Truth Trial
Three papers on the theory of knowledge, the origin of ethics, and the historicity of the text
A new book in the Arab philosophical library, it addresses three important philosophical issues: the theory of knowledge, the origin of ethics, and finally the historicity of texts.
The first paper of the book addresses the epistemological theory of knowledge, entitled “Human Thought and the Truth of Knowledge.” It discusses how human knowledge is acquired in the mind, based on the rules of human thought and the structural foundations of epistemology. It also examines the reasons why philosophy is at the top of the cognitive sciences and the aspects of separation between it and natural sciences such as physics. It also discusses epistemological doctrines such as empiricism, pragmatic relativism, and existentialism, and provides an independent critical reading of the projects of the Scottish philosopher David Hume and the German philosopher Immanuel Kant, as they are the most important projects of modern philosophy and the most present in contemporary public intellectual consciousness.
The second paper, titled "Is the Source of Morality Natural or Metaphysical?", examines the origin of morality by returning to the common origins of naturalism and metaphysics. It discusses contemporary doctrines such as social contract theory, pragmatism, Marxism, and existentialism, while offering a critical perspective on contemporary claims from modernism and postmodernism, and the implications that make these ideas widely accepted in our current reality.
The last paper, entitled: The Historicity of the Text, deals with the theory of historicism proposed by the modernist Mohammed Arkoun in the middle of the last century from a philosophical linguistic perspective. It presents in detail the doctrine of modernism in historicizing the text and what results from framing the text within a purely historical framework, in addition to analyzing the doctrines of textual historicism such as Marxism, deconstruction, the theory of the death of the author, and the theory of multiple readings, in addition to the dangerous consequences of the historicity of the text such as entering into the labyrinths of cognitive relativism.