TASK 1B2 WEEK 1

VIEWS OF ISLAMIC, EASTERN,

AND WESTERN PHILOSOPHERS
Presented by Group 4 :
ISLAMIC PHILOSOPHERS
Al Farabi Al Ghazali Ibn Sina Ibn Khaldun
• A philosopher, a legal • Known as Avicenna • The founder of modern
•The second teacher scholar and a theologian • Important contributions Sociology and
and one of the earliest • the Paragon of the to philosophy, philosophy of history
Islamic philosophers Mujaddid mathematics, chemistry • His famous book
• development of and astronomy “Muqaddimah”
•Known as Alpharabins character including the • His book ‘Kitab al-
promotion of moral and Shifa’ brought
•Reconcile Aristotelian ethic Aristotelian and
• His immortal books Platonian philosophy
and Platonian thought
include Tuhafut al- together with Islamic
with Islamic theology
Falasifa and Ihya al- theology
Ulum al-Islamia
•His famous book is
Ara Ahl al-madina al-
fadilah
EASTERN PHILOSOPHERS
Confucius Rabindranath Tagore
• Known as Kung Fu Tze •A philosopher, poet,
• Philosophers in early dramatist, teacher
Chinese history •There is spiritual bond
• Teach people how to be between man and man
good citizens
 WESTERN PHILOSOPHERS
•Believed there is no absolute right or wrong
•Rejected the idea of
•Created the Socratic Method of teaching democracy as a form of
government

Socrates Plato • Described his ideal vision of

• his book Republic

Aristotle
• Believed observation and comparison Rousseau • Thought nature is good
were necessary • Divided education into 3
sources – nature,
• Wrote over 200 books man,things
• Products – Heuristic
Method, Sensory training
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