Skip to content
Carmelics
TopicsThinkersChangesContributorsLoading account…

    Carmelics

    A reasoning platform. Break down any belief into clear reasons, explore both sides, and weigh the evidence honestly.

    Navigate

    • Topics
    • Search
    • Recent Changes
    • Contribute
    • How It Works
    • Glossary
    • Thinkers
    • Contributors
    • About
    • Statistics
    • Terms
    • Privacy

    Database

    Statements
    —
    Perspectives
    —
    Topics
    —

    Press ? for keyboard shortcuts

    LoyalLoyalJusticeJustice
    Made withinDC&Austin
    Statements
    321,452
    Perspectives
    108,905
    Topics
    42
    Home/Original/inverse
    See Original
    Inverse View

    It is not the case that Every human being can attain individual felicity of the hereafter

    ?Set your confidence on the premises below to see your aggregate.

    Reasons For

    2 perspectives
    Reason for 1 of 2
    ?
    • 1.Al-Farabi holds that theoretical intellect must reach actualization for felicity, a process requiring sustained philosophical education.
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    • 2.Sustained philosophical education is structurally unavailable to those in deficient political regimes, which Al-Farabi himself identifies as the majority of actual cities.
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    • 3.Therefore, the material conditions for universal felicity are systematically absent for most human beings under Al-Farabi's own political philosophy.
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    Reason for 2 of 2
    ?
    • 1.Aristotle's doctrine of natural slavery, influential on medieval Islamic Aristotelianism, holds that some humans lack the rational capacity for full eudaimonia.
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    • 2.If cognitive variation across humans is sufficiently deep and innate, the universalist claim requires denying that felicity tracks rational actualization at all.
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    • 3.Denying that felicity tracks rational actualization contradicts the Farabian framework's own intellectualist account of what felicity consists in.
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    Reasons Against

    1 perspective
    Reason against
    ?
    • 1.Attaining felicity of the hereafter requires learning about common objects of knowledge
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    • 2.Common objects of knowledge can be learned in at least two ways
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    Next step

    Based on where you are in your exploration

    Strongest counterpoint
    Explore the most compelling reason on the other side.