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Questions and answers from two great philosophers Why is laughter
contagious? Why do mountains exist? Why do we long for the past,
even if it is scarred by suffering? Spanning a vast array of
subjects that range from the philosophical to the theological, from
the philological to the scientific, The Philosopher Responds is the
record of a set of questions put by the litterateur Abu Hayyan
al-Tawhidi to the philosopher and historian Abu 'Ali Miskawayh.
Both figures were foremost contributors to the remarkable flowering
of cultural and intellectual life that took place in the Islamic
world during the reign of the Buyid dynasty in the fourth/tenth
century. The correspondence between al-Tawhidi and Miskawayh holds
a mirror to many of the debates of the time and reflects the spirit
of rationalistic inquiry that animated their era. It also provides
insight into the intellectual outlooks of two thinkers who were
divided as much by their distinctive temperaments as by the very
different trajectories of their professional careers. Alternately
whimsical and tragic, trivial and profound, al-Tawhidi's questions
provoke an interaction as interesting in its spiritedness as in its
content. An English-only edition.
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