This book presents, documents, and explains the problematics of research across all sciences. It conducts a comprehensive, integrated, and critical-hermeneutic review of the major foundational guiding research models: the empirical-analytical model, the interpretive model, and the critical research model. It clarifies their origins and the nature of modern conflicts that exist between and around them, particularly within the framework of postmodernism, and explores how to reconcile these models, considering their limitations and their epistemological and ontological backgrounds.

It proposes a new, fully integrated perspective on the unity of science, one that ensures science encompasses human intellectual, emotional, and value-based life. This grants science a complete universality, saving it from instrumental limitations and misuse, especially concerning its technological applications. This study focuses on qualitative research, clarifying the current distinctions between research in the natural sciences and research in the psychological, social, and educational human sciences. It highlights the importance of ethical and value-based considerations in research as a foundation, axis, and reference in a deliberative democratic life.

Our time is characterized by a lack of certainty and the emergence of new questions and values. There is an undeniable need for new and continuous concepts and efforts for the good of all humanity. This is a rich intellectual and practical wellspring that will never run dry.

• Publishing House: Al Matbouat for Distribution & Publishing
• Author: Prof. Dr. Ahmed Al-Sidawi
• ISBN: 9789953885087
• Number of Pages: 270
• Year of Publication: 2001
• Cover Type: Paperback