Logical Positivism

Reading Material: Positivist Methodology of Economics and Islam by Dr. Asad Zaman

Abstract:

We will show that the current economic methodology is based on logical positivism. This

philosophy is anti-Islamic, and therefore cannot be used to construct Islamic Economics.

There are two main points of opposition. Logical Positivism rejects the unseen, while

Islam requires faith in the unseen. Logical Positivism reject morality as unscientific,

while morality is a central part of Islamic teachings. This means that a methodology for

Islamic economics will be radically different from that currently in use in conventional

economic theory.

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