God Arises

The Challenge of The Qur’an ~ 329 ~ Such causes cannot be found, with the result that the theory of evolution is left without an explanation, — in an intellectual vacuum, one might say, while the same cannot be said of the explanation of life offered by the Quran. POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY The same has been the case with political philosophy. According to the 1984 edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica: ‘Political philosophy and political conflict have evolved basically around who should have power over whom’ (14/697). For five thousand years, eminent human brains have addressed their efforts towards finding an answer to this question. Yet they still have not been able to produce what Spinoza termed a ‘scientific base’ on which to form a coherent political philosophy. Altogether, there are more than twelve schools of political thought, which fall into two broad categories: despotism and democracy. The first is strongly objected to on the grounds that no good reason can be found for one single individual to