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Marx identified our alienated condition under capitalism, and posited that dialectically overcoming this condition (ie doing so whilst retaining and expanding its benefits) would i...
To my knowledge, Muslim intellectuals have failed to grapple with the fact that – by the standards of virtually everyone pre-industrial revolution – we have achieved the capacity t...
Thread on meat eating. 🧵 Ethical speculation is fine and good – so long as we are aware that even sincere, intelligent people can go astray in their reasoning, often catastrophica...
Most Muslim commentary on evolution is, unfortunately, of poor quality. Recent work by @JalajelDav31180 (Jalajel), @DrShoaibAM (Malik), and now @ZaidAbuHurayra (Zaid) are amongst...
No matter how "convinced" in an abstract intellectual sense someone might be in moral anti-realism or moral scepticism, for the other 99+% of their life when they're not actively r...
"The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in appl...
One evidence of the Prophethood Muhammad ﷺ is how even his smallest mannerism was deliberate, God conscious, and in accordance with a detailed system of etiquette. (1/3) https://t....
@Mohammad_Fikri_ @dcjnq If matter is not ultimately contingent, then why do we even need God? God seems to become ontologically superfluous. Likewise, if physics is on its own suf...
If there is a true religion, it seems God would make its truth knowable and verifiable. (1/10)
SubhanAllah, Surah Yusuf is so prophetic. In Mecca, the Prophet ﷺ is being given the story of a past prophet whose own brothers turned against him, but who eventually became polit...
A quick argument for Platonism, defined here as the view that there exists a realm of intelligible entities outside of the sensible world and human minds, and that this realm is th...
Every science has limitations. Take, for instance, physics: 1. The enterprise of physics is to explain physical states in terms of other physical states. It is outside the remit...