Abu Bakr al-Razi (Rhazes)
854–925 · Islamic Philosophy · Prominent
Razi was a Persian physician of Rayy, one of the greatest doctors of the medieval world and its most notorious freethinker. He threw out prophecy and revelation. God hands out reason in equal measure to everyone, so nobody needs a prophet, and taking a thing on authority is no way to believe it. Five things always existed, he held: God, Soul, Matter, Time and Space, with matter built of atoms and the world shaped by a craftsman god.
Signature
The position Razi is most identified with in the Profiler:
- Ignorance
- leans Bondage
- Theology
- Deism
Positions on the 2 axes the sources answer
- Nature of Reality
- leans Unity (25 on a 0–100 scale from Unity to Multiplicity)
- Ignorance
- leans Bondage (25 on a 0–100 scale from Bondage to Bliss)
18 of 20 axes are left blank: the sources do not answer them, or Razi refused the framing. Nothing is imputed; a blank is not a middling score.
Foundational questions
- Theology
- Deism
What is your position on the existence and nature of God or gods? - Highest Good
- Wisdom
What is the highest good? - End of Things
- Final Liberation
What is the ultimate end of all things? - Knowledge
- Sense Experience / Pure Reason
What is the ultimate foundation of knowledge? - Beginning of Things
- Demiurgic
What is the origin of reality? - Authority
- Rational Expertise
What is the legitimate source of authority? - Death
- Ascent of the Soul
What happens at death? - Role of Emotion
- Obstacle to Reason
What is the proper role of emotion?