November 2023

https://youtu.be/-gjT2Rx2G5A Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) was an intellectual very much of his age. Only recently had Aristotle been translated from Greek (read by few theologians) into medieval Latin (read by many…

https://youtu.be/ep28GxlD-_A Known as Antiphon the Sophist and associated with a collection of Sophistic writings, this philosopher was probably active in Athens at the end of the fifth century BC. Nothing…

https://youtu.be/f1_VXmHe8vI Born in Aosta, Italy, in 1033 or 1034, Anselm was a Benedictine monk and theologian who was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1093 until his death on April 21, 1109.…

https://youtu.be/1n1VsycUDDQ Born about 586 BC, presumably in Miletus, Anaximenes was a Pre-Socratic, taught by Anaximander, who had been the student of Thales. It was this trio who made up the…

https://youtu.be/N-b-jDqdM4k Born about 610 BC in the Ionic city of Miletus in what is today Turkey, Anaximander is not only an important Pre-Socratic philosopher but is believed to be the…

https://youtu.be/JC3FLBFg7fI Anaxagoras was born about 510 BC in Clazomenae, Ionia, at the time part of the Persian Empire and today located on what is the west coast of Turkey. He…

https://youtu.be/I0biBJuDTHA Born about 801 in Basra (then a city of the Abbasid Caliphate; now in Iraq), Abu Yusuf Ya‘qub ibn Ishaq Al-Kindi is considered the first Arabic philosopher. He translated…

https://youtu.be/1I0AsHngdjc Abû Hâmid Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Ghazâlî was born in 1055, 1056, 1058, or 1059 in Tabarân-Tûs, near Meshed, Iran. Educated in Tus and at the Nizâmiyya Madrasa in Nishapur,…

https://youtu.be/IALMW8XyiD0 Born about 872 either in Farab (in present-day Kazakhstan) or Faryab (in modern Afghanistan), Abu Nasr al-Farabi was a jurist and one of the earliest of Islamic philosophers. He…

https://youtu.be/8Wr64iWs4Ck A Jewish philosopher active in Christian Spain during the first half of the fifteenth century, Joseph Albo wrote Sefer ha-‘Ikkarim (Book of Principles), which was completed in 1425. Although…