THE KNOWLEDGE-BASED WORLDVIEW IN IPE


This chapter is extracted from a lecture given by the author 
at the Faculty of Economics, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 
during his Visiting Professorship between April and September, 1994.

 

Our objectives in this chapter are first, to point out that dualism, perception and world view have substantive meanings of their own. These in turn are instrumental in the development of theory constructs and institutions in their different frameworks. We will show that dualism and perception are the basis of occidentalism and are opposed to the precept of world view. Secondly, the world view construct is substantively defined by what will be termed as Unification Epistemology. This premise will be shown to hold critical place in the understanding, development and perpetuation of the Islamic world view. Thus, once formalized and institutionalized in such an order, Unification Epistemology plays the key role for the realization of world view. The prime embryonic and pervasive institution of Shura, the Islamic consultative agency, is then shown to assume meaning and to govern a uniquely universal process in knowledge domain. This process will be described and instrumentalized here as the Shuratic process.

Dualism

Formal Idea of Dualism

Concept of Dualism and Economic Theory

Formalism in Dualism Between Matter and Spiritual

Perception

Formalism of Perception in Relation to Dualism and Plurality

Scientific Methodology Affected by Perception and Dualism

Deductive and Inductive Disjunction in Methodology Caused by Perception 
and Dualism (Plurality)

Perception in the Methodology of Natural Sciences

World View

Epistemological Characterization of the World View

Resource Allocation in World View Concept and in Neo-Classicism

Formal Definition of the World View: The Epistemic-Ontic Circular Causation 
and Continuity Model of Unified Reality

Nature of Empirical Estimation in the World View Model

The Congruence of Shuratic Process with the Epistemic-Ontic Model

Conclusion

 

 

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