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Islamic Philosophers

On Music

AmirAli Maleki listens to music from an Islamic perspective.

Perhaps the most important pre-requisite for doing good philosophy is awareness, depth and precision concerning our everyday lives and surroundings. In this, the philosopher is like a shopper who stands in front of a shelf in the local supermarket, constantly spotting new things that might be of use. That shelf is our life, and everything in philosophy depends on this care in studying what might otherwise be routine. Therefore, we should learn to philosophize at the peak of being alive; and that time is every morning when we wake up.

Islamic philosophers of the middle ages paid a lot of attention to the most basic aspects of life in the times in which they lived.

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