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0:04within the rooms of the famous Apostolic
0:07Palace of the Vatican the beating
0:09religious heart of Rome and The Wider
0:12Catholic world one of the four epical
0:14fathers of the West Renaissance applies
0:17the finishing Strokes to an iconic
0:20Fresco now admired as one of the most
0:22recognizable masterpieces of the
0:25artistic rebirth the School of Athens by
0:29Raphael a legendary depiction often
0:32admired for its Elegance but rarely
0:34dissected in light of its deep
0:36historical theme instantly recognizable
0:40are Plato and Aristotle occupied with
0:43discussion at the center of the frame
0:46with Socrates debating on the side and
0:48uid devising mathematical measurements
0:50in the
0:51foreground however a closer inspection
0:54of the painting exhibits something
0:56uncharacteristic of revisionist
0:58conceptions of Western culture and
1:01history peering over the shoulder of
1:03Pythagoras is a man with bronze skin an
1:07Arab with a turban gracefully wrapped
1:09around his head while an onlooker might
1:12at first rub their eyes with confusion
1:15undoubtedly Raphael had included the man
1:18for some purpose indeed the Andalusian
1:22portrayed was recognized all over Europe
1:25as the preeminent inheritor of the
1:28ancient oases of knowledge the paver of
1:31the path to the Renaissance ibben Rush
1:34the guardian of the philosophers and the
1:37father of
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2:02below Abu aled Muhammad IB Ahmed IB rush
2:06or avaros was born into a long line of
2:09Maliki jurists and Scholars in 1126 CE
2:13not in any illustrious eastern city that
2:16one might commonly associate with the
2:18Islamic golden age but in the
2:20picturesque Western Metropolis of CBA Al
2:23andalus or modernday
2:26Spain by 711 CE the Islamic civilization
2:30had invaded and firmly established
2:32itself on the Iberian Peninsula
2:34throughout the next centuries different
2:36factions would VI for control over the
2:38Lush Mediterranean land ibben rush was
2:41born in the 12th century during the time
2:43of the al- mun or the AL mavids however
2:47the almurabiton rule over andalus would
2:50not last as they were soon overthrown in
2:52a rebellion by the AL or the al- mads
2:56during IB Rush's youth the al- mads were
2:59a dynasty that that at least originally
3:01centered themselves on a deep
3:03theological commitment to a certain type
3:05of monotheism or the heit if you'd like
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3:16[Music]
3:19even Rush would thrive in his career
3:22mostly working as a k or a judge and a
3:26court physician while also maintaining
3:28healthy reports with the philosophically
3:31inclined rulers of his day one account
3:34recalls his meeting with the kff Abu y
3:37yusf who met IB rush and his
3:39contemporary
3:41ibil a curious Statesman Abu inquired
3:45about the not at all controversial topic
3:48of The Eternity of the universe
3:51recognizing the hyp sensitivity of the
3:53issue ibben Rush held his tongue citing
3:56ignorance of the topic the caleff then
3:59turned away and instead engaged in deep
4:02exchange with his friend ibben tfil
4:05sensing the considerable open-mindedness
4:07of the ruler ibben Rush did not rush to
4:11speak up but re-entered the discourse
4:14the resulting conversation was so
4:16riveting that the Charmed kff later
4:19bathed iban Rush with lavish
4:23gifts ibben Rush's intellectual prowess
4:27was not lacking on paper either he
4:29authored books within legal theory that
4:31are still taught within universities
4:33today and did not leave any discipline
4:36untouched this is of course unsurprising
4:39for a scholar who believed that
4:40philosophy was compulsory or far to
4:43engage with and sinful to avoid if one
4:47possessed the ability and talent his
4:49proof was taken from the Quran itself
4:51which emphasizes rationalism and
4:53critical thought and for iban Rush what
4:56is philosophy except critical reflection
4:59and pure
5:02logic there was perhaps an elitist
5:05strand of thought within iban Rush as he
5:07did not believe that most people were
5:09educated or rational enough to actually
5:12do philosophy and so should stick to the
5:14surface level meanings of scripture the
5:17method that led him to this conclusion
5:19was based on a threefold system inspired
5:22by Aristotle's rhetoric this entailed
5:25dividing arguments into the
5:26demonstrative the dialectical and the
5:29torical a model which stratified Society
5:32into their varying capabilities for
5:35rationality the demonstrative method of
5:37reasoning is the tool of the trained
5:39philosopher who through his extensive
5:42philosophical education is able to
5:45directly understand the logical and
5:47empirical Concepts underpinning Reality
5:50by drawing certain inferences from
5:52accepted premises the sophistical modes
5:55of argument were for the theologians and
5:57the masses at large who could not
5:59understand the complexity of reality
6:01holistically but only through the aid of
6:03symbols and metaphors which the Quran
6:06utilizes for their ease thus iban Rush
6:09believed that only philosophers had the
6:11authority to interpret verses of
6:13scripture that were ambiguous and
6:15thereby unlock the true secrets of
6:18reality everyone else was simply
6:20restricted to acting upon the symbolic
6:22or rhetorical nature of scripture as far
6:25as their limited education allowed them
6:27this can be envisioned in the way
6:29chemist
6:30understand the chemical composition of
