Seyyed Hossein Nasr - Can Many Religions All Be True?

[@RickDelmonico]

Speak the truth as you understand it. All debates should move in the direction of understanding.

[@lukeabbott3591]

I need to read some of this guy's books. He seems like one of the smartest people Robert's had on the show.

[@waqarahmed7947]

آپ کو قرآن مجید لازمی پڑھنی چاہیے ،اپنی موت سے پہلے

[@henrythoreau645]

Yes, he is very smart.

[@IleSpasev-hk8vw]

The chain of Teacher-Student is: Rene Guenon - F. Schuon, then prof. Seyyed H. Nasr. Prof. Nasr is most approachable of all 3, but you need to read all 3 to apprehend his thought IHO. You won't regret it.

[@MohamedElouarda-qk6ws]

The most important philosopher since 1800 to me...

[@danishhussain7127]

"The Reality is not exhausted by the physical world in which we live"

[@justsomeone8899]

I do not understand this statement, can you explain please?

[@yurialbinger3169]

​@justsomeone8899 I assume it means that there is more to Reality than the physical world.

[@Solarimeshari]

I wish you could interview Abdul Hakim Murad who is a pronounced Sufi thinker. His ideas are illuminating.

[@missuscarmen]

Sufism is not Islam however. I'm sure they would like you to believe it is but I assure you, it is a sect that went off the rails but pre-existed Islam as Zorastrianism. Sure, they have some insight but I'd advise against taking it all without a healthy dose of salt and historical fact.

[@Servantofthegenerous]

I love Abdul Hakim! Agreed! Salaam brothers and sisters! 🙏

[@sayedtalhahassan6213]

@@missuscarmen Madam, don't come up in certainty without any research upon it, Sufism is western adopt name, real name of Sufism is ilm ul ehsan ( knowledge of divine), that was the teaching of prophet Muhammad ﷺ and after his death Ahlul bayat ( family of prophet Muhammad ﷺ teach this art), or which logical reasoning sufi use, we called it, illm ul kalam ( knowledge of articulation) so we Sufia practice islam with soulful emotion.....hope you will understand, you should read good Islamic resources...i know wahhabi influence clinch Sufism or portray them as deceiving practice.... May God bless all of us...

[@Caligula138]

What happened with starting every clip with stating the question to the guest?

[@naveenkumaruthamanthil3579]

Beautiful....impeccable.......only such inclusive thoughts can save humanity

[@TehNetherlands]

Dr. Nasr explains exactly why Islam is so dangerous to the advancement of human civilization. At 2:00, "Even the word secular doesn't exist in Arabic and Persian"

[@Phantom-ez4zv]

@@TehNetherlands Error, try again.

[@TehNetherlands]

@@Phantom-ez4zv Let me fix your username to make it more in line with reality: "Warrior of Imaginary God"

[@Phantom-ez4zv]

​@@TehNetherlandsSo you go about KZbin assuming what people think , and speaking on their behalf, that's your niche i see.

[@mysticape9386]

@@TehNetherlands oh let me fix your name "Netherlandsdouche". Ok there you go :)

[@Christianity_and_Perennialism]

The esoteric doctrines of every religion show us that ultimately there is no difference between subject and object, and thus every object is a reflection of its subject. This is how the multiple religious can be simultaneously true. Because in a very real sense they are subjective.

[@MrDanAstro]

He mentions what sounds like " prail " philosophy ? I'd love to have an understanding of what he's referring to. He caught my eye with his interactions with Wolfgang Smith concerning vertical causation.

[@manamimnm]

Perennial Philosophy

[@JHS270694]

Why isn't this brilliant mind not more prominent in the Muslim community? Absolutely scandalous!

[@zccau2316]

He is a fucking perennalist lol. He is a herratic based on consensus

[@ethanjones8093]

Muslims prefer to act like CHAZ anarchists if anything new comes along.

[@missuscarmen]

Because he touts Sufism which is not accepted by either us Shia and most certainly not by the hard core extremists of Sunnism. He's neither here nor there in terms of the Islamic Umma. He is a smart fellow but unfortunately he has caved to the social pressure of presenting the 'spiritual' hobby horse that always rocks this way and that. Islam is not a popularity contest anymore than can you measure Islam by any one of the Muslims representing it. I'd encourage you to read the Nahjul Balagha in order to get to the core of who follows who in Islam.

[@lollercoaster247]

@@missuscarmen Dr. Nasr is a Shia himself and he was a student of Allameh Tabatabai as well as other great Shia scholars. Irfan (mysticism) has a deep history amongst us Shias. True, Sufism didn't have such a great reputation amongst the Shia jurisprudents , but that was because some Sufi tariqahs had pretty much set themselves up as paths that ignored the Ahlul Bayt and called people to deviation.

