This study links the theoretical with the practical in its approach to the teaching and learning of philosophy in Lebanon as an exemplar for the Arab world. Philosophy in the Arab world is in crisis, and even its revival would be difficult and require enormous boldness to revolt against the certainties of the religious view and the givens of political allegiance. It would also require an understanding of the relationship linking philosophy with the positivist and human sciences, which is a clever epistemological link that gives philosophy the ability to contribute effectively in the formation of the broadest meaning of the human.