Knowledge: East and West
Channel: Asad Zaman
Date: 2023-03-17

{writeup: bit.ly/AZnaie44} Section 4.4 of A New Approach to Islamic Economics (bit.ly/na2ie) discusses the dramatic differences between Eastern and Western concepts of knowledge. These lead to corresponding differences in pedagogy. In particular, for human behavior, we base our understanding on our own internal experiences, instead of the axiomatic mathematical theories of Western economics, which lead to a model of psychopathic behavior.