Aquinas and Ghazali represent the closing-of-thought for their respective faiths. Effects seen till this day.
Ghazali didn't like Aristotle (iirc) but Aquinas did--would you say Aristotle had any similar closing-of-thought effect in Classical world?
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Yeah, I don't really like Aristotle tbqh.
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I feel like he derailed classical Islamic and Catholic thought in different ways.
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In Islam, he just caused them to abandon philosophy outside of Iran basically, and in RCC he led to "legalism" and eventually nominalism.
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Nominalism which (per Gillespie) culminated in the Reformation
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Yes. All roads lead to (((William of Ockham))).
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So it's probably unfair to single out Aquinas like that.
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Eh, given the way people go on about him as the final word in theology I could see why you did
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Come to think of it I never hear Muslims going on about Ghazali these days (tho I'm hardly talking to as many as I am Catholics)
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Aristotle was not super influential in the Hellenistic world, iirc. His practical thought was more drawn on than his metaphysics
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