Sentence examples for secular aristotle from inspiring English sources
But Elijah Delmedigo did not accept the fully secular Aristotle and tried to give us as coherent as possible a presentation of Ibn Rushd's views.
In Defensor pacis, a political polemic, as well as a tract on political theory, Marsilius, applying principles of Aristotle, evolved a secular concept of the state.
Here it would have been impressed upon him that the liberal arts were no longer adequate categories of secular learning: the new translations of Aristotle spelled the end of the liberal arts tradition, although the universities effected a transition rather than a breach.
His vast encyclopaedia of secular knowledge and wisdom consisted of an analytical exposition of Aristotle's thought combined with all the information and interpretations that Albertus had gathered from other, mainly Arabic, sources or that he had gained as the product of his own extensive research and speculation.
Ibn Rushd's Aristotelianism was as pure he could make it, and he realized that Aristotle's position regarding the origin of the world was basically secular and had no room for an Agent Creator at all since he really believed in an eternal world that had always existed and always would exist.
When I attended an elite secular liberal college, the required curriculum included the Western tradition's great philosophers and writers -- Plato, Aristotle, Thomas Moore and Thomas Aquinas -- as well as sections of the Old and New Testaments.
It provided a thoroughgoing analysis and critique of Aristotle's thought, which continued to be the most influential source in theological as well as secular philosophical settings in the sixteenth century.
No books about Aristotle, just Aristotle.
