He was criticizing allah in his poems and was famous for his scientific achievements https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Khayyam
"When Allah mixed my clay, He knew full well My future acts, and could each one foretell; If I can only do what He designed, Is it then just to punish me in hell?"
"Why would Allah give to zealots like you — A maggot-minded, starved, fanatic crew — Secrets he kept from far more learned men? Well, what does it matter? Believe that, too!"
"You say rivers of wine flow in heaven, is heaven a tavern to you? You say two huris await each believer there, is heaven a brothel to you?"
Carrier: Nuestra Senora De Atoc (hft-63v)
...continued from here (links to Omar and Al-Ghazali)
Tahafut al-Tahafut
The Incoherence of the Incoherence
Philosophical response to al-Ghazali's "The Incoherence of the Philosophers"
in 1095, the original came out
somewhere around just after 1180 the refutation was written, about 100 years later.
Presentation -- links to opening passage of Chapter 1 of "2 Years 8 Months and 28 Nights" which adds to "1001 nights" (as previously mentioned, the most censored work in the world); and is a Novel by Salman Rushdie, whose family name was changed by his Father to honor Ibn Rushd, and who wrote this novel with one of the main characters being Ibn Rushd and his battle with al-Ghazali. The rest of the chapter is in the Comments. Salman Rushdie, of course, also wrote some excellent and famous novels which earned him a death-sentence from the autocratic leader of Iran. continue reading the first chapter here. Or, much better still, buy yourself a copy.
Let's look at one chapter of this book, The Incoherence of the Incoherence:
>THE THIRD PROOF FOR THE ETERNITY OF THE WORLD
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>Ghazali says:
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>They insist on saying: The existence of the world is possible before its existence, as it is absurd that it should be impossible and then become possible; this possibility has no beginning, it is eternally unchangeable and the existence of the world remains eternally possible, for at no time whatever can the existence of the world be described as impossible; and if the possibility never ceases, the possible, in conformity with the possibility, never ceases either; and the meaning of the sentence, that the existence of the world is possible, is that the existence of the world is not impossible; and since its existence is eternally possible, it is never impossible, for if it were ever impossible, it would not be true that the existence of the world is eternally possible; and if it were not true that the existence of the
I am excited about this section, and glad to have gotten to it.
After this class, I believe it is time for us to add a few new lenses through which to view these conversations.
This is the period with which I am least familiar, this Part 4 Era. We are calling this period the "Catholic Era" and we have used "Medieval" "Middle Ages" and all sorts of titles interchangeably throughout this course.
The sloppiness was purposeful. Too many definitions, not happy to stick to one. Will use whatever fits my purpose at any time.
However, most people are aware that the writings of Aristotle and Plato and the ancients were preserved for Europe by Islamic thinkers.
Today we get to look at a war of ideas inside that Islamic world, and end with one of the thinkers from that world who did the passing on of this legacy to the West.
For those who want to hear from an atheistic voice at this point in the class. We have two in that link. The second is the poetry of Omar Khayyam.
Omar Khayyam was a student of Avicenna (Ibn Sina) who, like our previous Catholic thinkers, wrote hundreds of works covering a wide variety of subjects. Theology, Logic, Mathematics, Physics, Geology, Poetry, Alchemy, Astronomy, etc.
Of the 150 or so books that he wrote which survive for us today, 40 of them are medical texts. And he is most famous for writing On the Physics of Healing (where he wrestles with epistemological questions of authority in science and using empiricism to decide on the truth; as well as the interdisciplinary nature of such an inquiry; the principles and processes of nature at work in the body which should or should not be used to conceive of the origin of illness and obtainment of wellness; a metaphysics for how physics can be used for medicine; Can we have a random material world and expect to make sense of a science of healing?; definitions of "possibility" and "probability" as concepts (we will see more of the wrestling with this kind of question soon); definitions of "motion" and other physical concepts necessary to do his science of health; (a silly joke: I CAN IMAGINE A SICK OR INJURED PERSON BEING HANDED THIS BOOK, ON HEALING, and GETTING 100 PAGES IN and still not finding any practical advice), but we should notice the mission and the project as perceived by the author to have a kind of full knowledge fully justified--Page 1
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Can anyone explain me this proof of the cubic equation root (parabola intersects circle)? Up till this point I understand how things work (as seen in the picture link below), but from here on I just can't figure out how to find the value of (s). I also looked for explanations on the internet(Omar Khayyam cubic equation), but I did not understand. Maybe the circle properties that I have shown could be of big help. But I could still not figure out the value of (s).
The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon
Turns Ashes—or it prospers; and anon,
Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face
Lighting a little Hour or two—is gone.
