علم الزمن والوقت
Considering “time” as an independent science can be justified from two perspectives, i.e., it can be viewed from two viewpoints:
First – in terms of approach in all its dimensions and components: cosmic vision, knowledge sources, inference approaches, philosophy of science, cognitive and existential dimensions, foundations and starting points, purposes and endings, goals and means, procedures and processes, connection and disconnection, specialty and transcending disciplinary, generalizing and distinctiveness, prejudice and exclusion, concepts and terms etc. “time” is undoubtedly subject to the Western positivist school at all levels and in all fields. Under the positivist school, physics has the lion’s share for the legitimacy rule over time, as Reichenbach said in his book of “the Direction of Time”: there is no other way to solve the problem of time than through physics”.
Philosophy stands on the opposite side of physics as time is tackled from beyond scientific introductions (according to the positivist definition of science); sciences end up always with standards, measures, mathematical equations and new sciences … philosophies end up always in theories, schools, contradictory and even conflicting opinions most of the time.
Second: to turn “time sciences”, “time theories”, “time output” as a whole, and its whole introduction to “a subject of time science”; which deserves to be called “time sciences” or “about time sciences” (according to the approach of Dr. Moussaoui in the Aboutness); which is to try to enumerate these sciences and theories, sort them, classify them, analyze them, compare them, and weigh them … in an effort to build an integrated science that deals with these sciences, establish a clear-cut map that shows the foundations of what the thought has produced in terms of time throughout the history, whether from these sciences directly like “times science”, “maritime calendar science” “leisure time” or what was indirectly from it, like: “grammar” “agronomy” “medicine” from time introduction …
The purpose of the two perspectives and viewpoints is to solve the dilemma of “unawareness”, “submission” and “surrounding to the status quo” in sciences in general, whereas “time science” can be an example and an application case. However, the transformation shall not be carried out in controversial form, from contrast to opposite; i.e., the transformation shall not be in exclusionary or pretentious, because the error cannot be justified by another error and deviation cannot be treated with similar deviation.
The Almighty’s saying guides us to this “and let not the enmity and hatred of others make you avoid justice. Be just, that is closer to righteousness”. This Holy verse of the Qur’an is a solid moral guidance as much as it is a firm methodological foundation lost by the East due to its weakness, denied by the West due to its arrogance, and between these and those exist a few number of people working faithfully in the frontiers of science, we ask Allah to make us among them and guide us to the righteous path.
Written by: Dr. Mohamed Babaami
Translated by: Toufik Achour
Date: 25/12/2022
The Article title in Arabic: (اضغط للوصول إلى المقال) علم الزمن والوقت اعتباران وزاويتان