[@mirowestmaas4566]

​@@missuscarmenhis ideas are the future of Islam and all religions

[@nazmunnahar9184]

Where is the full discussion?

[@ThriveWithLouise]

The Ultimate Truth is Allah is The First and the Last

[@fr3d42]

Lol

[@nobodyisborngayislam]

​@@fr3d42idiot

[@surendirenparthasarathy9087]

@@fr3d42 If allah was the absolute truth why wasnt he worshipped by the caveman and why didnt they speak the language.

[@nicholasdolinger6745]

The problem faced by Traditionalists is that this syncretic approach to all religions places the individual subject in an epistemically privileged position, with the liberty to sort out for oneself independently how the parts cohere to create a perennial wisdom. This way of going about religion is anything but traditional: Only modernity can create a system where features of diverse and doctrinally distinct religions can be separated from their context and re-assembled to form the sophia perennis. Still, I think the position of the Traditionalists is a very sympathetic one and in its broad contours are an appropriate response to modernity. Perennialism is at its best when it is checked by the orthodoxy of a single tradition, which is held above all as the supreme arbiter of religious truth. Only by this method can Traditionalism be saved from the thermodynamic tendency of open systems to wash away and annihilate difference

[@ApollonianSoldier]

This belief (that traditionalism is modernistic) has been going on around in Islamic and Christian circles for a while now, it seems people are not aware of the works of Plutarch or Plotinus, or of other thinkers in the Classical, Hellenistic and Medieval times who have done great comparative religious work. There is no re-assembling of the religious beliefs of each religion, there is simply a removal of the veil, a return to a higher level of understanding. By no means does this mean that different religious systems are useless, and we should replace them with an amalgamation of all of them (thats New Age drivel), which is why most serious perennialists adhered to a single tradition, like Guenon, Schuon and Coomaraswamy. But ignoring their inherent similarities would be ignoring the truth.

[@zyphos9444]

Traditionalism actively rejects syncretism. Many Perennialist thinkers agree that any particular Tradition has developed in the way that it has for many reasons and should be adhered to in full, rather than through a syncretic piecemeal approach. I believe this approach of adhering to a single orthodox Tradition while acknowledging that the sophia perennis can be found in others affirms rather than denies the teachings of the Traditionalists while solving the problem that you've presented.

[@thinblacktie3364]

The question I have for those who make this argument, that the perennialists place individuals in a position of epistemic privilege, is how do you determine whether a given religious orthodoxy is true? Is it not necessary for the individual to make this judgment? This issue is unavoidable whether one is a perennialist or not.

[@EzraYalanBenjamin]

It is not so that the individual is in any kind of privelliged postion vis a vis the Truth. That individual, no matter what they may believe about their own individuality, has still not grown up in a vacuum. Even in the modern West, there are still a fair amount of remnants of spiritual culture here and there which form the background to how the individual thinks, analyses, accepts or dismisses concepts- and an Englishman will still differ from an Italian in how he thinks. By your logic, Europe should never have become Christian at all because the actual revelation was not delivered to Europeans by its initial prophet, but only by subsequent teachers, who persuaded people to convert (though in some cases authorities forced them too). Christ lived in Israel and none of his followers were Messiah (or potential Messiah) level prophets. Likewise with those areas in which Islam spread after Muhammed's death. What right did the Arabs have to replace Zoroastrianism with Islam- or Persians (those who did choose, at least) to choose Islam over Zoroastrianism? What right did Europeans have to choose Christianity over Paganism? Neither should have happened, by your logic, because the system proper to them was either Paganism or Zoroastrianism- those individuals who were forced or chose to convert had no business doing so- at least in your view. On the other hand, though, what must happen if the tradition of a people becomes ill- suited to them or is lacking in some way? As was the case with many Pagans in Europe who chose to convert to Christianity? Or many modern Europeans like myself who (understandably) find modern Christianity unsatisfying? Or Rene Guenon's conversion to Islam? Were they not individual choices made (potentially) under Divine guidance? We all choose what we believe based upon what we know, think and how we are guided- but our individuality is not solely a product of ourselves, and therefore the Traditionalist position does not place the individual- nor any particular tradition, either, given that they too were put together by people who made choices- in a privelliged position.

