A Reading of The Spirit of Values and Freedom of Concepts: Towards Re-connection and Integration between the System of Values and Social Sciences

Abstract

This paper is a review of the book The Spirit of Values ​​and Freedom of Concepts. It aims to present the most important features of the ideas and methodological purposes for which the book was written, which is to re-empower value in the field of social sciences and to criticize the Cartesian cognitive model that continues to nourish the foundations of these sciences. The ideas of the book are a systematic effort to establish other principles to guide the mind, from mathematical principles to value principles. Therefore, the objectives of this review are to enhance a systematic awareness of value and its role in liberating the social sciences from Cartesian cognitive models, as well as to promote the awareness that renewing value to become the new epistemological foundations is another path towards renewing concepts in contemporary Arab and Islamic consciousness because awareness of the centrality of values ​​and their ontological and logical precedence is equivalent to embarking on the renewal of concepts and developing cognitive categories that are characterized by creativity and influence in the context. The review concluded that the value-based foundation of the social sciences is the correct path towards theoretical and practical freedom.