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Abstract

According to Iqbal the universe is not an illusion but he believes in the reality of it. His conception of the universe is far from that of the Greek Idealists like Plato and close to that of some German Idealists like Fichte, Schelling and Hegel, and also to Bergson and Whitehead. He rejects the materialistic conception of the universe and says that it is a system of egos and events. He is also very close to the modern physicists like Einstein, Max Planck and Heisenberg. According to him the universe is not a finished product but is an ever expanding and creative phenomenon. He is well aware of the paradigm shift of science which was taking place at the end of the eighteenth century and in the beginning of the twentieth century. He is against any conception of the world which leads to mechanistic determinism.