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Fire and cotton in the Seventeenth Discussion, read beside Hume’s Enquiry
I model oil reservoirs for a living, so causation is a practical problem for me before breakfast. I've been reading the seventeenth discussion of al-Ghazālī's Incoherence of the Philosophers (in Michael Marmura's translation) next to Section VII of Hume's Enquiry Concerning Human…
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Mu’tazilis, al-Māturīdī and Aquinas: three ways of saying reason can see part of the moral law
I started reading kalām to understand my own faith better. The question that keeps pulling me back is whether moral knowledge needs revelation. The classical positions, as I understand them: Muʿtazila: good and bad (ḥusn and qubḥ) are knowable by reason. That…
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Kalam atomism did not anticipate quantum theory, however tempting the comparison
I am a reservoir engineer in Dhahran, and I read kalam for pleasure. Twice this year I have sat through talks claiming that the Ash'ari theologians "anticipated quantum mechanics": the world made of discrete atoms, accidents re-created at each instant, no necessary…
Started by Abdulrahman Al-Qahtani4 replies182 views