shut up thieves! Calculas was invented and developed over 1000 years prior to both of these thieves in India and was transmitted to Europe by the Jesuits in the 16th century where as usual they appropriated it. Don't believe me? off course... but even now western mathematicians also accepting: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ypxKzWi-Bwg.html
Ibn Sina (Persian: ابن سینا, romanized: Ibn Sīnā; c. 980 - 22 June 1037 CE), commonly known in the West as Avicenna (/ˌævɪˈsɛnə, ˌɑːvɪ-/), was a preeminent philosopher and physician of the Muslim world, flourishing during the Islamic Golden Age, serving in the courts of various Iranian rulers. He is often described as the father of early modern medicine. His philosophy was of the Muslim Peripatetic school derived from Aristotelianism. His most famous works are The Book of Healing, a philosophical and scientific encyclopedia, and The Canon of Medicine, a medical encyclopedia which became a standard medical text at many medieval universities and remained in use as late as 1650.Besides philosophy and medicine, Avicenna's corpus includes writings on astronomy, alchemy, geography and geology, psychology, Islamic theology, logic, mathematics, physics, and works of poetry. Avicenna wrote most of his philosophical and scientific works in Arabic, but also wrote several key works in Persian, while his poetic works were written in both languages. Of the 450 works he is believed to have written, around 240 have survived, including 150 on philosophy and 40 on medicine. Born: Afshona, Uzbekistan Died: 22 June 1037, Tomb of Abu Ali Sina, Hamedan, Iran Influenced by: al-Farabi, Abu Bakr al-Razi, Aristotle, Al-Biruni, Muhammad SAW, Hippocrates, al-Kindi, Galen, More Parents: Setareh, Abdullah Spouse: Yasamin Era: Islamic Golden Age
30:38 I'm a simple minded person, yet I find The Guide for the Perplexed, along side Torah and science, provides a perspective and insight into reality like no other book has. A link between the rational and intuitive
Every materialist reads him wrong. His ontology is subjective idealism and all movement and diversity lies in a still mind that doesn't move. There is no actual movement in the mind. It is non local immaterial there is no movement only the illusion of it therefore his entire ontology is not a cosmology, his cosmology is just metaphoric is ontology is ideal
1. Thanks for reporting on Avicenna's/Ibn Sina's Proof of God by utilising Impossibility/contingency/necessary existence. 2. Was reading Philosophy of Biology and preponsity comes up there as a better way to describe how ppl are 'likely' to behave and potentiate offspring by reproducing. Seems 'prepondence' is now in vogue! (Heard that word a few times in the clip) 3. According to K Popper, Democritus and the Eleatic school of Greece used the 1st deductive reduction argument in attempts to get at the truth of the physical world, and some of those earlier arguments, although ad hoc, are kinda similar to Avicenna's thinking, yet Avicenna applies his thought to considering God's existence... It's nice to also consider how a critical perspective of the argument could lead an atheist to resist Sina's thought in some parts of the demonstration of God's attributes. I wonder how much Ibn Sina was influenced by the Greco critical deductive argument style. 4. Would have been nice to see some illustrations, there's another YT video that has diagrams and refers viewers to watch you, as your sketch is more in depth. 5. It's true the Islamic Golden Age tends to be underrated/overlooked, so again thanks for articulating this Argument for God when you could have not bothered, although you present yourself as a KCL philosopher. I wonder how you'd rank Sina's argument among others aside from Anselm who u briefly mentioned. 6. Is the immateriality of God so as not to be contingent and, the requirement or attribution of it as an 'intellect' related to Ibn Sina's thought of the suspended/flying man to describe consciousness? Is this immaterial intellect and ibn Sina's flying man similar to Descarte's 'Cogito ergo sum' thinking as after doubting everything all Descarte proposed was 'I am' as a source for truth/or something to be certain of. If you're a religious philosophy scholar, it would be interesting to know if you had thoughts surrounding the concept of 'I am'; Jesus for one allegedly taught about 'I am' in the Gospel of John, and it does appear to go to the heart of identity, our humanity & place in the world, maybe do a piece on that concept too, another time? Anyway, thanks!
A collection of random things cannot be contingent because each chain of cause and effect will lead us like this: me->my mother->her mother->her mother->...->common ancestor of all living beings (assuming the theory of evolution for the sake of this reasoning)->causes of the Big Bang. I don't see anything here that would have the essence/definition of a necessary being
Lucifer: Archangel Michael, what can I do for you? Michael: In the name of the Most Holy, I am placing you under arrest. Lucifer: Are you threating me Archangel? Michael: The Most High will decided your fate. Lucifer: I am the Most High!
