Logic in the Service of Ancient Eastern Christianity: An Exploration of Motives

Logic in the Service of Ancient Eastern Christianity: An Exploration of MotivesArchiv für Geschichte der PhilosophieSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference PortalThe National Endowment for the HumanitiesThe International Balzan Prize FoundationDavid A. Michelsoncbsc_adminRecord added to Zotero bycbsc_adminSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portalhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/KTPC8TG7/tei

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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.DanielKingLogic in the Service of Ancient Eastern Christianity: An Exploration of Motiveshttp://syriaca.org/cbss/KTPC8TG7https://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/KTPC8TG7https://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/KTPC8TG7Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie97:120151-33The present article explores the motives behind the so-called ‘appropriation’ of Aristotelian logic by the Syriac-speaking community in the Near East from the sixth to the ninth centuries. While it is often assumed that the Syrians adopted Greek logic for religious, and polemical, ends, we aim to show rather that the underlying reasons given for the study of logic and its propagation through educational institutions were much the same among Syriac as they were for Greek practitioners of philosophy in Late Antiquity. There was a marked continuity between the late ancient Greek centres of learning and the Syriac monasteries. Syriac theologians rarely, if ever, sought to use Aristotle as a crutch in sectarian religious debates. There are implications for our understanding of how and why the Arabic renaissance in logic came about. King, Daniel. “Logic in the Service of Ancient Eastern Christianity: An Exploration of Motives.” Archiv Für Geschichte Der Philosophie 97:1 (2015): 1–33. Daniel King, Logic in the Service of Ancient Eastern Christianity: An Exploration of Motives, Archiv Für Geschichte Der Philosophie 97:1 (2015): 1–33.AristotleGreek philosophyIV-VII CEIX CEVI CEVII-XVIII CElogicphilosophytranslations from Greektranslations into Arabictranslations into Syriac