Dlaczego filozofia jest zła dla duszy? Komentarz do krytyki filozofów Al-Ġazālego
Why is philosophy bad for the soul? Commentary on the criticism of philosophers Al-Ġazālego

Author(s): Karol Wilczyński
Subject(s): Cultural history, Cognitive Psychology, History of Art
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Al-Ġazālī; Islam; philosophy; going astray
Summary/Abstract: In this text, two concepts included in the two are analyzed in the works of Al-Ġazāli - the concept of dispersion (Arabic: tahāfut) and the concept of attachmentto authority (Arabic: taqlīd), which are described in Tahāfut al-falāsifa ("The Dispersion of the Philosophers") and in Al-Munqiḏ min al-ḍalāl (Righteous Scales. Rescue from getting lost). The author tries to show that Al-Ġazālī in his the criticism of philosophy focused not only on theoretical issues, but that one of the key parts of his criticism is also the practical issues concerningway of life. Pointing to specific examples of the use of the two of these concepts to overthrow philosophy, the author proposes a different interpretation the two later works of Al-Ġazāli mentioned above.

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