Taha Abderrahmane

Dzieła

• 1994Odnowa metody w ocenie dziedzictwa

  Przeciw czytaniu dziedzictwa pożyczonymi narzędziami i we fragmentach: trzeba je oceniać jako zintegrowaną całość i metodami wywiedzionymi z jego własnych dyscyplin argumentacji.

• 2006Duch nowoczesności

  Nowoczesność nie jest tożsama ze swoją zachodnią realizacją: jej duch opiera się na zasadach dojrzałości, krytyki i uniwersalności, które nowoczesność islamska może urzeczywistnić na swój własny, etyczny sposób.

Stanowisko

Taha Abderrahmane first became known as a critic of Mohammed Abed al-Jabri. In “Renewing the Method in Evaluating the Heritage” (1994) he objected that al-Jabri’s critique of “Arab reason” had cut the heritage into pieces with tools borrowed from modern European thought, keeping the rationalist Averroes and discarding Sufism and kalam. The heritage, Taha argued, must be evaluated as an integrated whole and with methods drawn from its own disciplines, such as the art of disputation and the theory of legal sources. In logic he developed a theory of argumentation suited to natural language and to dialogue. In ethics he defined the human being not by reason but by ethics: reason detached from ethical practice is incomplete, and he distinguished an abstract, a guided and a supported reason. “The Spirit of Modernity” (2006) separated the “spirit” of modernity – the principles of maturity, critique and universality – from its Western realisation, so that an Islamic modernity could realise these principles in its own, ethically grounded way. In later works he developed a “trusteeship paradigm” (itimaniyya), in which human beings act as trustees of what God has entrusted to them; from this standpoint he criticised both secularism and the political instrumentalisation of religion.

Życie i kontekst

Taha Abderrahmane was born in 1944 in El Jadida, Morocco. He studied philosophy at Mohammed V University in Rabat and then at the Sorbonne, where he wrote a doctoral thesis (1972) on the linguistic structures of ontology and later a doctorat d’État (1985) on the logic of argumentation and natural reasoning. For several decades he taught logic and the philosophy of language at Mohammed V University in Rabat. He has written about the role of spiritual experience in thought, drawing on Sufi sources. His books, written in Arabic, have been widely discussed in the Arab world and since the 2010s increasingly in English-language scholarship.

Dalsze główne dzieła

• Language and Philosophy (Langage et philosophie, 1979)
• Religious Practice and the Renewal of Reason (al-ʿAmal al-dīnī wa-tajdīd al-ʿaql, 1989)
• Renewing the Method in Evaluating the Heritage (1994)
• The Jurisprudence of Philosophy (Fiqh al-falsafa, 1995–2005)
• The Question of Ethics (Suʾāl al-akhlāq, 2000)
• The Spirit of Modernity (2006)
• The Spirit of Religion (Rūḥ al-dīn, 2012)