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The Ceiling of Reason: A Thousand-Year Argument Over Intelligence and Wisdom

At a Glance From an eighth-century definition of intellect to the rise of artificial intelligence, the question of what reason can and cannot do has never really settled. This article traces a thousand-year argument within Islamic thought—from Imam Ja’far al-Sadiq to al-Ghazali and Ibn Rushd—and brings it into conversation with contemporary thinkers who have arrived […]

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