
HoP 145 - Frank Griffel on al-Ghazali
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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The Fasa Tahafud by Al-Razali
What Al-Razali actually wants to do in his tahafud is rectify philosophy in a way. He does not want to abolish it for sure, but he basically wants to say to the philosophers, listen, if you just give up the three positions, you can be good Muslims. I was actually in a way that amounts to the other thing I mentioned, namely that God's relationship to the world is necessary. Which probably hangs together with the idea that he doesn't know particulars.
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