Reason, Spirit and the Sacral in the New Enlightenment - Islamic Metaphysics Revived and Recent Phenomenology of Life

Acknowledgements

Table of Contents

Introduction

1. The Aporias of Rationality

2. The Logos of Life as The Filum Ariadnae of The Ontopoietic Continuity of Beingness

3. Logos and The New Enlightenment

Notes

Section One

Reason, Intellect, and Consciousness in Islamic Thought

1. The Conscious Self

2. Knowledge

3. The Unity of The Real

4. Human Nature

5. The Return

6. The Path

7. Seeing by Means of God

8. Illumination with the Divine Light

9. Finding the True Self

10. Witnessing the Real

Notes

Differentiation of the Logos

1. A New Critique of Reason

2. Lived Experience as Resource

2.1 The Human Existence Within the Unity-of-Everything-is-Alive

2.2 The Human Creative Condition Within the Unity-of-Everything-is-Alive

3. The Great Metamorphosis of The Ontopoietic Logos of Life

Notes

On the Harmony of Spirituality and Rational Wisdom According to the Opus RasaIil Ihwan As-safa: A Path to Overcome the Crisis in Sciences

1. Historical and cultural context

2. On the Connectivity of Sciences

3. Knowledge and tolerance

4. The Unfolding of Life

5. Macrocosm and Microcosm

6. Universalism

Notes

References

Section Two

In the Name of God, The Compassionate, The Merciful: Reason and Spirit

1. Introduction

1.1 Reason

1.2 Spirit

1.3 Reason-Spirit Relation

2. Mulla Sadra's Theory

Notes

Logos Differentiating Reason and Spirit in the Phenomenology of Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Reference

Spiritual Paradigm as Origin of the Life's Capacity in the Sadraian Philosophy

Notes

Sources

The Holy Quran

Section Three

Reason and Spirit in the Thought of Edmund Husserl, St. Thomas Aquinas, and A.-T. Tymieniecka: Some Complementarities and Supplementations

1. Introduction

2. Spirit and Reason in Husserls Ideas

2.1 The Scope of the Spiritual According to Husserl

2.2 Reason in Relation to Spirit According to Husserl

3. Spirit and Reason in St. Thomas Aquinas Thought

3.1 The Methods and Kinds of Reason in the Thought of St. Thomas Aquinas

3.2 Intellect in Relation to Spirit According to St. Thomas Aquinas

4. Spirit and Reason in A.-T. Tymienieckas Thought

4.1 Tymienieckas Logoic Expansion of Reason

4.2 The Anti-logos of the Spiritual

5. Conclusions

5.1 Homologies and Heterologies Between the Ideas of Husserl, Thomas, and Tymieniecka on Reason and Spirit

5.2 How the Ideas of Thomas and Tymieniecka Supplement and Complement Husserls Ideas on Reason and Spirit

Notes

Bibliography of Works Cited

Reason and Spirit in Al-Biruni's Philosophy of Mathematics

1. Introduction

2. Mathematical Structure of the Universe

3. The Presence of Numbers and Geometry

4. How Mathematical Aspects of Nature are Knowable

5. Mathematical Abstraction by the Internal Senses

6. Conclusion

Notes

References

Reason and Spirit

Notes

Section Four

The Debate About God's Simplicity: Reason and Spirit in the Eighth Discussion of Al-Ghazali's Tahafut Al-falasifa and IBN Rushd's Tahafut At-Tahafut

1. Preface

2. The Eighth Discussion

3. The Discussion's Basis

4. Al-Ghazali's First Objection

5. IBN Rushd's Reply

6. IBN Sina's Theory of Necessary and Potential Existence

7. The Theoretical Background to Al-Ghazali's Line of Argument

8. IBN Rushd's Base of Argumentation

9. Al-Ghazali's Second Objection

10. IBN Rushd's Reply to the Second Line of Argument

11. Reflection of The Second Objection and Its Reply

12. Conclusion

Notes

References

Phenomenological Dialectics on Reason and Spirit: Rational Discourses and Spiritual Inspirations

Notes

The Mystical Poetry of Shibl

References

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