Jahangir

Neo-Peripatetic/Mashshai

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@shaykhbahai @mashshai_ DM me

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— al-Raʾīs, Dānishnāma-yi ʿAlāʾī, Logic

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@mashshai_ Check your DM.

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@mashshai_ Yes.

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There is no way to behold this man's serene countenance and not sense a nature perfectly ordered toward its telos.

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@SiriusXSimurgh

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Plotinus identifies Zeus with the Intellectual Principle and Aphrodite with his Soul (Ennead III.5.8)

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Plato, Phaedrus 246e–247a

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“Imitation is natural to man from childhood, one of his advantages over the lower animals being this, that he is the most imitative creature in the world, and learns at first by imitation. And it is also natural for all to delight in works of imitation.”

-Aristotle, "Poetics"

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@Armour_02 Ameen. May Allah accept your duas, ease every hardship you're facing, grant you sabr and sakinah, and surround you with mercy and خير

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@SYED_A_L_I @brethrenfpurity Shaykh Jung is in heaven.

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of emulation. If an individual mogs, it increases the likelihood that the individual’s associated beliefs or tradition will be imitated by the herd.

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People are inherently social and imitative, attractiveness is a vector of influence: the majority unconsciously project an admired person’s perceived excellence (in this instance beauty) onto their worldview, making the tradition they embody seem more appealing and worthy

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this is so weird?

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@Armour_02 Brudda, All metaphysics aside, I have not encountered a single Averroist online, Whether on Substack, Insta, Twitter, Telegram, It's usually just fellow peripatetics but never an Averroist specifically. Have you met any actual Averroists? It's probable that his school died out.

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@SYED_A_L_I

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@SiriusXSimurgh Truth nuke. Don't let akhbarfis see this

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@SYED_A_L_I straw-manned, distorted, and misapprehended. This is what happened to him when he was strawmanning and distorting Mulla Sadra's notions before without engaging with his primary works and not apprehending them correctly.

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@SYED_A_L_I A recurring problem in this sphere is the substitution of secondary and tertiary literature for primary texts. People read selected summaries of Y’s work instead of Y himself, then debate an image of Y constructed by someone else. As a result, Y and his notions are prone to be