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I am Ruben -
Floating around in philosophical reflections
And I write them down, reflections in the water, looking at myself

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How I know
We looked at modes of knowing in the medieval islamic world, and we saw that theories of knowledge were diverse and widespread. Yet they...

The Floating Man
13 dec 20213 minuten om te lezen


The case of the animals against the humans
Another approach to knowledge is through teaching. The Ismaeili sect The Brethren of Purity did this through confronting the student with...

The Floating Man
6 dec 20213 minuten om te lezen


The Occult as a mode of knowing and a way of relating to the world
The world of experience hides in the world of the unseen. How deep is the unseen? What hides beyond the eye? What forces are at play...

The Floating Man
14 nov 20213 minuten om te lezen


Through Experience to Mysticism to Knowledge
I come to know about the world through experience. My senses inform me of objects I encounter in the world. I can investigate them and...

The Floating Man
23 okt 20214 minuten om te lezen


al-Ghazali and the virtues to knowledge
When discussing al-Ghazali we covered his book about knowledge, which is part one in a long list of books, together forming four volumes,...

The Floating Man
17 okt 20212 minuten om te lezen


God as foundation?
This blog was set out by suggesting that in order to have knowledge of the world I need to understand my relation to the world. Ofcourse...

The Floating Man
12 okt 20212 minuten om te lezen


Knowledge as a subjective mode of being - Is knowledge a part of who I am?
I suggest to read this with the following music playing in the background: https://youtu.be/_Nbi6oJsQVQ?t=1330...

The Floating Man
4 okt 20213 minuten om te lezen
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