ManchesterBeth
Well-Known Member
What a lulz thread.
To answer the question though: yes, with the caveat that geist realises and turns back onto itself through a higher unity.
But tawheed itself is problematic, because totality can't exist in islam as essence. it must be anthropocentric and neoplatonist. ironically, Ghazali our old chum really fucked up here, because by positing ashari determinism he (quite rightly) perceived the weaknesses of neoplatonist falsafa without coming to the conclusion that God must inherently be contradictory through all constitutive totalisable experience.
Oh, well. If you want some sort of Spinozian/Heideggerian anarchism then go for it. There is such a thing as ignosticism or dialectical materialism though.
If you're into this kind of stuff though then you must really, really make a point of reading Stalin...
To answer the question though: yes, with the caveat that geist realises and turns back onto itself through a higher unity.
But tawheed itself is problematic, because totality can't exist in islam as essence. it must be anthropocentric and neoplatonist. ironically, Ghazali our old chum really fucked up here, because by positing ashari determinism he (quite rightly) perceived the weaknesses of neoplatonist falsafa without coming to the conclusion that God must inherently be contradictory through all constitutive totalisable experience.
Oh, well. If you want some sort of Spinozian/Heideggerian anarchism then go for it. There is such a thing as ignosticism or dialectical materialism though.
If you're into this kind of stuff though then you must really, really make a point of reading Stalin...
