塔哈·阿卜杜拉赫曼

作品

• 1994评价遗产之方法的更新

  反对用借来的工具、零碎地阅读遗产：必须把它作为一个整体，并用出自其自身论辩学科的方法来评价。

• 2006现代性的精神

  现代性并不等同于它在西方的实现：其精神建立在成熟、批判与普遍性的原则之上，伊斯兰的现代性能够以自己的、伦理的方式实现这些原则。

立场

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.

生平与背景

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.

其他主要作品

• 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)