ፍትህ ለሁሉም / Justice for All
This is about the book “The Bell Curve” by Charles A. Murray and Richard Hermstein published in 1994, which was controversial because it implied that blacks are inferior in intelligence to their white peers. The word implied suggests that we do not know it if the authors intended the implication or not. If it was …
Harari and Zizek talk about the human – nature relationship. A note from the Video “In a lively discussion between Slavoj Žižek and Yuval Noah Harari, the two thinkers debate extremist ideology, our role in nature, the notions of good and evil, and catastrophes of the past. The conversation is moderated by Günes Taylor, and …
The presenter in this video attempts to explain what dialectics means, but considers almost every contradiction as a dialectical relationship. This is the major problem with postmodernism. For any contradiction to be a dialectical phenomenon, the contradiction must be part of the natural evolutionary process of society, class contradiction, or struggle, for example. Contradictions among …
This is a continuation of the debate about the contribution to or impact of enlightenment on society. Watch the Video
The Enlightenment advocated reason, science, democracy, and universal human rights as a grounding for human morality and social organization. In the quarter millennium since, to what extent have these ideals been realized? Has the Enlightenment in fact been successful in bringing about moral progress? Are there viable alternatives to the Enlightenment vision? Watch the Video …
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In considering the relation of faith and reason it is important to appreciate that the issue generally is viewed from the perspective of the secular rationalism which has characterized much of the modern age. This is the cultural context within which we are born; it constitutes the glasses through which our world is interpreted. There …
We have been rightly reminded in the general introduction that science, in itscurrent sense does not equate to ancient forms of knowledge. But there wassuch a thing as ‘Byzantine science’ which covered all the forms of knowledgefrom an era that shared a similar appreciation for ‘certain’ knowledge accord-ing to the criteria of reason of that …
Source St. Augustine (354-430 C.E.), originally named Aurelius Augustinus, was the Catholic bishop of Hippo in northern Africa. He was a skilled Roman-trained rhetorician, a prolific writer (who produced more than 110 works over a 30-year period), and by wide acclamation, the first Christian philosopher. Writing from a unique background and vantage point as a …