Reversing Entropy to Sustainability : The Moral Dimension

Sustainability and entropy are concepts more than simply relating to environment and physical systems of energy dissipation, respectively. In the moral, social and co-integrated socio-scientific planes of human experience sustainability is essentially the positive action and response between the episteme of unity of knowledge and its social reconstruction of the unified world-system. Such a praxis of knowledge and experience lies at the core of the moral law of unity. It involves learning and process in the light of the complementary and participatory nature of unity of knowledge as the episteme of action, response and dynamics in relation to the ecological problem under study. In the Qur’an sustainability as precept is equated with the fundamental objective of creation and life. Since knowledge has ever-increasing potential, so does the possibility of entropy to return back to sustainability, even after a regime ecological decadence. This kind of reversal of entropy is tantamount to mankind’s possibility to return to the moral law by self-actualization and redemption. The moral, ethical and worldly issues embedded in such a treatment of ecology , sustainability and reversal of entropy are of deep import for epistemological formalism, institutionalism and empirical and policy applications at large. This paper expounds that worldview by developing a general-system understanding of ecology, sustainability, reversal of entropy and the population interrelationships embedded in the moral domain. The Qur’anic worldview is highlighted on this theme due to its singular centricity on the monotheistic episteme (unity of knowledge) and the unified world-system (i.e. ecology, sustainability and reversal from entropy)