Seyyed Hossein Nasr - Can Many Religions All Be True?

we are immediately confronted by the fact that there are two polls that determining the way we think one is in a sense universalism on its particular ISM for example you think of a triangle a triangle is a triangle is a universal mathematical concept but you never see triangle you say this triangle you plain pool and there is that triangular figure you put the balls in that's particular triangle and so our experience oscillates both mentally and outwardly between what you call the universal and the particular in the philosophical sense you see incredible universal characteristics which manifests themselves and all the religions for example do unto others and others would have to do unto you or some formulas similar to it it's different from specific moral action in different religions but it's a spiritual moral quality that is as universal as you found everywhere so everywhere even within Christianity Judaism Islam Buddhism Hinduism Shintoism wherever you are in a sense you have a particularity of that universal principle on the middie physical level is even more evident first of all reality is not exhausted by the physical world in which we live this reality has a transcendent and imminent aspect to it and between us that on that reality which is boundless and without finitude there are levels of reality which separate us perennial philosophy also respects particularity within each religion and considers it to be very important because there is no path to either truth or the truth without being a path for somebody Islam as remarkable Universal characteristic which it shares let's say with Christianity and Judaism by the same time it has its own particularity for example the adamant refusal to distinguish between the Kingdom of Caesar and the kingdom of God even the word secularism doesn't exist in Arabic and Persian and the way that we are not trying to force the separation upon Middle Eastern countries is never going to because it doesn't go with how they understand God and themselves and the role of religion and life and everything else we live in a world today in which whether we like it or not awareness of other world views other religions other cultures has become a necessity and therefore prayer philosophy has a very important role to play in revealing both the universality of religious truth and the particularity of religion in different clones with which Western men or Eastern men come in contact today but Islamic philosophy like traditional Christian Jewish philosophy like in do philosophy is one of the great schools of parental philosophy and it itself in a sense is both Universal the aspects of a church reconfirm the peril philosophy and as particularity z' which pertain to the Islamic world where it has grown and manifested itself

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Keywords: Hossein Nasr (Author), Religion (TV Genre), Philosophy (Field Of Study), Theology (Field Of Study), Islam (Religion)

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Length: 3min 5sec (185 seconds)

Published: Tue Nov 24 2015