Ibn Arabi and the Akbarians are Neoplatonists ? | Seminar No. 25 | Special Session | Hasan Spiker |

I wanted to start today by saying that aquarianism is not and never has been neoplatonic barbarianism is not neoplatonic I've never said it's neoplatonic ever promise you that and uh it isn't nail platonic so what people have mixed up is I've put a little quote from an unpublished article of mine in the in the WhatsApp so on The View which is the modernist view that all philosophical systems are entirely discrete fundamental fundamentally isolated perspectival phenomena only coherent according to the stipulations of their self-definitional structures philosophical Notions are not commensurate so what do I say humbly who cares what I say but it right it's not because of linear influence there was an earlier school of thought that thought that he had read that now why is that the case it's partly the case because when Muslim Scholars some like malasadra and others started citing the Theology of Aristotle again it was much much later you don't find the work cited earlier okay second of all both sides of this debate are mistaken why because those who are saying oh no no my other law what a horror the idea that there could be any neoplatonic influence on Urban Arabi are coming from this half literate pseudo-ashari perspective right that doesn't know anything about philosophy and the reason they can't even countenance the idea that you could have commensurate Concepts which are independently discovered is because they've never had the experience of doing another themselves humbly personally speaking and I'm sure it's the case for all of you I've often reasoned to a conclusion the night that I then find in a book later I didn't take it from the book but I find that it matches the conclusion that I find later and then usually the reasoning matches but of course the roots of reasoning can be very difficult they're very different Okay so this supposedly Pious attitude which actually does immense harm to the dean because it makes us into that world religion's Blind Faith model