KASYKUL

Contents: Introduction Necessary Causality Resolution of the Problem Hume and Ghazali Ibn Rushd on Ghazali Introduction Ghazali has been one the most influential philosophers the world has ever seen. He has been called the most original philosopher of Islam. His demolition of Greek philosophy in Tahafut-al-Falsafa (Incoherence of the Philosophers), is considered a turning point in the history of philosophical thought. It is fascinating that Ghazali adopts the methods of logic and reason (i.e. philosophy itself) to demonstrate the conclusion of neo-platonic thinkers are invalid. Necessary Causality Although in modern western philosophy Hume is well known to have denied necessary causality, Ghazali several centuries earlier had done the same. Necessary causality is the idea that the relation between a cause and its affect is necessary and always true. Ghazali gives us an example. When a piece of cotton is bro...