Religious Philosophy
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Good and Evil: between Ahl Al-sunnah and Ahl Al-kalam.🧵 The Mu'tazilites and the Ash'arites disputed over the issue of the rational determination of good and evil. The Mu'tazilite...
A critical review of Sherman Jackson’s article on his main thesis of “The Islamic Secular” Sherman Abdul Hakim Jackson is an American convert and academic of Islamic studies. Rece...
A common misconception many Hindus have about the Siddhānta, including many Śaiva-s but also others, is that the Siddhānta is centered on the supremacy of a "particular deity". Yes...
This is a boring thread about religious philosophy and a few questions about God’s existence. A lot of deductions so you might want to read slowly, if you care:
Concepts describing refraction&dispersion of light into its component colors -credited to Isaac Newton- were described 700yrs earlier by Ibn Al-Haytham, an Iconic figure in Science...
Vedic Traditions vs Biblical Traditions: Short 🧵 "The Vedic tradition advises people to be busy with themselves, that is their own moral and spiritual improvement. Several discip...
There is a uniquely heretical view in ISKCON, which makes them schism from traditional Gauḍiya Vaiṣṇavaism. ISKCON says that souls "fell" from Vaikuṇṭha after they misused their...
[short 🧵] On the idea of kasb One of the strangest theories to have been formed by the Ashʿarī ʿulamāʾ is the idea of 'kasb' And what this entails is that man cannot do any volu...
