Al-Kindijeva analitička teologija kao početak islamske filozofije
AL KINDI’S ANALYTIC THEOLOGY AS A BEGINING OF ISLAMIC PHILOSOPHY

Summary/Abstract: In this paper I present main topics in Ebu Yūsuf Ya‘qūb ibn Ishaq al-Kindī’s philosophy. I try to analyze how Kindī understands philosophy and its most important discipline – metaphysics, as well as philosophical method and the main goals of philosophy. I also try to show how his understanding result with what I call in this paper “al-Kindī’s analytic theology”. The essence of Kindī’s analytic theology lies in his attempt to provide an apodictic proof for God’s existence in the real philosophical sense. This proof, according to Kindī, begins with self-evident principles, and analytically, like demonstration in mathematics, develops towards the concept of God. In this way al-Kindī analyzes phenomenon of body as such, phenomenon of world as totality of body, time, as well as terms eternal, perfect and one. This Kindī’s attempt represents the beginning of medieval Islamic tradition.

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