Abu Hamid Muhammad ibn Muhammad Al-Ghazali, better known as Imam Al-Ghazali for short or Algazel in the West, was a Medieval Persian philosopher who pioneered a form of philosophical scepticism that would work to drastically shift the Medieval world away from Neoplatonic metaphysics.
Predating Rene Descartes by over 500 years, Al-Ghazali formalised a method of radical scepticism that would work to question the philosophical consensus of the time. In particular, Al-Ghazali would challenge many of the ideas of thinkers before him, notably Ibn Sina, Al Farabi, Aristotle and Plato - and he would do so in a fashion that was internally consistent within the philosophers own methodology. This would be articulated in his landmark text "The Incoherence of the Philosophers" or "Tahafut al-falasifa".
Eventually Al-Ghazali would grow disillusioned with the academic world, and find solace in becoming a wandering mystic, meandering from city to city within the Abbasid and Seljuk empires. Its from these experiences that Al-Ghazali would write his seminal guide for spiritual life "Ihya Ulum al-Din" or "Revival of the Religious Sciences". But that is a video for another day...
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Introduction -
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Personal Life -
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Career -
02:50
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#1 Eternality of the Universe -
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#2 Universals and Particulars -
06:45
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#3 The Unseen World -
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Epistemology -
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Conclusion -
11:25
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Al-Ghazali portrait by Arman Haque of Moral Studios (
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