Hermeneutics Features in the Thought of Muhammad Rkoun, Its Mechanisms, and Its Limits

Abstract

Arkoun seeks to employ all procedural tools, concepts, perceptions, and approaches that have been decided upon in the Western humanities and social sciences, and all philosophical and critical theories produced by Western experiences, such as “discourse analysis trends” and “literary criticism”. What distinguishes Arkoun is that he does not adhere to a particular theory, but selects from theories and concepts that are compatible with his hermeneutics of religious thought.

Although he is aware of the obstacles facing such dealing with Islamic thought, he sees the need for Islamic thought to be liberated from all forms of cognitive and methodological backwardness that it suffers from, by establishing a new way of religious thinking that is open to the achievements of modernity and is not subject to technological precedents. , and moving away from the line of reverence, and the position of conformity.

The researchers used the comparative analytical method in their study and reached a set of results, the most important of which is: (Arkoun) believes that complete understanding is a realization of complete ignorance, because the intellectual possession of the concept, with the realization that concepts are not always continent, but rather they are constantly evolving through the development of knowledge. , where it acquires semantic and pragmatic values ​​with frequent use and its entry into new fields of knowledge. It then quickly evades the dominance of conceptual thought with the increase of its cognitive dimension in search of its function of use. Interpretation, as Arkoun says, is not immune from evading such a development over the time of its use. Its long history, and its entry into multiple fields of knowledge, also earned it the character of evading the dominance of conceptual thought, in search of its interpretive function. In order to obtain less evasion, it is necessary to unite various sciences in our hermeneutical approach.