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Talk · Harvard Divinity School · 2014In the Beginning Was Consciousness
88 min
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An hour and a half at Harvard on consciousness as the ground of things rather than a product of them.

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Islamic metaphysics · perennial philosophy

Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Iranian-American philosopher and scholar of Islam (born 1933), University Professor of Islamic studies at George Washington University. He studied physics at MIT and the history of science at Harvard, returned to Iran to teach, and has written for sixty years on Islamic metaphysics, Sufism, the sacred in nature and what the traditions hold in common.

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