Browse Philosophies
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Al-Farabi
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Al-Farabi imagined politics as a branch of philosophy and prophecy as its highest civic art: if a city could be educated to see the truth, it might be ruled by someone who joins the philosopher’s reason to the prophet’s imagination.
Al-Ghazali
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Al-Ghazali entered philosophy as one of its most brilliant practitioners and emerged as its most unsettling critic: a thinker who used reason to expose reason’s limits, then turned to disciplined spiritual knowledge as the mind’s truer home.
Avicenna
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A physician trained to diagnose bodies as if they were puzzles of motion became the philosopher who gave one of the boldest arguments ever made for self-awareness: the soul, stripped of all sensation and circumstance, would still know that it is. Avicenna’s “floating man” turned introspection into a metaphysical clue.