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Who is the Mufti's favourite Western philosopher?

His favourite Western philosophers: Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, Diogenes

QuestionLive chat · questioner not identifiedAnswered 16 Feb 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu LaythSegment 26 of 57 in the recording2021-02-16-S26

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Mufti Abu Layth names no single favourite but likes Wittgenstein, Nietzsche and Diogenes, and feels Muslims have been left out of philosophy in recent centuries.

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Asked for his favourite Western philosopher, Mufti Abu Layth says he likes things in each that he does not find in the others: Wittgenstein's uniqueness, and Nietzsche's challenge and the discourse analysis he brought in the Genealogy of Morals. He says it is a tough choice, and that he feels Muslims have in some ways been left out of philosophy in recent centuries, which he calls a shame. Responding to the chat, he adds that Diogenes was 'epic' for his attitude.

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Who is your favourite Western philosopher?

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Mufti Abu Layth says he feels that in some ways Muslims have been left out of philosophy in recent centuries, which is a shame.

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“i feel in some ways that muslims have been kind of left out of philosophy recently in recent centuries which is a shame”

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hmm that's interesting i'll i mean i like the philosophy from many people you know i said a favorite i don't know you know these things i like about each person that i don't see sometimes in the other wittgenstein i like he has this kind of uniqueness to him nietzsche i like the the the challenging

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and the um the discourse analysis that nietzsche brought to the table on the genealogy of morals hmm i mean this is uh it is a tough one um because i feel that there's so many philosophers and i feel in some ways that muslims have been kind of left out of philosophy recently in recent centuries which is a shame which is a shame

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right so all right so we're up to scratch on that your questioning is and manipulative not that's at h raza what is h rosa asking somebody said uh diogenes yeah i uh yeah diogenes was epic i love that about diogenes his whole kind of

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uh that attitude yeah um um hassanat is gonna be on mine trap soon apparently hasanat has reached out to me indirectly saying [Music] he is happy to come on my mind trap so i

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  title = {{Who is the Mufti's favourite Western philosopher?}},
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  date = {2021-02-16},
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  organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive},
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