Which of the Two? Knowledge or Time

Abstract

Knowledge versus Time, Truth versus Falsehood, Unity versus Dualism, these and the like are the subjects for philosophical discourse in the light of the two contrasting worldviews of unity of knowledge versus rationalism. The emerging formalism also leads to practical considerations in the circular causation model of unity of knowledge. The Qur'an is invoked in this formalism to build the arguments and the analysis underlying the analysis. Conception of time in the recursive causality, time seen as the recorder of particular states of the knowledge flows and of the knowledge-induced forms focusing on knowledge and time, the Qur'an brings out the contrast between these two entities in constructing a frame work of reality. Human conception of time as a temporal flow is replaced by the conception of transcendental time as equivalent to the divine knowledge. Time is therefore an endogenous event that is simultaneously determined by knowledge flows within the content recursion between values. Two sides of expression are therefore consistent with each other. The paper discussed two types of distinct aggregation in two kinds of realities, namely, unity of knowledge and methodological independence. In the light of the recursive circular causation model of endogenously complementary interrelationships that emanate from the epistemological model of unity; here considered a developed social wellbeing functioning according to the variables like, Human Development Index(HDI), Human Poverty Index (HPI), Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and Gender Development Index(GDI). The contrast between two worldviews is thus shown by the pervasively unifying nature of the principle of complementariness across diversity of complementing entities versus the competing and rationalistic nature of methodological individualism and independence.