Formulation of the Claim
Modern thought is understood here as the capacity to produce creativity and new knowledge, not merely to repeat what already exists.
Explanation
Modern thought is presented as a field that goes beyond the closure characteristic of traditional religious thought, because it opens onto the generation of new knowledge and different forms of understanding.
Its Place in the Book’s Argument
This idea comes within the general trajectory that links epistemological critique with the possibility of renewing our view of thought. It is connected to the broader context of the atlas, which brings together the nine books and shows their positions and relations within the overall structure.
What the Atom Does Not Say
The text here does not specify the precise meaning of “modern thought,” nor does it explain the mechanisms of producing new knowledge; it limits itself to affirming the general direction of the idea.
Brief Evidence
I do not have enough time here to recover all my theories about the Islamic mind, my explanations of it, and my clarifications. The same goes for the religious mind in general, the philosophical mind, and the mind at work in the fields of the human and social sciences… I only want to point out that there is no need to draw a dividing line between the religious mind and the mind of the human and social sciences. Why? Because the human and social sciences have an inclusive, comprehensive, and always critical methodological and epistemological strategy. In the end, the religious mind is nothing but one field among several for the intervention of critical, creative, and innovative knowledge in the human spirit; but modern mind, or the mind of modernity, also adopts positions that lead to biased theoretical systems, indeed even mo
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