Reason, Spirit and the Sacral in the New Enlightenment

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Introduction

   • Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

   Pages 1-7

3. Section One

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9

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   2. Reason, Intellect, and Consciousness in Islamic Thought

      • William C. Chittick

      Pages 11-35

   3. Differentiation of the Logos

      • Daniela Verducci

      Pages 37-50

   4. On the Harmony of Spirituality and Rational Wisdom According to the Opus Rasāʾil Iḫwān Aṣ-ṣafāʾ: A Path to Overcome the Crisis in Sciences

      • Detlev Quintern

      Pages 51-67

4. Section Two

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 69-69

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   2. In the Name of God, The Compassionate, The Merciful: Reason and Spirit

      • Seyyed Mohammed Khamenei

      Pages 71-81

   3. Logos Differentiating Reason and Spirit in the Phenomenology of Anna-teresa Tymieniecka

      • Kathleen Haney

      Pages 83-91

   4. Spiritual Paradigm as Origin of the Life’s Capacity in the Sadraian philosophy

      • Hossain Kalbasi Ashtari

      Pages 93-107

5. Section Three

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 109-109

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   2. Reason and Spirit in the Thought of Edmund Husserl, St. Thomas Aquinas, and A.-T. Tymieniecka: Some Complementarities and Supplementations

      • Thomas Ryba

      Pages 111-136

   3. Reason and Spirit in Al-Biruni’s Philosophy of Mathematics

      • A.L. Samian

      Pages 137-146

   4. Reason and Spirit

      • Mohammad Khajavi

      Pages 147-154

6. Section four

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 155-155

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   2. The Debate About God’s Simplicity: Reason and Spirit in The Eighth Discussion of Al-Ghazali’s Tahafut Al-Falasifa and IBN Rushd’s Tahafut At-Tahafut

      • Ilona Kock

      Pages 157-183

   3. Phenomenological Dialectics on Reason and Spirit: Rational Discourses and Spiritual Inspirations

      • Nader El-Bizri

      Pages 185-193

   4. The Mystical Poetry of Shiblī

      • Kenneth Avery

      Pages 195-203

7. Back Matter

   Pages 205-207

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Rationality in its various expressions and innumerable applications sustains understanding and our sense of reality. It is traditionally differentiated according to its sources in the soul: in consciousness, in reason, in experience, and in elevation. Such a functional approach, however, leaves us searching for the common foundation harmonizing these rationalities. The perennial quest to resolve the aporias of rationality is finding in contemporary science’s focus on origins, on the generative roots of reality, tantalizing hints as to how this may be accomplished. This project is enhanced by the wave of recent phenomenology/ontopoiesis of life, which reveals the workings of the logos at the root of beingness and all rationality, whereby we gaze upon the prospect of a New Enlightenment. In the rays of this vision the revival of the intuitions of classical Islamic metaphysics, particularly intuition of the continuity of beingness in the gradations of life, receive fresh confirmation.

• Al-Birundi
• Al-Ghazali
• Mulla Sadra
• New Enlightenment
• Rasa' il Ihwan as-Safa
• Tymieniecka A-T.
• William C. Chittick
• classical Islamic metaphysics
• consciousness
• continuity
• creative imagination
• harmony
• metaphysics
• motion
• ontopoiesis
• our sense of reality
• phenomenology
• philosophy of mind
• rationality
• soul
• spiritual experience
• spirituality
• wisdom

• Advanced Phenomenological Research And, Learning, The World Institute For, Hanover, USA

  A-T. Tymieniecka

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