FROM SOCIO-POLITICAL ABSOLUTISM TO SOCIO-POLITICAL RELATIONALISM: EXPLORING THE INTERPLAY OF LOGIC, METAPHYSICS, AND SEMIOTICS IN RECONSTRUCTING POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY
| dc.contributor.author | Mohammad Hisham Darwish | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-10-13T10:20:03Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-10-13T10:20:03Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2024-08-26 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Science, Religion, and Philosophy are domains of experience that have shaped all human culture and social phenomena, including socio-political life. By examining the history of socio-political evolution, we see the recurrence of irreconcilable dichotomies — static vs. dynamic, epistemic vs. procedural, inclusivity vs. exclusivity, uniformity vs. multiplicity, and so forth — producing an environment of dramatic irreconcilable social interaction in which mutual dialogue and shared evolution is rendered impossible. This tension has been the driving force for scenes of dramatic evolution in which the process of creating social life results in destroying other forms of social life, resulting in lost social knowledge and potential growth. At the heart of political science lies an irreconcilable dichotomy between its most crucial function represented in its pursuit of reconciling socio-political belief systems, avoiding the dramatic scenes of conflicts, and the prevailing conception of social evolution as a pre-destined, deterministic, and linear-cyclical process that inherently involves dramatic scenes of violence, a conception of socio-political evolution that I refer to as ‘Absolutism.’ Despite the divergence of Socio-political belief systems throughout history due to the varying ontologies and epistemologies that shape their foundation, they all shockingly share the same mode of evolution (Absolutism), which I will argue is rooted in their shared Ancient Greek metaphysical foundation of a worldview of irreconcilable binary oppositions characterized by static absolutes and hypothetical realms. Metaphysics has been completely overlooked in our analysis, disguised as a given, and buried so deeply within our frameworks of inquiry that it has become an unquestioned dogma; it has become so vague and misunderstood that it is commonly related to mythology, beyond reality, and irrelevant to the real world. This misconception has caused metaphysics to collapse into ontology and epistemology, making it completely invisible in our analysis; through the works of Basit Koshul and Charles Pierce, I will re-introduce it as the third constituent element of logic distinct from ontology and epistemology, in doing so, I will be able to propose an alternative socio-political framework and mode of evolution I refer to as Relationalism based on Charles Pierce triadic logic and metaphysics with the goal to reconstruct political sociology beyond determinism, and potentially opening the doors to reality in which we can influence the very nature of social evolution that has never been imagined before. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11888/19633 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Najah National University | |
| dc.supervisor | Hasan Ayoub | |
| dc.title | FROM SOCIO-POLITICAL ABSOLUTISM TO SOCIO-POLITICAL RELATIONALISM: EXPLORING THE INTERPLAY OF LOGIC, METAPHYSICS, AND SEMIOTICS IN RECONSTRUCTING POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY | |
| dc.title.alternative | من المطلقية الاجتماعية - السياسية إلى العلاقاتية الاجتماعية - السياسية: استكشاف تداخل المنطق والميتافيزيقا والسيموطيقيا في إعادة بناء علم الاجتماع السياسي |