6:31medicine while the patient sees only the
6:34medicinal liquid yet both practically
6:36benefit in the same manner now that we
6:39understand how ibben Rush earned the
6:41title of the father of rationalism we
6:44must investigate how he became known as
6:46the guardian of the philosophers who or
6:49what was it that he felt such a
6:51responsibility to safeguard Philosophy
6:56from the danger to philosophy begins
6:59begins to occur when the avar roian
7:01three-fold model is not respected ibben
7:05Rush blamed thinkers like Al gazali for
7:07meddling in areas of philosophy where
7:10they ought not to confusing the people
7:13at large leading them astray into areas
7:16of falsehood that are disguised as
7:18rational it is here where we find ibben
7:21Rush's Counterattack to Al gazali's
7:23controversial text the incoherence of
7:26the philosophers culminating in iban
7:28Rush's response the incoherence of the
7:32incoherence this was a defense on behalf
7:35of the ancient philosophers who for IB
7:37Rush had been grossly
7:39misrepresented not only by Al gazali but
7:42also by Al gazali's targets IB Sina and
7:46alarabi in particular IB Rush
7:49problematized the very three
7:50propositions that Al gazali rebuked
7:53these being the eternality of the
7:55universe the question of God's knowledge
7:58and the issue of bodily
8:00Resurrection concerning the eternity of
8:03the universe we saw Al gazali attack the
8:05aasen notion that the Universe had
8:08existed forever along with God for Al
8:12gazali such an idea involved infinite
8:14regress fallacies and entailed a
8:16challenge to God's creative power
8:19however IB Rush emphasized that algazali
8:23misunder understands that a pre-eternal
8:25universe would still be contingent on
8:28God and Allah Al's claim of the creation
8:30of the universe out of nothing is just
8:33as controversial even the scripture
8:35itself is ambiguous on the matter I Rush
8:38goes as far as to suggest that the Quran
8:41itself hints at the form of the universe
8:44being created in time but its matter
8:46already having existed eternally such as
8:50the smoke of Heaven described in the
8:52Quran ibben Rush also favored a
8:55theological proof for God's existence
8:58and criticized the contingency argument
9:00his idea was based on the fact that the
9:03empirically proven fine-tuned design of
9:05the universe hints at a grand inventor
9:08or artist which is God the cosmological
9:12implications thus had little bearing on
9:14his proof of a Creator regarding God's
9:17knowledge Al gazali claimed that the
9:20philosophers deny God's omniscience by
9:22advocating that he is only aware of
9:25universal matters not of particulars
9:28iben Rush response that Al gazali misses
9:30the point it is not that the
9:32philosophers deny God's knowledge rather
9:35they deny that his mode of knowledge is
9:37similar to ours our knowledge is
9:40contingent Upon A correspondence theory
9:42of reality that is our ideas of Truth
9:45are dependent upon the way the external
9:47world really is this is not the case for
9:50God as his knowledge is reality
9:54itself finally in relation to
9:57Resurrection IB r affirms that it is
10:00necessary to believe for True Orthodox
10:03Muslim belief yet he complains again of
10:06the needless debate between Al gazali
10:08and the avenin in which Al gazali
10:11attacks the aasan proposition that
10:13bodily Resurrection is Impossible iben
10:16Rush simply sees that the two groups
10:18agree on Resurrection but disagree on
10:21how this would occur those in Al
10:23gazali's Camp emphasize bodily
10:25Resurrection while the AV ascendants
10:27understand it as a spiritual ual
10:30Resurrection nevertheless while ibben
10:32Rush tolerates both positions according
10:35to their respective educational level he
10:38also believes that on all three matters
10:41algazali oversteps the line in his duty
10:44as a theologian and complains of the
10:46Discord and confusion caused by
10:49attempting to commentate on ambiguous
10:51verses for which he lacks the education
10:54a clear violation of ibben Rush's
10:56three-fold system while the scripture
10:59does indeed speak in corporeal terms for
11:02the masses to easily understand
11:04according to IB Rush Al gazali
11:06problematizes these metaphors and is
11:08compared by iban rush to a patient who
11:11constantly doubts the advice given to
11:13him by a doctor by meddling in matters
11:15that only medical experts should
11:18investigate with exception to perhaps
11:20his juristic Works ibben Rush's Legacy
11:23was not one that would permeate deeply
11:26into the collective thought of the
11:28Muslim world it seems that Al gazali's
11:30dagger was steeped far too deeply into
11:34the neoplatonic tradition preventing any
11:36intellectual Revival even from the most
11:39cultivated of philosophers this should
11:42not however deceive us into assuming
11:45ibben Rush's historical standing was
11:47hampered rather his outlooks
11:49proliferated through Europe like
11:52wildfire kickstarting the reexamination
11:55of ancient oases of knowledge and the
11:58intellectual ual rebirth that would act
12:00as the precursor to Europe's eventual
12:04ascendancy his love of methodical
12:07rational thought marking the Inception
12:09of a fresh class of intelligencia
12:12befitting his own values is captured in
12:15his statement that God has created man
12:18with his intellect intact so that he may
12:21create the world a new every
12:23[Music]
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