ibn Harm

Category: Ramadan

  • On Eros

    It is certain that humans become closer to one another and then distance from another and this repeats.

    Praise be to God the last few generations (from around 2000 or so) know the value of just being in the room together.

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  • Is metaphysics possible? (#1)

    Todays lecture will concern the topic of the possibility of metaphysics God-willing.

    It can be argued for various reasons that metaphysical investigation is intrinsically impossible since its aim, which following Aristotles deliverance is to investigate being qua being. As such it follows that metaphysical inquiry can be considered to be ephereal since it seems absurd to think that objective knowledge about the fundamental constitution of reality is possible from the works of entities that make up that same reality.

    If humans live in the world of being how can they be expected to come to true conclusions about the principles that temporally come prior to their (the human) substances?

    Let us muse together on this question and see if we can formulate some answers to this extended question in following lectures.

  • On progress #2

    The possibility of progress in philosophy seems evident given that humans sometimes recoil in disgust when considering past actions.

    Coincidentally this seems a differentiating principle vis-a-vis humans and animals since animals do not seem to have physical responses to previous behaviour.