[@BruceWayne-ri4wr]

Tradition list is the true meaning of these religions. Islam and Christianity can't both be completely true. If Christianity is true then Islam it makes Islam false. It doesn't mean they don't believe in the same God. It just means they're distorting it into something else, which is what they do they say. Christ was not crucified when historically we know this happened. Is this sure as we're standing here? Even atheist philosophers will tell you that yet Islam claims it didn't happen so that pretty much invalidates Islam right off the bat

[@hussamliterature8754]

That’s mean the religions can’t manifest themselves without particular and it’s obviously when he was given example of triangle

[@0NOTHINGNESS0]

Finally the TRUTH

[@shahirnaga4507]

Most people will answer the questions. It's a closed question. Yes or No Philosophers tend to beat around the bush and still not answer the question

[@aiya5777]

only children choose one, adults choose both grow up kiddo

[@Irene-m9n8b]

Sir, this is an irrelevant question which all 3 Abrahmic religions are pursuing for more than 2000 years ,most violently by Islam followed by Christianity. This question is related to acquisition of power on earth.

[@fr3d42]

I have a better question : can all religions be false?

[@hanifsoul]

Analogy triangle particular and triangle universal can't fit with foursquare particular and triangle universal. Different Religion particular is like triangle particular and foursquare particular compare to just triangle universal

[@rizwanrafeek3811]

Seyyed Hossein Nasr did not answer the question.

[@1stPrinciples455]

Only if all religions are tolerant of other religions. Eg. Buddhism. All religions must recognise that no one of them can prove their God. Belief is ok but intolerance and murdering others is wrong

[@mohdanas3863]

Yeah definitely saw how tolerant Buddhists are in Myanmar.

[@1stPrinciples455]

@@mohdanas3863 your statement proves ignorance. To you terrorism is Buddhism. Also proves you talk with little understanding of Buddhism. Its like there are shiites and sunnis. Many terrorist organisations also hide behind Islam to legitimise themselves. Islamic terrorism is not Islam teachings. Its terrorism. Your IQ is appalling.

[@aiya5777]

believe it or not, from science we learned that the safest creature to kill is human nature ain't gonna miss you, human

[@javierborda8684]

If secularism is never going to work in Islamic countries, this would also apply the other way around.

[@rses916]

and? no one wants to turn the secular countries into Islamic ones.

[@javierborda8684]

@@rses916 what!? No one!?

[@sunset2.00]

True. muslim dont want to rule the west as power hugry people but want just not impede in the main practice of islam for muslims to be better practicing muslim and others can be endured.So no insulting OK.

[@faisalniazi1899]

❤️

[@fuadarif4056]

Perennial philosophy is a rational ideology trying to be the authority of all religion.

[@lebanesegooner]

it's not because on what basis does perennial judges what is the truth? they have no grounds to stand on to say where each tradition went wrong

[@threestars2164]

The authority of perennials is derived from Protestantism. Would perennialism exist without Protestantism? I would say no. For the priesthood of believers which they most certainly subscribe to is a protestant tenet, not something found elsewhere.

[@lebanesegooner]

@@threestars2164 which proves that its philosophy is flawed f

[@ইয়াসিরআরাফাত-থ৭ভ]

Great to say.♥♥

[@veraklas2994]

Ke tumi

[@ইয়াসিরআরাফাত-থ৭ভ]

@@veraklas2994 why??

[@oscar1748]

Jesus said: I'm the Truth John 14.6

[@djalals.moharrer5510]

CIA agent!

[@ifeedonjinsdadjokes4135]

His accent is so difficukt to understand.

[@Not2BadFIFA]

Easy to understand for me. Like reading a children's book.

[@belayethossen5225]

Very easy to understand to me!

[@combatantezoteric2965]

@@Not2BadFIFA that's because you are Iranian like him!!

[@hatidza7701]

He is also over 80 yo in this video, I wish I would be able to talk like this when I'm 80 :)

[@imamekrim9291]

Islam is the true religion . God says in Quran: the religion of God is islam..that mean the religion acceptable of God is Islam . christians and jews are mentioned in Quran..God says in Quran : no compulsion in religion.

[@kekule71]

idiot

[@imamekrim9291]

D.B. Cooper the prophet Muhammad was illiterate it s one evidence that s he s messenger and prophet ...who told me idiot ..I didn't mean he s illiterate as you inderstand...I did mean he s ingorant.

[@imamekrim9291]

D.B. Cooper you want talking about pathetism and hipocrisy so give your proofs or you want just waste time

[@d.b.cooper1721]

+imame krim If I wanted to waste my time I would devote my life to following an iron age illiterate goat herders medieval teachings. As for a definition of ignorance, you have provided that already by using your sky daddy's special book as some sort of evidence to back your religious supremacist 'my sky daddy is better than their sky daddy' claim.

[@imamekrim9291]

D.B. Cooper I didn't t asked what your dad thinks it about...I didn't asked how you definite the ignorance ....because I didn't definite it..you didn't give it any proof..so as I said you just waste time.

