Ma`rifat Falsafi

Contemporary humanities face a profound epistemological crisis, rooted in the dominance of a paradigm predicated on unproven metaphysical presuppositions, such as ‘methodological naturalism’ and ‘self-sustaining anthropology’. Through restricting existence to the material realm and systematically excluding non-material explanations, this paradigm has lost the capacity to fully engage with the complex existential dimensions of human beings. Adopting an analytical-foundational approach, this paper seeks to demonstrate that overcoming this crisis is not achievable through intra-discursive adjustments, but rather through a ‘philosophical reconstruction of methodology’ and the establishment of a rival ‘monotheistic paradigm’. Through critically analyzing the axioms of the dominant paradigm, this article formulates the metaphysical architecture of an alternative paradigm based on establishing principles such as ‘layered realism,’ the ‘principle of divine manifestation,’ and ‘innate nature-based anthropology’. It then demonstrates how this paradigm, by redefining ‘falsifiability’ and focusing on the testability of the ‘implications’ of theories emerging from their ‘hard core,’ can set up the production of objective knowledge and valid explanations of human phenomena. Consequently, the monotheistic paradigm offers a coherent and epistemically generative framework that, by overcoming the ontological and anthropological limitations of secular science, opens new horizons for research in the humanities.