Modernity and the ideals of Arab-Islamic and western-scientific philosophy : the worldviews of Mario Bunge and Taha Abd al-Rahman /: the worldviews of Mario Bunge and Taha Abd al-Rahman. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: A.Z. Obiedat.
• Authors: Obiedat, A. Z
• Contents: 1- Introduction: 1.1. Dual Misconception of Modernity1.2. Demarcating the 'Religious' from the 'Secular' and the 'Scientific'2- Islamic Philosophy Resurrected: Ṭāhā's Spirit of Modernity2.1. The History of Modernizing Arabic-Islamic Philosophy2.2. Ṭāhā 'Abd al-Raḥmān's Modernity2.2.1. The Structure of the Spirit of Modernity2.2.2. Consequences of the Spirit of Modernity2.2.3. Conditions for a Genuine Application of Modernity3- Construction of Worldview: Similar Functions of Religion and Philosophy (19 pages)3.1. Mario Bunge's Works and the Meaning of 'Systemism'3.2. Mario Bunge as a Worldview Constructor: A Brief Introduction to his Life and Works3.3. Systematic Worldview as the Task of Philosophy3.4. The Place of Mario Bunge in the Tradition of System Building4- Taha's Indictment Against the Philosophy of Actual Modernity (9 pages)4.1. The Creative and Internal Implementation of Modern Criticism4.2. The Ingenious and Local Implementation of Modern Universality4.3. The Innovative and Organic Implementation of Modern Maturity5– Modern Being via Scientific Ontology: The Analytic-Synthetic Structure of Reality 5.1. Rethinking Current Ontological Assumptions5.2. Bunge's Proofs of Reality: Error, Prediction, Control, and Discovery5.3. Bunge's Systemization of the World I: The Micro Structure of Reality5.4. Bunge's Systemization of the World II: The Macro Structure of Reality5.5. Questioning the Supernatural Divine: The Psychological, Ontological, Cosmological, Teleological, Ethical Arguments and the Doxastic Turn6 – Modern Knowing via Realistic Epistemology: Bunge on the Perfectibility and Unity of Human Knowledge (15 pages)6.1. Approaching the Epistemological Problem6.2. The Nature of Knowledge6.3. The Validation of Truth Claims6.4. Reduction and Integration: The Tree of Knowledge7 – Modern Virtuousness via Social Welfare: Bunge on Knowing the Good and Doing the Right (16 pages)7.1. Scientific Humanism7.2. Naturalist Interpretation – A Quick Survey7.3. Scientific Humanism and the Structure of Ethics7.4. Values in Scientific Humanism7.4.1. Nature, Content, and Structure of Values57.4.2. The Hierarchy of Values7.5. The Supreme Good7.6. Morality and Scientific Humanism8. Ṭāhā's Critique of Postmodern Family Ethics 8.1. The Human and the Ethics of Selfhood8.2. Reason and the Ethics of Commitment8.3. Inclusive Attachment to Worldliness and the Ethics of Happiness8.4. The Postmodern Family and the Inversion of Modern Ethical Values8.4.1 The Inversion of Selfhood into Non-self8.4.2 The Inversion of Commitment into Privilege8.4.3 The Inversion of Happiness into Playfulness8.4.4. Ṭāhā's Observations on Ethical Inversions9- Conclusion: Bunge versus Taha on Secular and Islamic Worldviews 9.1. Ṭāhā's Justification of the Spirit of Modernity9.2. Bunge's Systemism: Further ReflectionsBibliography.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 191; Humanism; Islam and humanism
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030942656
• Related ISBNs: 9783030942649
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