[@AcidRain64]

"Secularism" is another one of those concepts, like the whole "coexist" thing, that *seems* reasonable on the surface, but only superficially. When you actually stop and think about secularism and "coexistence", in the context to which they both refer (religious beliefs), they're absurd. It makes no sense whatsoever to ask someone who believes in a god (THE highest authority) to, on some issue, set that gold standard authoritative belief aside in favor of mere "human opinions." It's really just laughable. Religion (and ALL unjustified beliefs) need to go away. Once they do, and we all start operating in the same, real world, people will start agreeing on a hell of a lot more things than they do right now.

[@alihammadshah]

+AcidRain64 Humans are not robots they don't think homogeneously. What is this stupid cult like every one will agree mindset. Every one even without religion will still have universal moral values and thn particular values a person or group will share. Why not strive for freedom of conscience instead of annihilation of religion?

[@PalePinkThink]

We philosophers work with reason, some people are just unreasonable.

[@TehNetherlands]

@@alihammadshah Because religions like Islam make it painfully clear that they cannot coexist with more reasonable, rational and universally true and applicable wordviews based on the ideas of the enlightenment.

[@TheRoadRaider]

@@alihammadshah I agree with you. I am from eastern Europe and I can tell you that this oversecular - atheist - technocratic cult is the beginning of communism.

[@ethicalmemeing7060]

@@TehNetherlands First of all, you cannot generalise Islam. Islam has more than 70 sects with sometimes, radically different beliefs. Had you paid attention to your history classes, you will not make this blunder, by saying that Islam cannot coexist with other opinions.

[@TehNetherlands]

Dr. Nasr explains exactly why Islam is so dangerous to the advancement of human civilization. At 2:00, "Even the word secular doesn't exist in Arabic and Persian"

[@safaesaber954]

@Nosh GAMSAT1 you're right Only religions insist on morality .

[@abirayan8125]

What do you know about Islam? Go and find the truth then talk rubbish.

[@TehNetherlands]

@@abirayan8125 I learned about l$Iam by reading the Quran and observing how the religion manifests in the real world. I am not the least bit impressed, and consider it to be a dangerously backward religion of intolerance and superstition.

[@Watermark0n]

@@TehNetherlands Oh boy you've read some Islamophobe site throwing together all the stupid sounding bits for the purpose of mockery. I'm sure you are one of understanding.

[@TehNetherlands]

@@Watermark0n No need to read anti-l$Iam websites. I personally know several people who have left l$Iam and the mere fact that this is a taboo speaks volumes about the deeply intolerant nature of the religion itself. It absolutely disgusts me.

[@testing-je7yz]

Wolve In sheeps clothes, this guy does not represent Islam, in fact only the Quran and the Sunnah (prophetic sayings) represent Islam. We have Muslim of both extreme (political, Sufi (saint worshipping)) and far right extremists who are concerns with power and control,khawarij. If you want to understand Islam jus read 'Tafsir ibn kathir' apps, iOS etc

[@Watermark0n]

Salafist wahabbi garbage. Purge your mind of that nonsense.

[@zakmuhammad9499]

@@Watermark0n How about No! There’s no such thing as a Wahhabi. That’s a made up term by the people of desires and innovation to justify their wrong actions/sins. Go read the Quran and take a look at the Ahadiths and you’ll quickly see which group of people are doing their best to follow the Quran and Sunnah and which group follows their desires thinking they know more than Allāh and His Messenger ‎ﷺ. Wake up. This life is short. Following any path other than the guidance that Allāh has sent his Messenger Muhammad‎ ﷺ on will only land you in hell! Be a Muslim of action and not by name! May Allāh guide you got the Truth!

[@swordlord4096]

@@zakmuhammad9499 how many times does the Quran mention to love the family of the prophet? The prophet pbuh left the Quran and the ahlulbayt as his successors. You might disagree with this but if you read history about the tragedy of Thursday, ghadeer, and the sahaba that sided with Ali then you will see what I am talking about. Read verse 33:33 And also 42:23 Say: I do not ask of you any reward for it but love for my near relatives; and whoever earns good, We give him more of good therein; surely Allah is Forgiving, Grateful. (Sura Shuraa 42:23)

[@zakmuhammad9499]

@Ahmad Shamil Read his book once and come back to me.

[@zahrahosseini2839]

Come on can we just all be Muslims?why do u wanna proof that only sunnah is the real islam?that really doesn't matter ,u do you .why can't we have a muslim community that all the Muslims can live with each other..... and as a shia I get so much hate from my sunni brothers and sisters ....I mean i really don't care if ur shia or anything else....at the end of the day we all believe in Allah and the prophet (pbuh)and we all believe in after live and pray five times a day