Thesis Summary
Shahrur presents dialectic as a law based on opposites, and links it to another law: non-contradiction in abstract thought. Understanding thus becomes grounded, on the one hand, in the movement of opposites, and on the other, in the discipline of thought.
Foundational Atoms
Place of Support Within the Book
This meaning returns to the middle sections of the Book and the Qur’an, where it connects the laws of destiny with the structure of human understanding.
Limits of the Reading
This reading brings together two laws as the author presents them, and does not separate them philosophically beyond what the text states. It is a summary intended to clarify the general direction of his argument.