Formulation of the Claim
Arkoun calls for redefining the concepts of reason, heart, the wondrous, the astonishing, and the supernatural.
Explanation
The debate does not stop at a single term; rather, it is connected to a network of interwoven concepts that determine how knowledge is understood and where its limits lie. For this reason, there is a need to regulate the relationship between reason, feeling, and the theological dimension that surrounds these concepts.
In this context, redefining these terms becomes part of a broader reconsideration of how meaning is constructed within Islamic discourse, not merely a linguistic or terminological adjustment. The issue concerns how functions are distributed among these concepts within the argument itself.
Its Place in the Book’s Argument
This atom comes within a trajectory that revisits the central concepts on which the discourse rests, and reveals that the disagreement is not limited to a single idea but extends to the framework within which it is understood. It is connected to nearby theses that reexamine the limits of knowledge and the ways the sacred, the wondrous, and the supernatural are represented.
Limits of the Claim
This claim does not amount to offering a final definition of each concept, nor does it reduce Arkoun’s thought to a mere classification of terms. Nor should it be burdened with what it does not contain: the construction of a closed system or the formulation of an exhaustive lexicon.
Brief Evidence
By these we mean. The social, classes, peoples, nations, the various civilizational heroes, the emergence of the prophet, but the launch point they give or establish, or the heroes who found civilizations I mean. These heroes are distinguished by the instruments they use, the psychological impulses that drive them in that they rely on the complex phenomenon called “revelation,” and stir in the group the missionary hope of the ultimate salvific world after death. This is what others, the great ones, cannot do, but if we have suspended the theological determinations imposed on these concepts, then we can easily merge the logic that leads to
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