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It is the case that knowledge that carries weight is knowledge about relative knowledges. If a good-willed learner does not understand about the epistemes of his environment it becomes intractible to discuss in free-structured fora.

To discuss the topics of survey, monolith, exploratorive and explanatory research

Surveys are to be associated with inquiries of manifold nature

Both surveys and monoliths consider a topic

Surveys investigate multiple facets of a arosen topic

differences in media, rich and poor types of content are not by all learners known to be paradigmatically different sources.

The dogmatic rejection of the use of large language models in higher learning is bad for two reasons:

1. It sets a bad precedent of not accepting new methodologies
2. It testifies to poor spirit

Discussion of media and alternative methods of instruction are nothing new. Before the creation of the internet teaching was vastly different from the current disposition.

Was it by necessity worse?

I argue to the contrary.

With eid celebrations being well underway it is good custom to reorientate ourselves to our relationship with the Qur’an. Being of philosophical substance I take this opportunity to discuss some words on devotional nature.

One may posit the following definition of divinity:

• God is a force

This seems like a reasonable position to uphold. As the Greeks correlated the extranatural realm with natural forces such as the wind and fire and et cetera.

Another position one can take is

• God is a ideal

This embodiment is interesting since it makes the concept of the divine more “graspeable.” In medieval philosophy God is often characterized as:

• Actus purus
• Primus movens

With the first sharing similarities to God as an ideal and the second relating to traditional interpretations of the God as the entity whose essence cannot be seperated from its existence.

My ideal conception is similar to God as a force.

If there is one thing which I have learned during formal philosophical training is that inquisitiveness i.e. nieuwsgierigheid is a impolite hermeneutic.

There are different conceptions to the ‘aql in medieval Islamic philosophy and the answer to these different conceptions lies in the روح.

Friedrich Nietzsche related creativity to a creative and a destructive drive. I propose that destructive drive or dionysian drive is malaligned with reality. Instead I propose a framework of two drives which are the 1) creative drive, and 2) exploitative drive.

The creative drive wants to create for merely the process of creation itself. This is the “lighter” of the two drives.

The exploitative drive is not bad in the laymans use of the term but instead it refers to “pressing where it hurts” as Harvey Specter from Suits would say.

Another way to look at this framework is to rebrand it as the “initiative drive” and the “purificative drive.”