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MORAL AND RELIGIOUS
TEACHINGS OF AL GHAZZALI
THE NATURE OF MAN[1]
Though man shares with the other animals external and internal senses, he is at the same time also endowed with two qualities peculiar to himself, knowledge and will. By knowledge is meant the power of generalisation, the conception of abstract ideas, and the possession of intellectual truths. By will is meant that strong desire to acquire an object which after due consideration of its consequences has been pronounced by reason to be good, It is quite. different from animal desire, nay, it is often the very opposite of it.
- ↑ Ihya iii 1.
