Aristotle and Platonism in Modern-Day Philosophy

Abstract

This paper sheds light on the two philosophies of Aristotle and plate during the medieval Age, a period of time continually viewed by the West as the darkest period. All the humanist thinkers during the Renaissance as well as the philosophers of the Age of Enlightenment have previously described it as the Age of Ignorance inhabiting all the hearts and minds. It is worth mentioning here that this negative picture has undergone a complete radical change as shown through those studies presented during the period extending from the end of the 19^th century and the beginning of the 20^th century. According to those studies, two great intellectual renaissance movements have prevailed during the middle ages; the Renaissance of the Islamic world in the ninth century and the renaissance of the Latin West in the thirteenth century. Alexandre Cobri’s Esthemeological Essay belongs to this context shedding light on the presence of two ancient philosophical traditions, the Platonic and the Aristotelian in the middle Ages. Not only this, Cobri’s essay also sheds light on the method followed by the thinkers and philosophers all around the Islamic world and the Latin West in applying these two  philosophies in a cultural context entirely ruled by Abrahamic religions.