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John Locke

Cited in 3 segments across 1 recording · 2019 · person/person:john-locke

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4 Aug 2019From the Mind of a Mufti What is liberalism, and do liberals have to follow John Locke? Liberalism is essentially a stance against authoritarianism, not allegiance to historical philosophers. Agreeing with Locke on one point does not make anyone a Christian or bind them to his whole philosophy. Discussionposition checkedMohammed HijabJohn LockeThomas HobbesJean-Jacques Rousseau machine6 min 19 s6:24on YouTube

4 Aug 2019From the Mind of a Mufti Ethics evolve: slavery, human agency and the genetic fallacy Mufti Abu Layth argues that if ethics do not develop over time and only seventh-century ethics count, one would have to say slavery is fine, since the Quran acknowledged its ubiquity without abolishing it at the time, which he calls ridiculous. He says people hold liberal attitudes without having read Locke or Rousseau, being capable agents, not automatons. By the lecture's logic, he says, everything in Islam first championed by others would belong to them, as Socrates and Plato spoke of God and the soul first, which he calls an infantilising theory. He gives his own opposition to capital punishment, shared by most people in Europe, as an example of a view held without allegiance to Rousseau, Locke, Bentham or Bertrand Russell. Discussionposition checkedMohammed HijabJohn LockeJean-Jacques RousseauSocrates machine5 min 06 s24:46on YouTube

4 Aug 2019From the Mind of a Mufti 'Islam gave these rights first' and blinding people with jargon Mufti Abu Layth addresses the lecture's point that Islam gave rights such as voting 1,400 years before the suffragettes, saying that is fine to mention but people alive in 2019 will ask why Muslim rulings are still backward today, so it is nothing to gloat about. He criticises dropping philosophical names and terms that impress those who do not know them but make Muslims look weaker to those who do, as some did in arguments for God, and parodies such jargon. He says a real discussion would define liberalism and admit that some fascist versions of it exist and can be dangerous, but that liberalism is an attitude against imposed authority, not a separate religion. He concludes that the lecture was a straw man resting on Locke, Hobbes and Kant, and hopes Mohammed Hijab might reflect on it. Discussionposition checkedMohammed HijabJohn LockeThomas HobbesImmanuel Kant machine6 min 08 s37:17on YouTube