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higher than rational
apprehension, namely that of the Prophets when Allah revealed truths to them.
Though not common knowledge in the West, without Ghazali, the endeavor of influential
leading
philosophers of the renaissance such as Descartes, Jean Jacques Roseau, and the like would not
exist. In
fact, Descartes introduces his discussions in a manner following Al-Ghazali, without mentioning
al-Ghazali.
Looking for “necessary” truths, Descartes came, like al-Ghazali, to doubt the infallibility of
sense-perception,
and to rest his philosophy rather on principles which are intuitively certain. But
Ghazali had far superior
spiritual and ethical qualities not to mention a path to spiritual reality, and far reaching global
balance and so
Al-Ghazali classified and addressed the various seekers of truth of his time into four
distinct groups:
Theologians, Philosophers, Authoritarians, and Mystics.
apprehension, namely that of the Prophets when Allah revealed truths to them.
Though not common knowledge in the West, without Ghazali, the endeavor of influential
leading
philosophers of the renaissance such as Descartes, Jean Jacques Roseau, and the like would not
exist. In
fact, Descartes introduces his discussions in a manner following Al-Ghazali, without mentioning
al-Ghazali.
Looking for “necessary” truths, Descartes came, like al-Ghazali, to doubt the infallibility of
sense-perception,
and to rest his philosophy rather on principles which are intuitively certain. But
Ghazali had far superior
spiritual and ethical qualities not to mention a path to spiritual reality, and far reaching global
balance and so
Al-Ghazali classified and addressed the various seekers of truth of his time into four
distinct groups:
Theologians, Philosophers, Authoritarians, and Mystics.