Don't Think for Yourself: Authority and Belief in Medieval Philosophy by Peter Adamson

Don't Think for Yourself: Authority and Belief in Medieval Philosophy

Peter Adamson

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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, theo...

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