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toledocavani | 8 months ago

Who is al-Ghazali? I searched and found the Iraqi phisolopher, but couldn't understand how he is related

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tkiolp4|8 months ago

We westerns do the know much about the Socrates from the eastern side of the world. I can only imagine people from there know who al-Ghazali was just like we know who Sartre was.

So, im gonna try and read something by al-Ghazali.

akoculu|8 months ago

Let me explain myself on this;

When this happened, people started making assumptions. A few of them:

1. I’m irrational 2. I’m angry 3. I’m greedy

They came to one of these conclusions, based on how they see themselves in the same position.

I can be of course one of these three in some other situations, but in the left pad incident, I done all purely with my heart, to stick to my values and principles which was behind my motivation to do open source for such a long time.

Ghazali is the best source I’m aware of about how to put heart in the driver seat of life, and without fighting but using logic, greed, anger etc as tools.

If my reference made curious about him, I couldn’t be more happy. Here’s a great lecture about his book, The Alchemy of Happiness: https://youtube.com/watch?v=zBwWc0DflRQ