Moving Beyond the Orientalism–Occidentalism Debates with Logic and Philosophy: Aristotle in the Particular World of al-Fārābī and Ibn Rushd, al-Fārābī and Ibn Rushd in the Particular World of Charles E. Butterworth
The aim of this article is to reveal the possibility of evaluating studies of Prof. Charles E. Butterworth (b. 1938), a great Arabic logic and philosophy scholar who was born and raised in United States of America, received his undergraduate, MA and PhD degrees in this country, on the Arabic-Islamic logic and philosophy tradition by going beyond the discussion of orientalism-occidentalism, which emerged in modern times and are seen to have social and political aspects as well as being academic. Al-Fārābī and Ibn Rushd were able to evaluate Greek philosophy and Aristotle from a logical and philosophical perspective, accepting the truth regardless of its origin. Butterworth likewise took them as exemplars in his own work. This study will seek to establish connections between the method, perspective, and interpretive approach found in Butterworth’s writings on al-Fārābī and Ibn Rushd, and the method, perspectives, and interpretive approaches employed by al-Fārābī and Ibn Rushd in their commentaries on Aristotle. On the basis of these connections, it will be shown that Butterworth –like the ancient philosophers– has succeeded, through logic and philosophy, in transcending cultural dominations, and that he is, not a “mentally” but rather a “geographical orientalist.”
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