The implications of utilitarianism and commodification on educational research: an evaluation study from an Islamic perspective عبد الرحمن بن محمد بن نفيز الحارثي*

Abstract

 This study aimed to: Clarify the implications of utilitarianism on educational research, clarify the Islamic perspective on utilitarianism in educational research, clarify the implications of commodification on educational research, and clarify the Islamic perspective on commodification in educational research. The results showed that utilitarians agree that utility is the end of morals. Truth or denial of lies is not the end; Rather, the end is what results from it, which is ultimately a tangible material benefit, and that the benefit in Islam may be materialistic, and it may be hereafter, and it may combine the two things with a balanced legal methodology that takes into account the public and the private interests, and that one of the repercussions of utilitarianism on educational research is weakening creativity in the Islamic mind, and its isolation from its social context while looking at the problems it deals with in educational research, and one of the repercussions of the idea of ​​commodification on educational research is that man turns into a “thing” so his view of science does not go beyond the material surface and the world of things, because it follows simple specific models, as if dealing with the same substance.

Keywords: utilitarian philosophy, educational commodification, educational research, Islamic education.