Philosopher Responds
Philosopher Responds Questions and answers from two great philosophersWhy is laughter contagious? Why do we long for the past, even if it is scarred by suffering? Why do mountains exist? Both figures…
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Philosopher Responds
Questions and answers from two great philosophersWhy is laughter contagious? Why do we long for the past, even if it is scarred by suffering? Why do mountains exist?
Both figures were foremost contributors to the remarkable flowering of cultural and intellectual life that took place in the Islamic world during the reign of the Buyid dynasty in the fourth/tenth century.The correspondence between al-Tawḥīdī and Miskawayh holds a mirror to many of the debates of the time and reflects the spirit of rationalistic inquiry Spanning a vast array of subjects that range from the philosophical to the theological, from the philological to the scientific, The Philosopher Responds is the record of a set of questions put by the litterateur Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī to the philosopher and historian Abū ʿAlī Miskawayh.