ISLA 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Stoicism, Mishnah, Zoroastrianism

• School: McGill University
• Department: Islamic Studies
• Course: ISLA 200
• Professor: Prashant Keshavmurthy

Document Summary

You have a set of social and natural practices that you 4ind in any society and they are accompanied by knowledges that state or theorize these practices. When we as humans and historians and scholars study the knowledge systems, we"re studying their forms of consciousness. With the bene4it of difference in core values, that distance in core values between civilizations allows us to compare the knowledges these civilizations produce with the knowledges of different civilizations. There was a need to align your political with your religious beliefs since before islamic times. The 4irst monetized trans-continental economy was the arab-muslim one where trade regions 4lourished. Stoicism: bringing your soul in alignment with the cosmos. Chinese civilization region agrarianated in cities with knowledge of writing and had. Confucius standards as the main culture, dominated by one high culture religion or tradition. Even nomads who don"t depend on agriculture depended on agricultural goods; they entered relationships with cities in trade.