New PDF release: What is Islamic Philosophy?

By Roy Jackson

ISBN-10: 041563203X

ISBN-13: 9780415632034

What is Islamic Philosophy? bargains a vast creation to Islamic notion, from its origins to the numerous hard matters dealing with Muslims within the modern international. The chapters discover early Islamic philosophy and hint its improvement via key issues and figures as much as the twenty-first century.

Topics lined include:

  • ethical matters comparable to simply struggle, abortion, women’s rights, homosexuality and cloning
  • questions in political philosophy relating to what sort of Islamic kingdom may exist and the way democratic can (or may still) Islam particularly be
  • the contribution of Islam to ‘big questions’ similar to the lifestyles of God, the concept that of the soul, and what constitutes truth.

This clean and unique publication encompasses a worthwhile thesaurus and recommendations for extra studying. it's perfect for college students coming to the topic for the 1st time in addition to a person eager to find out about the philosophical culture and dilemmas which are a part of the Islamic worldview.

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Alkindi 1974: 103) Alkindi saw no conflict between theology and philosophy, for they are both aiming towards truth and, he argued, both methods are able to attain truth; although he also argued that theologians should make use of the tool of philosophical logic in their argumentation rather than rely on literalism. For Alkindi, a philosopher and a religious prophet have equal standing in terms of the truth they possess, although he was careful to stress that in terms of status a prophet is greater than a philosopher because prophetic knowledge is spontaneous and infallible, whereas the philosopher must struggle through the application of logic and demonstration and is liable to error.

As I warned, this is complex and somewhat unsatisfactory, and it is a topic that has puzzled and been debated amongst scholars over the years. Those students who have studied free will versus determinism in relation to Western philosophy, however, may not be totally unaccustomed to such obtuse reasoning, as it is not too dissimilar to the doctrine of Occasionalism proposed by the eighteenth-century French rational philosopher Nicolas Malebranche (1638–1713) and the debate with his harshest critic, the Scottish empiricist philosopher David Hume (1711–76); the latter – who also perhaps presented an unsatisfactory explanation of free will with his compatibilism – calling Malebranche disrespectfully the ‘Occasional Philosopher’!

Shahrastani 1923: 53) People are morally blameworthy, nonetheless, because the completion of an act is at least partially due to the intention of the agent to commit a right or wrong act. As I warned, this is complex and somewhat unsatisfactory, and it is a topic that has puzzled and been debated amongst scholars over the years. Those students who have studied free will versus determinism in relation to Western philosophy, however, may not be totally unaccustomed to such obtuse reasoning, as it is not too dissimilar to the doctrine of Occasionalism proposed by the eighteenth-century French rational philosopher Nicolas Malebranche (1638–1713) and the debate with his harshest critic, the Scottish empiricist philosopher David Hume (1711–76); the latter – who also perhaps presented an unsatisfactory explanation of free will with his compatibilism – calling Malebranche disrespectfully the ‘Occasional Philosopher’!

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