By Anthony Robert Booth
In this book
the writer argues that the Falasifa,
the Philosophers of the Islamic Golden Age, are usefully interpreted through
the prism of the modern, western ethics of trust. He contends that their
position quantities to what he calls ‘Moderate Evidentialism’ – that just for the
epistemic elite what one should think relies on one’s proof. The
author makes the case that the Falasifa’s place is definitely argued, ingeniously
circumvents concerns within the epistemology of testimony, and is easily worthy taking
seriously within the modern debate. He purposes that this is often specifically the
case since the place has salutary outcomes for a way to reply to
the sceptic, and for the way we're to conceive of extremist belief.
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