PHIL 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Quran, Quicksand
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Formally, metaphysics is defined as the study of things that exist and their basic properties. The right kind of knowledge affects how we live our lives. Key ideas from al-ghazali include: book learning isn"t enough, but it is necessary, helpful, and enlightening, mysticism and rationality aren"t opponents. Instead, they complement each other, and people should seek out both. "i am, i exist" is necessarily true each time it is expressed by me or conceived in my mind. Basically, he means to say that al-ghazali missed something, which is the fact that you do not need mystical experiences because here, this statement of i am, i exist, is something expressed through language that is certain.
