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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Replying to @LokiJulianus @380kmh
I feel like he derailed classical Islamic and Catholic thought in different ways.
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Replying to @LokiJulianus @380kmh
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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Replying to @LokiJulianus @380kmh
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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I think his intellectual effect was so pervasive they don't even know what he did
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inclined to agree, but then I think you gotta admit St Aquinas's effect wasn't pervasive in the same way--he's more consciously referenced
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