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Al-Ghazālī

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#AlGhazali

Al-Ghazālī · 1058–1111

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“The most celebrated professor in the Islamic world lost the ability to speak mid-lecture, walked away from everything, and came back a decade later with a verdict on reason's limits that reshaped a civilization.”
— The Great Philosophers, Ch. 84

The big idea, in the book's words:

“Reason is a magnificent tool that cannot prove its own foundations, cannot see necessity in nature, and cannot deliver the deepest kind of knowing — which comes only through practice, transformation, and what he called taste.”
— The Great Philosophers, Ch. 84

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