Taha Abderrahman and the existential awakening of the human being
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Taha Abdurrahman, a Moroccan philosopher, moderated a conference on "universal justice and depositarism" at the Academy of the Kingdom of Morocco in 2019. He emphasized the role of human beings as depositaries of a mission to promote good deeds in the world. He highlighted the importance of spiritual renewal, moral value, and the ethical dimension of human rights. His goal is to promote an original Muslim philosophy that modernizes thinking and addresses contemporary challenges.
Then, I had the certainty that man's perfectibility does not come from his material goods, nor from his knowledge; but from his moral qualities. It is, from this certainty that I was able to formulate three postulates on which I have founded a moral philosophy. According to the first postulate, it is ethics that defines man's identity; knowing that this identity is neither fixed nor uniform; on the contrary, it expands and decreases according to the moral qualities that man possesses. Identity is therefore proportional to ethics. The second postulate states that ethics cannot be reduced to a certain number of values or to a series of specific acts; far from it. It hence encompasses all aspects of human experience, apparent or hidden, easy or difficult. According to the third postulate, as legal statutes in Islam aim to honor man, they are fundamentally built on ethics. Consequently, reducing the application of any legal statute to its legal content without concern for the moral value that corresponds to it, certainly harms the purpose of that statute.
Taha Abderrahmane Taha, A., 2017. Dīn al ḥayāʾ : Rūh al ḥiǧāb. Bayrūt : Ebdaa. 163-164.
In 2019, the Moroccan philosopher Taha Abderrahmane moderated a conference on "universal justice and depositarism" at the Academy of the Kingdom of Morocco, in which he stated that man is by nature the depositary of a mission to promote good deeds in the world.
Speaking before an audience of intellectuals and academics, the eminent professor immediately highlighted the notions of thought known as " trustworthiness" and spiritual renewal, based on three principles which are spiritual nature, the principle of trust and spiritual development.
From this point of view, the Moroccan intellectual insisted on the importance of renewing the approach to religion and the moralization of modernity, highlighting the need to apply the principle of spiritual development, as a notion that challenges the individual to materialize values morals and the spirituality necessary to preserve the precedence of the human being in the universe and to face the new challenges and crises that threaten human values.
Addressing the issue of human rights, Taha Abderrahmane underlined the prominence of the ethical dimension of human rights over international conventions and resolutions.
Abderrahmane Taha is one of the eminent professors who consistently pays attention to the issues of his time, contributing extensively to providing philosophical perspectives in response to various contemporary problems. The philosopher's project is to promote the emergence of an original Muslim philosophy that aims to modernize thinking within the Ummah through the renewal of the human being. The author of the book "The Question of Proper Philosophy: The Best of Creativity in Contemporary Arab Thought" has conceived and developed a pure Islamic philosophy, with the purpose of revitalizing this thought linguistically and cognitively, advocating mastery of production mechanisms and the search for alternatives.
Professor Taha Abderrahman imposes himself as a point of reference in current debates on Islamic issues, favoring dialogue and the right to difference, as he is a thinker who has always spoken out in favor of cultural emancipation.
Dr Abdellah M. Cozzolino
