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Philosophy of the Medievals

                A new approach to the study of medieval philosophy has led to the inclusion of falsafa more consistently in the history of philosophy, as well as in Western philosophy. After all, if, to a large extent, the history of medieval philosophy was the history of philosophy written and thought in Arabic, this means that any initiative that aims to recover the philosophical value of the Middle Ages must necessarily and positively include falsafa.

            In his work Medieval Philosophy, Alain De Libera proposed a decentralized vision of Latin-language Christian medieval philosophy, seeking to positively include other philosophies that developed during the same period.

         A brief recollection of some of his words provides us with this distinction: "The history of medieval philosophy is generally written from the point of view of Western Christianity, but philosophically the medieval world has no center. Not only because the Western medieval world has a plurality of centers, but above all because there are many medieval worlds." (1998, p.7)

           This kind of movement and reform of approaches to medieval philosophy allowed interest in the study of falsafa to become indispensable for re-establishing the path of philosophical ideas in their uninterrupted continuity.

                               

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