TY  - GEN
AB  - This is the first study to compare the philosophical systems of secular scientific philosopher Mario Bunge (1919-2020), and Moroccan Islamic philosopher Taha Abd al-Rahman (b.1945). In their efforts to establish the philosophical underpinnings of an ideal modernity these two great thinkers speak to the same elements of the human condition, despite their opposing secular and religious worldviews. While the differences between Bunges critical-realist epistemology and materialist ontology on the one hand, and Tahas spiritualist ontology and revelational-mystical epistemology on the other, are fundamental, there is remarkable common ground between their scientific and Islamic versions of humanism. Both call for an ethics of prosperity combined with social justice, and both criticize postmodernism and religious conservatism. The aspiration of this book is to serve as a model for future dialogue between holders of Western and Islamic worldviews, in mutual pursuit of modernitys best-case scenario. A. Z. Obiedat is an Assistant Professor of Arabic Language and Culture at Wake Forest University, USA. .
AU  - Obiedat, A. Z.,
CN  - B821
DO  - 10.1007/978-3-030-94265-6
DO  - doi
ID  - 1448120
KW  - Humanism.
KW  - Islam and humanism.
KW  - Humanisme.
KW  - Humanisme
LK  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-030-94265-6
N2  - This is the first study to compare the philosophical systems of secular scientific philosopher Mario Bunge (1919-2020), and Moroccan Islamic philosopher Taha Abd al-Rahman (b.1945). In their efforts to establish the philosophical underpinnings of an ideal modernity these two great thinkers speak to the same elements of the human condition, despite their opposing secular and religious worldviews. While the differences between Bunges critical-realist epistemology and materialist ontology on the one hand, and Tahas spiritualist ontology and revelational-mystical epistemology on the other, are fundamental, there is remarkable common ground between their scientific and Islamic versions of humanism. Both call for an ethics of prosperity combined with social justice, and both criticize postmodernism and religious conservatism. The aspiration of this book is to serve as a model for future dialogue between holders of Western and Islamic worldviews, in mutual pursuit of modernitys best-case scenario. A. Z. Obiedat is an Assistant Professor of Arabic Language and Culture at Wake Forest University, USA. .
SN  - 9783030942656
SN  - 3030942651
T1  - Modernity and the ideals of Arab-Islamic and western-scientific philosophy :the worldviews of Mario Bunge and Taha Abd al-Rahman /
TI  - Modernity and the ideals of Arab-Islamic and western-scientific philosophy :the worldviews of Mario Bunge and Taha Abd al-Rahman /
UR  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-030-94265-6
ER  -