Disampaikan sebagai orasi ilmiah dalam Nurcholish Madjid Memorial Lecture I, 7 Desember 2007, di di Auditorium Nurcholish Madjid, kampus Universitas Paramadina, Jakarta. Acara ini diselenggarakan oleh Yayasan Wakaf Paramadina.All human knowledge, insofar as a man is a member of a society in general, is not empirical, but ‘aprirori’ knowledge. The genesis of such knowledge shows that it preceds levels of self-consciousness and consciousness of one’s self value. There is no ‘I’ without a ‘we’ The ‘we’ is filled with contents prior to the ‘I’ (Max Scheler, Problems of a Sociology of Knowledge. 1980, p 67)
