The Role of the Idea of Eschatology in the Methodology of Prescriptive Human Sciences

Recognizing the influence of religious teachings on the human sciences in the three fields of objective, method, and problems, the present article divides the human sciences into descriptive and prescriptive ones, and deals with the role of eschatology in the methodology of prescriptive human sciences. Criticizing the prevalent methodologies in the study of the human sciences, including positivism, falsificationism, historicism, Dilthey’s hermeneutics, and critical realism, and stating their incompatibility with believing in the hereafter, the article studies the methodology consistent with the idea of eschatology, and concludes that in studying prescriptive human sciences, it is necessary to benefit from revelational methodology as well as rational one.