Philosophy of Religion

An Overview of the Western Philosophical Tradition

  1. The Platonic Tradition:

    1. Metaphysics - Dualistic Realism

    2. Epistemology - Rationalism

    3. Historical Tradition:

      1. Academy (Athens) c. 385 BCE - 529 CE (closed by emperor Justinian)
      2. Plotinus c. 205 - 270 CE
      3. St. Augustine 354 - 430
      4. St. Anselm 1033 - 1109
      5. William of Ockham 1280 - 1349

  2. The Aristotelian Tradition:

    1. Metaphysics - Monistic Realism

    2. Epistemology - Empiricism

    3. Tradition:

      1. Lyceum (Athens), Theophrastus 370 - 285 BCE
      2. Neleus of Skepsis c. 285
      3. Alexandrian Library?
      4. Apellicon of Teos d. 84 BCE
      5. Andronicus of Rhodes c. 60 BCE (via Lucius Cornelius Sulla of Rome)
      6. Ancicius Manlius Severinus Boethius c. 475 - 524 CE
        1. Al-Kindi c. 801 - 873 (Greek to Arabic), Mesopotamia
        2. Al-Farabi 870 - 950
        3. Abu Ali Sina (a.k.a., Avicenna) 980 - 1038, Persia
        4. Ibn Rushd (a.k.a., Averroes, the commentator) 11226 - 1198, Spain
      7. Raymond, Archbishop of Toledo c. 1125 (Arabic to Latin)
      8. William of Moerbeke c. 1215 - 1286 (complete translation)
      9. St. Thomas of Aquinas c. 1225 - 1274

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