MES 165 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Abu Hanifa, Moral Agency
6 Nov 2016
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Kalam: discourse on the 6 articles of faith. Human action is not ultimately rational because people aren"t perfect. Action is something completely different from faith (other tribes would believe otherwise because they are a rational people) God cannot have real hands it"s just a metaphorical way to describe his power. M deny the attributes because it doesn"t make sense rationally. A say you"re right on rational level but don"t dismiss the idea of the hand. M think that something cannot come from nothing but abu hanifa argues that. Allah knows everything and he can create things from nothing, arguing that an idea is not existence. Prophet will intercede and help people get out of hell and into heaven=what term. In how the successor should be picked (shiite: family member and strength of the bloodline, have a distinct body of hadith material, whose thoughts in the hadiths were considered acceptable, equivalent of.
