Religious Criticism of Scientism: The Subjectivity of Taufīq al-Ḥakīm in the Short Story “Fī Sanah Milyūn”

Yulia Latifi; Mohammad Muslih

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Religious Criticism of Scientism: The Subjectivity of Taufīq al-Ḥakīm in the Short Story “Fī Sanah Milyūn”

Authors:

Yulia Latifi | Mohammad Muslih

Publisher:

Istanbul University

Main Topics:

Din Araştırmaları

Journal:

darulfunun ilahiyat Vol.34 Issue 1, pp.257-281

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

7/2023

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2001293195

pISSN:

2651-5083

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Abstract:

 This paper studied the Egyptian modern short story Fī Sanah Milyūn by Taufīq al-Ḥakīm. The story tells us about the advancement of science and technology which was at its peak in 1000 CE, when people were made immortal. Then, they abandoned metaphysics. The radical Subject that destroyed the scientism structure then appeared by giving up his life. The question to be answered in this paper is: how did the Subject destroy tyrannical scientism and why? The analysis revealed that scientism deprived humanity of human beings and it was necessary for the radical Subject to destroy it. Through his scientific findings, the radical Subject created a transcendental paradigm of science as his criticism of positivistic scientism. The Subject built a fantasy about the eternity of God and the mortality of human beings as the replacement for scientism that had thrown God away from the picture and made human beings immortal. The movement of the author is a movement of an empty and split Subject. To seek fulfillment, the Subject kept moving to approximate The Real, namely a scientific order that had a transcendental-religious paradigm containing ordered values and honored the humanity of human beings.

 This paper studied the Egyptian modern short story Fī Sanah Milyūn by Taufīq al-Ḥakīm. The story tells us about the advancement of science and technology which was at its peak in 1000 CE, when people were made immortal. Then, they abandoned metaphysics. The radical Subject that destroyed the scientism structure then appeared by giving up his life. The question to be answered in this paper is: how did the Subject destroy tyrannical scientism and why? The analysis revealed that scientism deprived humanity of human beings and it was necessary for the radical Subject to destroy it. Through his scientific findings, the radical Subject created a transcendental paradigm of science as his criticism of positivistic scientism. The Subject built a fantasy about the eternity of God and the mortality of human beings as the replacement for scientism that had thrown God away from the picture and made human beings immortal. The movement of the author is a movement of an empty and split Subject. To seek fulfillment, the Subject kept moving to approximate The Real, namely a scientific order that had a transcendental-religious paradigm containing ordered values and honored the humanity of human beings.

 This paper studied the Egyptian modern short story Fī Sanah Milyūn by Taufīq al-Ḥakīm. The story tells us about the advancement of science and technology which was at its peak in 1000 CE, when people were made immortal. Then, they abandoned metaphysics. The radical Subject that destroyed the scientism structure then appeared by giving up his life. The question to be answered in this paper is: how did the Subject destroy tyrannical scientism and why? The analysis revealed that scientism deprived humanity of human beings and it was necessary for the radical Subject to destroy it. Through his scientific findings, the radical Subject created a transcendental paradigm of science as his criticism of positivistic scientism. The Subject built a fantasy about the eternity of God and the mortality of human beings as the replacement for scientism that had thrown God away from the picture and made human beings immortal. The movement of the author is a movement of an empty and split Subject. To seek fulfillment, the Subject kept moving to approximate The Real, namely a scientific order that had a transcendental-religious paradigm containing ordered values and honored the humanity of human beings.

 This paper studied the Egyptian modern short story Fī Sanah Milyūn by Taufīq al-Ḥakīm. The story tells us about the advancement of science and technology which was at its peak in 1000 CE, when people were made immortal. Then, they abandoned metaphysics. The radical Subject that destroyed the scientism structure then appeared by giving up his life. The question to be answered in this paper is: how did the Subject destroy tyrannical scientism and why? The analysis revealed that scientism deprived humanity of human beings and it was necessary for the radical Subject to destroy it. Through his scientific findings, the radical Subject created a transcendental paradigm of science as his criticism of positivistic scientism. The Subject built a fantasy about the eternity of God and the mortality of human beings as the replacement for scientism that had thrown God away from the picture and made human beings immortal. The movement of the author is a movement of an empty and split Subject. To seek fulfillment, the Subject kept moving to approximate The Real, namely a scientific order that had a transcendental-religious paradigm containing ordered values and honored the humanity of human beings.

Article Details

Religious Criticism of Scientism: The Subjectivity of Taufīq al-Ḥakīm in the Short Story “Fī Sanah Milyūn”

Authors:

Yulia Latifi | Mohammad Muslih

Publisher:

Istanbul University

Main Topics:

Din Araştırmaları

Journal:

darulfunun ilahiyat Vol.34 Issue 1, pp.257-281

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

7/2023

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2001293195

pISSN:

2651-5083

Criticism of Scientism

Relation Between Science and Religion

Arabic Literature

Taufīq al-Ḥakīm

Žižek’s Subjectivityarabic literature

Žižek’s subjectivity

science

trancendental paradigm

humanity.

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Article Details

Authors: Yulia Latifi | Mohammad Muslih

Publisher: Istanbul University

Main Topics: Din Araştırmaları

Journal: darulfunun ilahiyat Vol.34 Issue 1, pp.257-281

Document Type: Article

Publication Date: 7/2023

Document Language: English

Document ID (Org No.): 2001293195

pISSN: 2651-5083

Issues

Authors:

Yulia Latifi | Mohammad Muslih

Publisher:

Istanbul University

Main Topics:

Din Araştırmaları

Journal:

darulfunun ilahiyat Vol.34 Issue 1, pp.257-281

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

7/2023

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2001293195

pISSN:

2651-5083