10 min.
Life Journey 3: Intellectual History of Europe An Islamic WorldView
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- Islam
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://azprojects.wordpress.com/2022/07/07/life-journey-3-intellectual-history-of-europe/
We start from the premise that economics in particular, and the social sciences in general, are presented as "sciences", but in fact are eurocentric prejudices. Why is this case? To understand why such an obviously mistaken claim currently dominates the university curricula, we need to look at the intellectual history of Europe. Over a century of bloody religious warfare led to the necessity of rebuilding the foundations of society and state on a secular basis, safe from the controversies of religion. However, one cannot create social sciences without moral foundations. This paradox was resolved by concealing the toxic moral foundations of modern secular sciences in the code word "rationality". Modern social sciences codify lessons from European historical experience, but are not applicable to other societies.
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://azprojects.wordpress.com/2022/07/07/life-journey-3-intellectual-history-of-europe/
We start from the premise that economics in particular, and the social sciences in general, are presented as "sciences", but in fact are eurocentric prejudices. Why is this case? To understand why such an obviously mistaken claim currently dominates the university curricula, we need to look at the intellectual history of Europe. Over a century of bloody religious warfare led to the necessity of rebuilding the foundations of society and state on a secular basis, safe from the controversies of religion. However, one cannot create social sciences without moral foundations. This paradox was resolved by concealing the toxic moral foundations of modern secular sciences in the code word "rationality". Modern social sciences codify lessons from European historical experience, but are not applicable to other societies.
10 min.