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SUMMARY:Being and Essence in the Middle Ages
LOCATION:TBD... Location coming soon.
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  people going\n\nWe've been reading and discussing the concepts of Being a
 nd Essence in the Middle Ages\, starting with Aristotle and then with Isla
 mic Scholars of the golden age\, including Ibn Sina (Avicenna). So I think
  it's time to mix all these characters together in a play of our own.\n\nS
 arah Bakewell did a wonderful little work called "The Existential Cafe"\, 
 in which various Existential philosophers are imagined to be coming and go
 ing to a cafe in 1940's Paris. I'm going to borrow her clever idea and ame
 nd it by going back to 10th-13th century Baghdad at the House of Wisdom. L
 ike Sarah's work\, the characters will be presenting and arguing their phi
 losophies\, and especially their views on Being and Essence.\n\nWho\, you 
 may well ask\, will be the main characters in this play of ours? I'm think
 ing of the following: Aristotle (of course) Boethius\, Ibn Sina\, Ibn Rush
 d\, Ibn Al-Haytham\, and Thomas Aquinas. Each one of these philosophers\, 
 to me\, is wrestling with the same question: How can one best apply the wi
 sdom of Aristotle to their own contemporary world\, especially with respec
 t to Being and Essence.\n\nIt's no surprise that the development by these 
 philosophers of these two concepts throughout the Middle Ages had such an 
 profound impact on philosophy\, even up to the 20th century Existentialist
  philosophers Heidegger and Sartre.\n\nSo if you are interested in learnin
 g about the development of these key concepts of Being and Essence through
 out the Middle Ages\, please join us for a very amateur production of our 
 own play. Note\, there is no audience per se\, because you will be perform
 ing all the parts. It's a lot of fun.\n\nAristotle's Metaphysics (pdf)\nAr
 istotle's Metaphysics (YouTube lecture)\nBoethius's Theological Tractates\
 nIbn Sina The Metaphysics of the Healing\nIbn Sina An English Version of t
 he Liber de Anima\nAl-Ghazali Deliverance from Error\nAl-Ghazali The Incoh
 erence of the Philosophers\nIbn Rushd The Incoherence of the Incoherence\n
 Thomas Aquinas On Being and Essence\nThe Optics of Ibn Al-Haytham
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