Kannu
I've told you that I've got a complicated relationship with God. I believe in him but the gap between reason and faith is tough to fulfil. When did the universe begin? What is life? Do we live in a deterministic universe? Does destiny exist? I grappled with some of these questions when I was researching artificial intelligence. To what extent can I use various factors and coefficients and parametric/non parametric means to predict the future? If god is all knowing, that means that he has a giant regression model in his mind. Is that where we are going? And if that is the case, then why struggle to improve oneself? See the first argument about an old man and young child and god.
Asking these philosophical questions, son, is not to find the right answer. There IS no right answer. But there are answers which lead to more questions.
Here's an interesting book by Ibn Rusd son. One of the brilliant thinkers, philosophers, scientists, medicine practitioners and jurists. I've spoken about him earlier.
Read it it you get a chance son
Love
Baba
Incoherence of the Incoherence
http://www.muslimphilosophy.com/ir/tt/tt-all.htm
ABU AL-WALID
MUHAMMAD IBN AHMAD
IBN RUSHD
AL-QURTUBI
AVERROES’
TAHAFUT AL-TAHAFUT
E-text Edition
(The Incoherence of the Incoherence)
TRANSLATED FROM THE ARABIC
WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES
BY
SIMON VAN DEN BERGH
PUBLISHED AND DISTRIBUTED BY
THE TRUSTEES OF THE “E. J. W. GIBBMEMORIAL”
Muhammad Hozien
TABLE OF CONTENTS
VOLUME I
TRANSLATION
THE FIRST DISCUSSION Concerning the Eternity of the World
THE SECOND DISCUSSION: The Refutation of their Theory of the Incorruptibility of the World and of Time and Motion
THE THIRD DISCUSSION: The demonstration of their confusion in saying that God is the agent and the maker of the world and that the world in His product and act, and the demonstration that these expressions are in their system only metaphors without any real sense
THE FOURTH DISCUSSION:Showing that they are unable to prone the existence of a creator of the world
THE FIFTH DISCUSSION: To show their incapacity to prove God’s unity and the impossibility of two necessary existents both without a cause
THE SIXTH DISCUSSION: To refute their denial of attributes
THE SEVENTH DISCUSSION: To refute their claim that nothing cars share with the First its genus and be differentiated from it through a specific difference, and that with respect to its intellect the division into genus and specific difference cannot be applied to it
THE EIGHTH DISCUSSION: To refute their theory that the existence of the First is simple, namely that it is pure existence and that its existence stands in relation to no quiddity and to no essence, but stands to necessary existence as do other beings to their quiddity
THE NINTH DISCUSSION: To refute their proof that the First is incorporeal
THE TENTH DISCUSSION: To prove their incapacity to demonstrate that the world has a creator and a cause, and that in fact they are forced to admit atheism
THE ELEVENTH DISCUSSION: To show the incapacity of those philosophers who believe that the First knows other things besides its own self and that it knows the genera and the species in a universal way, to prone that this is so
THE TWELFTH DISCUSSION: About the impotence of the philosophers to prone that Cod knows Himself
THE THIRTEENTH DISCUSSION: To refute those who arm that Gad is ignorant of the individual things which are divided in time into present, past, and future
THE FOURTEENTH DISCUSSION: To refute their proof that heaven is an animal mowing in a circle in obedience to God
THE FIFTEENTH DISCUSSION: To refute the theory of the philosophers about the aim which moves heaven
THE SIXTEENTH DISCUSSION: To refute the philosophical theory that the souls of the heavens observe all the particular events of this world
THE FIRST DISCUSSION: The denial of a logical necessity between cause and effect
THE SECOND DISCUSSION: The impotence of the philosophers to show by demonstrative proof that the soul is a spiritual substance
THE THIRD DISCUSSION: Refutation of the philosophers’ proof for the immortality of the soul
THE FOURTH DISCUSSION:Concerning the philosophers’ denial of bodily resurrection
The End: E-text note
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