In this episode, we will look at how the disagreement among Ash'arite and Mu'tazilite mutakallimun about human agency caused them to wonder whether the whole enterprise of kalam was at risk and would crumble like a house of cards. What was at stake was the effectiveness of a certain form of argument which many early mutakallimun frequently used to prove that the world was created by God: analogical reasoning. For, was one justified to draw an analogy between humans as agents and God as agent if one did not actually believe that humans ARE agents? Tricky...!
Music by:
Mystery Bazaar Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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