It's ridiculous to say that the east developed without logic. One cannot even take a step without using logic. If A then B type thinking is witnessed in infants around the world. Besides, there are many different kinds and styles of logic. Aritotiliam logic is just one kind of logic. Without logic the east would nort have been able to build structures, have irrigation or any of the other advancements they had. There are many famous methematicians from Persia and Saudi Arabia in particular, many of whom preceded Aristotle. I personally did a report on a persian arab mathmatician from the 800s but I forgot his name. Muhammed something or other. Yeah, they had logic, lots of it.
Eastern religion and philosophy are without logic. They are mystical. They pull it out of their behind.
The statement I made was not an absolutist comment.
There are not many different kinds and styles of logic. Logic is the art of non-contradictory measurement. Aristotelian logic was the mother tongue from which math, science and technology got their start.
I'd love to see you give an example of Persian and Saudi Arabian "logic" which did not stem from Aristotle.
Are you aware that at one time the Arabs (hence Muslims) discovered buried manuscripts of Aristotle and began a Renaissance of learning which propelled them forward in thinking, analytical reasoning and progress? Then, the theologians stifled and smothered it altogether.
The mathematician you refere to was Al Jabr from which we get the term Algebra.
In Arabic, Aristotle was referred to by name as Aristutalis or, more frequently, Aristu, although when quoted he was often referred to by a sobriquet such as 'the wise man'. Aristotle was also generally known as the First Teacher. Following the initial reception of Hellenistic texts into Islamic thought in al-Kindi's time, al-Farabi rediscovered a 'purer' version in the tenth century. In an allusion to his dependence on Aristotle, al-Farabi was called the Second Teacher. Ibn Rushd, known in the West as Averroes, was the last great Arabophone commentator on Aristotle, writing numerous treatises on his works. A careful examination of the Aristotelian works received by the Arabs indicates they were generally aware of the true Aristotle. Later, transmission of these works to Christian Europe allowed Aristotelianism to flourish in the scholastic period.
| Aristotelianism |
| After the decline of Rome, Aristotle’s work was lost in the West. However, in the 9th cent., Arab scholars introduced Aristotle to Islam, and Muslim theology, philosophy, and natural science all took on an Aristotelian cast. It was largely through Arab and Jewish scholars that Aristotelian thought was reintroduced in the West. His works became the basis of medieval scholasticism; much of Roman Catholic theology shows, through St. Thomas Aquinas, Aristotelian influence. There has also been a revival of Aristotelian influence on philosophy in the 20th cent. His teleological approach has continued to be central to biology, but it was banished from physics by the scientific revolution of the 17th cent. His work in astronomy, later elaborated by Ptolemy, was controverted by the investigations of Copernicus and Galileo. |
