Melupakan Great Chain of Being Intelektual Muslim Dalam Tegangan Antara Sekularisme dan Skizofrenia Kultural

Alfathri Adlin (Program Studi Ilmu Seni Rupa dan Desain, Fakultas Seni Rupa dan Desain, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia)
Yasraf Amir Piliang (Fakultas Seni Rupa dan Desain, ITB, Kelompok Keahlian Ilmu-Ilmu Desain dan Budaya Visual, FSRD ITB)
Bambang Sugiharto (Fakultas Filsafat Unpar, Kampus Fakultas Filsafat Unpar)
Irma Damajanti (Kelompok Keahlian Estetika dan Ilmu-ilmu Seni, Fakultas Seni Rupa dan Desain, Institut Teknologi Bandung)

Jurnal Peradaban (Filsafat, Etika, dan Agama)
Vol. 3 No. 2 (2023): Jurnal Peradaban

The integration of (post)modern Western thought by some Indonesian Muslim intellectuals needs to be critiqued regarding, first, the modern historical bias as progress, which leads to the appropriation of the latest thoughts into Islamic thinking as a sign of progress and openness. Second, the forgetting of the Great Chain of Being, resulting in the adaptation and revision of Islamic thought through the dynamics of Western (post)modern thought born from different historical contexts. Third, the tendency to graft secularism as a historical inevitability in the Islamic world, as well as the cultural schizophrenia among educated Muslims when integrating secular (post)modern knowledge into Islamic teachings and its hierarchical structure of reality.