Krytyka nauki przez odniesienie do holizmu wiedzy w myśli Seyyeda Hosseina Nasra oraz Ismaila al-Faruqiego

• Authors: Figas-Skrzypulec Justyna

Title variants

EN

The critique of science in the light of epistemological holism in the thought of Seyyed Hos‐ sein Nasr and Ismail al‐Faruqi:

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The paper presents a cognitive, educational and philosophical strategy, sometimes called reconstructionism (as it denotes e orts to reconstruct knowledge and science), proposed by a number of Muslim authors as a proper reaction to modern science. The pre‐modern background for this reaction is highlighted. Two examples are given: the Islamic science idea by Seyyed Hossein Nasr, and the Islamization of knowledge project by Ismail Raji al‐Faruqi. Their critique of Euro‐Atlantic science is based on its perceived e ects on society and morality (secularization, imperialism and colonialism, cruelty towards labora‐ tory animals, etc.) as well as on tawhid, the Islamic idea of unity. Their main postulates are to stop calling modern science objective and universal because this is a purely Western product; to produce an alternative indigenous science; to make science conform with Islamic doctrine and ethics; to reintroduce holism and sapiential aspects of knowledge into science. Critical voices, both Muslim and non‐Muslim, are quoted. All in all, reconstructionism is evaluated as a movement understandable to some extent but ine cient and idiosyncratic, unable to start objective and interesting research programmes on its own.

Keywords

EN

science and religion; Islam; Islamic science; Islamization of knowledge; philosophy of science; tawhid; holism; pseudoscience; secularization

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Pedagogiczny im. KEN w Krakowie, Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii
• Journal: ARGUMENT: Biannual Philosophical Journal
• Year: 2016
• Volume: Tom: 6
• Issue: Numer: 1
• Pages: 195-208

Dates

published

2016

Contributors

author

Figas-Skrzypulec Justyna

• Uniwersytet Papieski Jana Pawła II w Krakowie, Katedra Filozofii Przyrody

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