Descartes And Al-Ghazali Skepticism Analysis

In this essay the ideas of skepticism given by Rene´ Descartes and Al-ghazali will be examined in the light of philosophical views. It will be examined that how the ideas of both philosophers were similar and ran parallel to each other in order to establish the epistemology of truth. It will be argued that the thoughts and solution presented by both was different in terms of religious theology as the thoughts of Descartes revolved around the idea of secularism and natural science while that of Ghazali remained in the bounds of Islam and mystic thoughts.
The main idea of skepticism states that there is no belief without pure justification. The beliefs must be backed by reasons and proofs. Descartes was a western philosopher while Al-Ghazali belonged to east. Descartes is philosopher of modern era but he is influenced by old and ancient philosophies. He brought revolutionary changes by his ideas and …show more content…
They say that senses are not valid source of information as they may give false information in state of dreaming (Smith, 2007). In his views anything that is not building on strong certain arguments is not knowledge and it’s just a false concept. He stated that the knowledge should be certain form the core of its foundation. If the knowledge is not having a strong foundation form the initial stage all the knowledge that is built upon is not credible. While the concept of knowledge that ghazali held was that it is attained from God and his teachings. He tried to find out the answers about the existence and acquisition of knowledge. He also tried to find out the way knowledge can be justified, but the final solution of Descartes was the fact of his own existence rather than that of God (Griffey,