Abu Hamid Muhammad ibn Muhammad AlGhazali, better known as Imam AlGhazali for short or Algazel in the West, was a Medieval Persian philosopher who pioneered a form of philosophical scepticism that would work to drastically shift the Medieval world away from Neoplatonic metaphysics.

Predating Rene Descartes by over 500 years, AlGhazali formalised a method of radical scepticism that would work to question the philosophical consensus of the time. In particular, AlGhazali would challenge many of the ideas of thinkers before him, notably Ibn Sina, Al Farabi, Aristotle and Plato and he would do so in a fashion that was internally consistent within the philosophers own methodology. This would be articulated in his landmark text "The Incoherence of the Philosophers" or "Tahafut alfalasifa".

Eventually AlGhazali would grow disillusioned with the academic world, and find solace in becoming a wandering mystic, meandering from city to city within the Abbasid and Seljuk empires. Its from these experiences that AlGhazali would write his seminal guide for spiritual life "Ihya Ulum alDin" or "Revival of the Religious Sciences". But that is a video for another day...

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Introduction 00:00
Personal Life 01:30
Career 02:50
Claim #1 Eternality of the Universe 04:35
Claim #2 Universals and Particulars 06:45
Claim #3 The Unseen World 08:45
Epistemology 09:40
Conclusion 11:25

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