I am working on a research of the area of ‘knowledge creation’. The research team’s leader asks me and my friend to identify the results of knowledge creation. One of the previously identified is innovation. So the challenge for both of us is to find out another relevant outcome of the knowledge creation.
So, this morning, I just thought of one thing. The answer should be ‘virtue’. Wasn’t me who had emailed a researcher in a university yesterday suggested that the highest hierarchy of knowledge is virtues, not wisdom? Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas, as I just read last night describes wisdom as a process of integrating introductory knowledge and illuminative knowledge. So, wisdom is tool to achieve virtues.
So, how this could be approved? Social science is thirsty for evidence. I’m still thinking on it. Perhaps, I need to finish reading the ‘Risalah untuk Kaum Muslimin’ first.
So, this morning, I just thought of one thing. The answer should be ‘virtue’. Wasn’t me who had emailed a researcher in a university yesterday suggested that the highest hierarchy of knowledge is virtues, not wisdom? Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas, as I just read last night describes wisdom as a process of integrating introductory knowledge and illuminative knowledge. So, wisdom is tool to achieve virtues.
So, how this could be approved? Social science is thirsty for evidence. I’m still thinking on it. Perhaps, I need to finish reading the ‘Risalah untuk Kaum Muslimin’ first.
3 comments:
the highest hierarchy of knowledge is the "knowledge of God" per se.
it is by no means incidental, that Prophet Muhammad ascension to the highest of heavens can only have "a bow's length" of the "Reality" , so to speak of God; and that is the highest level of knowledge as it sort of "annihiliates" all other creation.
thank you for an informative response :)
dear bro/ sist anonymous,
What did i focus on the hierarchy of knowledge is the results of the accumulation of every stage of its entity. For example the accumulation of data results information, and the accumulation of information results knowledge. Now, the western propose that the accumulation of knowledge results wisdom, in fact wisdom is a process involved in integrating knowledge (Naquib, 2004). As far as I concern, as being acknowledge by Ibn Khaldun, one of the aims of education is to produce valuable human being. Thus, i propose that the results of the accumulation of knowledge is virtue.
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