Pierluigi Donini: Commentary and Tradition. Aristotelianism, Platonism, and Post-Hellenistic Philosophy

Philosophy and The Human Inheritance in a Post-Western World

The dissolution of the Western-dominated Postwar Order, and the Eurocentric myths that sustain it, presents a unique opportunity to ponder an old question posed by every new generation: How can philosophy, which Islamic and ancient Greek learning traditions have long defined as the pursuit of “wisdom,” resume its millennial civilizing role? This paper looks beyond passing political events to re...

The Commentary Tradition ON THE ILĀHIYYĀT OF THE SHIFĀʾ

This article reviews the commentary tradition around the Metaphysics of Avicenna’s Shifā’ as it evolved in the lands that belonged to Avicenna’s own cultural horizon, most of all in Iran. From this overview it emerges that this tradition is characterized by a keen interest  in textual criticism and a solid philosophical grasp of Avicenna’s metaphysical doctrines. This interest...

Biolinguistics today and Platonism yesterday

This contribution expounds on ideas put forth by a group of New York City generative grammarians that language possesses certain essential features that are uncaused and adhere to an abstract ideal form. An analogy of the situation with language is made with certain natural properties of numbers. It is also noted that this situation contrasts with that of the functional structure of human color...

Science authority of Ahl ul-Bayt with an emphasis on the authenticity of their tradition in Sunni`s resources of commentary and tradition

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Tradition, Authority and Originality in a Post-critical Perspective