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Don't Think for Yourself - Authority and Belief in Medieval Philosophy (Hardcover)
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Don't Think for Yourself - Authority and Belief in Medieval Philosophy (Hardcover)
Series: Conway Lectures in Medieval Studies
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How do we judge whether we should be willing to follow the views of
experts or whether we ought to try to come to our own, independent
views? This book seeks the answer in medieval philosophical
thought. In this engaging study into the history of philosophy and
epistemology, Peter Adamson provides an answer to a question as
relevant today as it was in the medieval period: how and when
should we turn to the authoritative expertise of other people in
forming our own beliefs? He challenges us to reconsider our
approach to this question through a constructive recovery of the
intellectual and cultural traditions of the Islamic world, the
Byzantine Empire, and Latin Christendom. Adamson begins by
foregrounding the distinction in Islamic philosophy between
taqlīd, or the uncritical acceptance of authority, and ijtihād,
or judgment based on independent effort, the latter of which was
particularly prized in Islamic law, theology, and philosophy during
the medieval period. He then demonstrates how the Islamic tradition
paves the way for the development of what he calls a “justified
taqlīd,” according to which one develops the skills necessary to
critically and selectively follow an authority based on their
reliability. The book proceeds to reconfigure our understanding of
the relation between authority and independent thought in the
medieval world by illuminating how women found spaces to assert
their own intellectual authority, how medieval writers evaluated
the authoritative status of Plato and Aristotle, and how
independent reasoning was deployed to defend one Abrahamic faith
against the other. This clear and eloquently written book will
interest scholars in and enthusiasts of medieval philosophy,
Islamic studies, Byzantine studies, and the history of thought.
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