Al-Ghazali: Incoherence of the Philosophers

Michael E. Marmura

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Contents:

[PART ONE]

[First] Discussion: On refuting their doctrine of the world's past eternity

[Second] Discussion: On refuting their statement on the post-eternity of the world, time, and motion

[Third] Discussion: On showing their obfuscation in saying that God is the world's enactor and maker...

[Fourth] Discussion: On showing their inability to prove the existence of the Maker of the world

[Fifth] Discussion: On showing their inability to prove that God is one...

[Sixth] Discussion: [On the divine attributes]

[Seventh] Discussion: On refuting their statement that the First cannot share with another in terms of genus...

[Eighth] Discussion: On refuting their statement that the existence of the First is simple...

[Ninth] Discussion: On showing their inability to sustain a proof that the First is not a body

[Tenth] Discussion: On their inability to show the world has a maker and a cause

[Eleventh] Discussion: On showing the impotence of those among them who perceive that the First knows other[s] and knows the genera and species in a universal way

[Twelfth] Discussion: On showing their inability to prove that He also knows Himself

[Thirteenth] Discussion: On Refuting their statement that God... does not know the particulars divisible in terms of temporal division into what is, what was, and what will be

[Fourteenth] Discussion: On their inability to set a proof [to show] that heaven is an animal that obeys God... through its circular motion

[Fifteenth] Discussion: On refuting what they mentioned concerning the purpose that moves heaven

[Sixteenth] Discussion: On refuting their statement that the souls of the heavens know all the particulars that occur in this world...

[PART TWO: The Natural Sciences]

[Seventeenth] Discussion: [On causality and miracles]

[Eighteenth] Discussion: On their inability to sustain a rational demonstration [proving] that the human soul is a self-subsistent spiritual substance...

[Nineteenth] Discussion: On refuting their statement that it is impossible for human souls to undergo annihilation...

[Twentieth] Discussion: On refuting their denial of bodily resurrection...