The presence of knowledge and its types in the philosophy of al-Kindi

Abstract

Knowledge is the first basic philosophical activity to reach the truth or certainty that man desires.

Knowledge is a very important means, which the philosopher follows in his mind through (analysis, criticism and interpretation), using the tools and sources of knowledge, whether they are mental, sensory, or intuitive (Al-Hamiyyah).

Al-Kindi, as the first Islamic philosopher, touched on several types of knowledge that he mentioned in his treatise “On the Great Industry” and they are (real knowledge, presumptive knowledge, and deceptive knowledge). The concept of knowledge was present in the folds of Al-Kindi’s philosophical letters.

The importance of the research was surprised to shed light on the concept of knowledge among the Greek philosophers, and to stand at Al-Kindi’s philosophical vision and the extent of the presence of knowledge and its types in Al-Kindi’s philosophical approach and method, some of which became clear through his writings, and how the researchers who preceded us analyzed them. What are the definitions mentioned by Al-Kindi in his letter ((in The limits of things and their drawings)) that have to do with knowledge and sensory and mental perception?

Then we touched on the types of knowledge in Al-Kindi language and idiomatically, and what are the differences between mental knowledge and sensory knowledge?

Which was mentioned to us by the Iraqi philosopher Hussam Al-Alusi (may God have mercy on him) in his book ((The Philosophy of Al-Kindi and the Opinions of the Ancients and Moderns in it)) and then we dealt with the complementarity of knowledge at Al-Kindi, as he is considered the first Peripatetic Islamic philosopher who tried to reconcile philosophy and religion, after he translated, studied, understood and interpreted the philosophy of Plato and Aristotle tried to present it to us in an Islamic syncretic spirit.