Averroës (Ibn Rushd, 1126-1198) emerged from an eminent family in Muslim Spain to become the first and last great Aristotelian of the classical Islamic world his meticulous commentaries influenced Christian thinkers and earned him favorable mention…
From the beginnings to Socrates -- Socrates and the platonic forms -- The philosophy of Plato's maturity -- Aristotle -- Epicurus and the Stoics -- The Middle Platonists and Philo of Alexandria -- The philosophy of late antiquity -- The debate about…
This is an introduction to the 9th-century philosopher and theologian John Scottus Eriugena, perhaps the most important philosophical thinker in Latin Christendom in the period between Augustine and Anselm. Eriugena was known as the interpreter of…