This chapter will explore elements of panpsychism within Iqbal’s thought. To do so, we will first offer a brief overview of panpsychist thought—provide a brief summary of its history and development, highlight its advantages over its alternatives, and describe the varieties of panpsychist thought as articulated by its most prominent advocates. We will then bring Iqbal into the panpsychist discourse by highlighting selections of his writings that seem to display panpsychist qualities. Based on these selections we will situate Iqbal’s ideas within the panpsychist discourse. As mentioned previously Iqbal offers a very limited articulation of his own metaphysical ideas, and he did not articulate these ideas in a systematic way (establishing premises, anticipating, and resolving counterarguments, etc.). His metaphysical vision is stated briefly without explanation of how he arrived there. With this in mind, this chapter will look at Iqbal’s position, what can be classified as a form of cosmo-panpsychist emergentism, and, locating it within the context of the greater panpsychist discourse, articulate its strengths. And then finally we will explore what Iqbal adds to the conversation and how we might utilize Iqbal’s thought as a means to carry the conversation further within an Islamic context. The utility of Iqbal’s panpsychism in addressing the issue of evolutionary theory will be discussed in Chap. 7 .

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Panpsychism and Iqbal

  • Logan David Siler

摘要

This chapter will explore elements of panpsychism within Iqbal’s thought. To do so, we will first offer a brief overview of panpsychist thought—provide a brief summary of its history and development, highlight its advantages over its alternatives, and describe the varieties of panpsychist thought as articulated by its most prominent advocates. We will then bring Iqbal into the panpsychist discourse by highlighting selections of his writings that seem to display panpsychist qualities. Based on these selections we will situate Iqbal’s ideas within the panpsychist discourse. As mentioned previously Iqbal offers a very limited articulation of his own metaphysical ideas, and he did not articulate these ideas in a systematic way (establishing premises, anticipating, and resolving counterarguments, etc.). His metaphysical vision is stated briefly without explanation of how he arrived there. With this in mind, this chapter will look at Iqbal’s position, what can be classified as a form of cosmo-panpsychist emergentism, and, locating it within the context of the greater panpsychist discourse, articulate its strengths. And then finally we will explore what Iqbal adds to the conversation and how we might utilize Iqbal’s thought as a means to carry the conversation further within an Islamic context. The utility of Iqbal’s panpsychism in addressing the issue of evolutionary theory will be discussed in Chap. 7 .