الحداثة و سؤال الأخلاق في المدونة الفكرية لطه عبد الرحمن

Abstract EN

In his issue “The Question of Ethics” , ( A Contribution to the Ethical Criticism of Modernity) published in 2000 followed by another issue intitled “The Spirit of Modernity” (An Introduction to the Foundation of the Islamic Modernity) published in 2006, the professor Taha Abdurrahmen treated the problematic of modernity in a very experimental way reflecting a distinct intellectual experience.

He approached the concept of modernity differently from what is dealt with in Occidental Philosophy.

The human value is realized through the ethical value which is prior to the rest of values.

In other words, no act is to be undertaken unless it is judged through the scale of ethical values.

From this point, Taha Abdurrahmen believes that by the loss of ethics, life will witness a disequilibrium; by “The Ethical Criticism of Modernity”, we refer to occidental modernity because it has violated many ethical values that qualify human existence.

In this sense, the Islamic nation could reach real modernity as much as it goes straight forward to illustrate such ethical values in man’s relations with God, other humans and the rest of creatures.

This paper tackles the following i : What is the real relationship between modernity and ethics in professor Taha Abdurrahmen's analysis ? How did he reinitialize the concept of modernity in differenciating its spirit from its reality? Is there any authentic creativity in this reinitilization or there is a simple renovation to what has already been realized?