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“A hundred scriptures cannot make fire cold”: Śaṅkara’s rule for when scripture and perception collide
I have read Śaṅkara for forty years, and I've noticed that discussions here of reason and revelation usually draw on Ibn Rushd and Maimonides. They deserve it. But the Advaita tradition worked out its own conflict rule, and I think it belongs…
Started by Arjun Iyer5 replies136 views -
Al-Ghazālī was right: much of what philosophers call demonstration is only probable reasoning
I lead Friday prayers in Bradford and work as a hospital chaplain, and al-Ghazālī has been my companion for twenty years. I want to defend a claim about him that I think is often misunderstood. People remember al-Ghazālī as the man who…
Started by Imam Bilal Hussain6 replies190 views