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RESEARCH ARTICLE
The Metaphysics of Knowledge: A Qur'anic Perspective [*]
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1 Ankara Üniversitesi, İlahiyat Fakültesi, Felsefe ve Din Bilimleri Bölümü 06500, Ankara , Turkey
Received: 27 May 2019 | Published online: 18 August 2019
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Abstract
Granted that human knowledge is, in fact, possible, I attempt to answer the philosophical question i.e., how the metaphysical conditions that make human knowledge possible by reference to the Qur’anic meta-epistemological intuitions. To achieve this, I first examine some philosophical attempts, Kant’s approach, in particular, offering an answer to the question “what makes knowledge possible?” from the transcendental point of view. Then, similarly, I propose that the Qur’anic meta-epistemological intuitions about the relation between human beings and the Divine can shed light on the problem of how human knowledge is, in fact, possible from a Qur'anic perspective.
Keywords
God
the Qur’an
human knowledge
Kant
meta-epistemology
transcendental arguments.
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