Chapter 2 The Moral Foundation of Socio-Scientific Episteme

Abstract

Oneness is the prime attribute of God. Divine oneness is the singular moral foundation of “everything” invoking socio-scientific intellection in the Islamic worldview. In this ontological sense, this concept of conscious oneness means that the ultimate and indivisible absoluteness and completeness of creatorship, knowledge, will and power over all things, rest with God alone.¹ Because God's oneness belongs to the domain of purity (Ikhlas), removed from the material and cognized worlds, it marks the topological domain of the fullness and purity of the knowledge stock. It exogenously by itself creates, governs, and acts upon the created universes of all kinds, abstract, and evident. By itself, the precept of oneness of God is not causally affected by anything. It creates all but is never created of itself, or by any other.²

Citation

Alam Choudhury, M. (2011), "Chapter 2 The Moral Foundation of Socio-Scientific Episteme", Baltagi, B.H., Sadka, E. and Alam Choudhury, M. (Ed.) Contributions to Economic Analysis (Contributions to Economic Analysis, Vol. 291), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 15-38. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0573-8555(2011)0000291012