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“You should never employ your intellect but only that it is not essential to exercise it in order to live a humane life. Language permeates all of life, of course, and one's mind is essential to it, but that does not mean intellectuality should transcend all of life.”

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The propensity to intellectualize is itself both essential and dangerous. I think in our modern world we are much more aware of its essential…

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Certainly in order to understand the natural world one needs clarity, logic, and the capacity for theory building. But that understanding tends to improve…

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I think the approach to Islam as a tradition is helpful. Tradition helps us to focus on questions about authority and temporality, and about…

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Language has multiple uses, and is embedded in different forms of life. It is not necessary to have this grand concept of "humanity" in…

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