Al-Ghazālī on the Form and Matter of the Syllogisms
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2010
Source
Vivarium
Volume
48
Issue
1-2
First Page
193
Last Page
214
URL with Digital Object Identifier
http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853410X489763
Abstract
Al-Ghazālī's Maqāsid al-falāsifa is an intelligent reworking of Avicenna's Dānesh-name (Book of Science). It was assumed by Latin scholastics that the Maqāsid contained the views of Al-Ghazālī himself. Very well read in Latin translation, it was the basic text from which the Latin authors gained their knowledge of Arabic logic. This article examines the views on the form and matter of the syllogism given in the Maqāsid and considers how they would have been viewed by a Latin reader in the thirteenth century.
