8 What Happens to a Society That Rejects Cause and Effect?

Lifelong Learning With A. A. Khatana · Sep 7, 2026 · 20m

For centuries, a quiet battle was fought not on military fields, but within the minds of classical scholars. The core tension was simple: is the universe governed by stable, rational laws we can discover, or is everything subject to a completely unpredictable divine will?In this episode, we sit down to analyze the deep philosophical division between the rationalist Mu'tazilites and the traditionalist Ash'arites. When the state-backed Ash'arite framework triumphed, it fundamentally altered how a civilization viewed nature, declaring that physical objects possess no inherent properties of their…