Under the patronage the Dean of the College of Arts, Prof. Dr. Majid Abdul Hamid Al-Kaabi, the Department of Philosophy at the College of Arts at the University of Basrah, in cooperation with the Continuing Education Unit, organized a scientific seminar entitled (The importance of Greek philosophy to the history of Christian philosophy, and its connection to Christian philosophy in the Middle Ages).
The seminar, moderated by Assist.Prof.Dr. Saad Abdel-Hussein Farajallah, and in which Prof.Dr. Maha Issa Al-Abdullah lectured, aimed at defining the first beginnings of philosophical thinking, and shedding light on the importance of the position of Greek philosophy in the history of philosophy, as the first to inaugurate logical and rational philosophical thinking, and to lay its first foundations, define its priorities, the most important issues it discusses, and the knowledge of why and how that thinking, which represented a new method of human thinking that was familiar with, extended before the emergence of philosophical thinking, and an attempt to reveal the importance of the connection of philosophy in its Middle Ages with its first origins represented by Greek philosophy and its position on it.
The seminar included an attempt to reveal the beginnings of philosophical thinking, identify its features, and its importance to the history of philosophy in general, shed light on the relationship that linked Greek philosophy to medieval philosophy, on the one hand, and indicate its importance to medieval philosophy.
At the conclusion of the seminar, the researchers made several recommendations, which were as follows:
1. The history of philosophy is important for understanding philosophy, as philosophy is inseparable from its history.
2. Understanding philosophy will not be without reading its history objectively, and belonging to it alone.
3. Giving philosophy its due, understanding it, preceded by contemplation, which means deliberation sufficiently before issuing prejudices, because philosophy does not deserve anything but the careful wisdom that is appropriate for it.
