AI Robots & Faith: Is Reason against Religion? Plato, Kant, Hegel, Ibne Arabi | Ahmad Javaid Podcast

In this insightful episode of the OTS educational podcast series, we feature scholar and poet Ahmad Javaid, alongside co-host research scholar Shamsuddin Hassan Shigri. The discussion delves into the debate: Is reason opposed to religion? Scrutinizing ideas from Western philosophy to Islamic mysticism and Sufism, as well as perennial wisdom, artificial intelligence and new atheism.

Exploring philosophical and theological constructs concerning idea, existence, reason, knowledge, and human consciousness from the foundational works of Plato and Aristotle to the modern insights of Immanuel Kant, Georg W. F. Hegel, and Karl Marx, and further extending to influential Muslim figures such as Ibn Arabi and his contemporaries, Ahmad Javaid embarks on an in-depth inquiry into this thought-provoking debate.

Join us as we navigate through centuries of thought, examining the intersections and divergences between faith, reason, and intellectual discourse.

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00:00 - 03:42 Highlights
03:42 - 05:21 Prelude: Guests & Topics
05:21 - 10:43 Reason, Innate Ideas & Consciousness
10:43 - 13:10 Tawhid: A Universal Reality
13:10 - 18:00 What Is Religious Reasoning?
18:00 - 32:40 Three Schools of Classical Philosophy
32:40 - 42:52 God & Paradoxes in Philosophy
42:52 - 45:17 Rationalism vs Materialism
45:17 - 49:42 Greek Method: Reason with Skepticism
49:42 - 54:52 Reason in Shia Islam?
54:52 - 1:00:06 Reason according to Quran
1:00:06 - 1:04:04 Failure of Philosophers
1:04:04 - 1:07:27 Atheism: Example from China
1:07:27 - 1:10:10 Islam, Modernity & Militancy
1:10:10 - 1:14:53 Triumph of Empiricism
1:14:53 - 1:16:48 Marx & Darwin: Philosophy Today?
1:16:48 - 1:22:36 Demystifying Reason with Rumi & Iqbal
1:22:36 - 1:26:09 Reason vs Love: A Sufi Discourse
1:26:09 - 1:33:32 Suhrawardi to Ibn Arabi: Philosophy vs Sufism
1:33:32 - 1:37:06 Scrutinizing Sufism
1:37:06 - 1:43:58 Concluding Remarks
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