Isaac Israeli
Isaac Israeli Ben Solomon (in Hebrew: Yitzhaq Ben Sh' lomo ha-Yisra' eli , Ishaq ibn Arab Sulayman Al-Isra' ili in ) (born towards 850 and died towards 955), known in Occident under the name of Isaac Israeli was a philanthropist, philosopher, doctor and astronomer Juif born in Egypt.
Ishaq was born in Egypt towards 850, it began its career as occultist before emigrating towards Kairouan at age the 50 years or he becomes the disciple of Ishaq ibn Imran. In Kairouan, it is made personal doctor of Ubayd Allah Al-Mahdi, founder of the dynasty of the Fatimides. As a doctor, it looked after the rich person like most stripped for whom it composed a treaty, " Kitab tibb Al-fuqara " (doctor of the poor). He is also famous for his book of dietetics, translated under the name of oiaetae universales and particulares by Constantin the African. With the Cairo and Kairouan, it makes known with its entourage the work of Asaph de Tibériade.
Isaac Israeli is also known to be the author of a Livre of the definitions where one finds the formulation of the concept of truth as being the adequacy of the thing and the spirit. This formulation will be a great success lasting of many centuries before being criticized at the dawn of the traditional age, by Thomas Hobbes in particular, which thinks truth and the forgery like attributes of the word.
| Random links: | Towns of South Korea | The Vault-of-Mount-of-Cat | Equip with Denmark of Rugby to XV | Senegalese democratic gathering | Noyes Academy | Vija_Celmins |