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Abstract
This study focuses on a central issue in the philosophy of religion, namely the relationship between knowledge, moral virtue, and the epistemic responsibility of the knowing agent, and provides a comparative analysis of the concept of ḥikmah in the Qur’an and the foundational epistemic concepts in ancient Greek philosophy-sophia, phronesis, and episteme. In the Greek tradition, a structural distinction between theoretical knowledge and practical wisdom is observed, which can lead to a dualism between knowledge and ethics. Employing Linda Zagzebski’s framework of responsibility-centered virtue epistemology and a comparative-analytical method, this paper demonstrates that Qur’anic ḥikmah presents an integrated model in which theoretical knowledge, practical judgment, and moral virtue are intrinsically interconnected. The findings indicate that by incorporating the element of “epistemic responsibility”-manifested in the Qur’anic linkage of wisdom with purification, piety, and social guidance-ḥikmah can be reconstructed as a philosophical model addressing the historical gap between knowledge and ethics in the philosophy of religion.
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