Contemporary Wisdom

Disciplinary and Epistemology: Revisiting Clerkish Mentalite in Human Sciences

Document Type : Biannual Journal

Author

Seyed Javad Miri

Associate Professor of Sociology and Religious Studies at Institute of Humanities and Cultural Studies

https://doi.org/10.30465/cw.2019.4119
Abstract
                                                        
The disciplinary knowledge has been conceptualized as the valid from of classifying sound knowledge vis-à-vis other from of epistemic which have been classified as erroneous or unscientific from of fathoming different modalities of realities. By internalizing disciplinary forms of cognitions the social sciences have conceded to compartmentalization of knowledge and thus branded any attempt towards unity of knowledge as archaic forms of understanding complexities. In this article I have taken issue with the question of epistemology based on the reading of Allama Jafari with reference to classical epistemologists who did not share the principle of disciplinary epistemic configuration. This, in other words, is another way of demonstrating a full-fledged critique of disciplinary knowledge construction but this does not mean that the way forward is interdisciplinarity which loses sight of reality as a holistic entity. it seems Allama Jafari while rejecting the idea of disciplinary knowledge due to compartmentalizing effect of such an epistemological strategy but he does not favor interdisciplinary strategies either as in his view these seemingly different strategies would lead us to a complete from of clerkish mentalite in humanities.

Keywords

Epistemology
Allameh Jafari
Disciplinary Science
Humanities
Knowledge
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Contemporary Wisdom
Volume 10, Issue 1
June 2019
Pages 1-15

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