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Saturday, October 22, 2011

4(16) Al-Ghazzali

Discussion: Do you believe that if we were all philosophers, then there would be no bloodshed?
Factual: Al-Ghazzali liked Aristotle, but found fault with his arguments for the existence of God. True/False? True.

In class, we discussed Matt's post (where we got our discussion question). We discussed the possibility of all conflicts ending if everyone were philosophers.
Al-Ghazzali doubted everything to the point which he rejected many of the widely accepted beliefs, including Aristotle's propositions for the existence of God. He believed many of the God most believed in was inefficient and useless. For the most part, I think we agreed in class that Al-Ghazzali doubted everything just for the sake of doubting things.

For Monday, we have Ockham. It's a super short section. My questions are:
Discussion: Do you agree that reason can not relate to faith in any way?
Factual: What philosopher other than Al-Ghazzali rejected Aristotle's proof of God?

4 comments:

  1. I think we all pretty much agreed in class that no matter what we do, there will always be war. It isn't completely opposite opinions anymore, but resources as well, causing wars. There really isn't a foreseeable solution to fixing the problem of bloodshed.

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  2. I agree that no matter what you do, war will still happen.

    My questions for Monday:
    Discussion - Do you think that universes are abstractions of the human mind? Do only we exist?
    Factual - What is the methodological principle that has Ockam's name? Ockham's razor.

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  3. I think its laughable to consider that philosophy can end war. All I've seen it do in this class is bash religion.
    My discussion question for this week is "are faith and reason mutually exclusive".
    My factual question is "did Al-Ghazzali reject Aristotle's proof of God"

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  4. I posted something on my own about last class discussion because i was unable to attend due to family emergency. But for this class my discussion would be Can there be any reason at all without proof? and factual: What is Ockham"s Razor? Answer: part of his contribution to logic, calls for using the simplest explanation possible in all things.

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