth-century context but steeped in the long Greek philosophical tradition.Previously known only from a sixteenth-century Latin
Girl on the Line Gardner Faith
QU'APPELLE-T-ON PHILOSOPHER ?
Mill on the Floss Eliot George
fuss on the bus George Paul