Tao Te Ching
Al-Kindi
(Abu Yūsuf Yaʻqūb ibn ʼIsḥāq aṣ-Ṣabbāḥ)
801 – 873 CE
While European countries were still stuck in the dark ages of almost universal superstition and ignorance, Al-Kindi - knows as “father of Arabic philosophy” - precipitated the “Moslem Enlightenment,” one of the true golden ages of human history, a time that threw off its dogmatic shackles of uncritical belief and advanced science, direct experience unfettered by external sources, understanding of the sense and not just the words. A famous historian, physician, polymath, musician and mathematician; he brought Hellenistic wisdom into the Muslim world and shocked his contemporaries by appreciating Christianity.
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Tang Dynasty 唐朝 (618 – 907 CE)Unlisted Sources
Quotes by Al-Kindi (1 quotes)
“We ought not to be embarrassed of appreciating the truth and of obtaining it wherever it comes from, even if it comes from races distant and nations different from us. Nothing should be dearer to the seeker of truth than the truth itself, and there is no deterioration of the truth, nor belittling either of one who speaks it or conveys it”
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Quotes about Al-Kindi (1 quotes)
“Kindi, the first to write philosophy in Arabic, and the only philosopher of note who was himself an Arab... introduced great confusion into Arabic ideas of Aristotle, from which it took Arabic philosophy centuries to recover.”
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