Download or read book Re ethnicizing the Minds written by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2006 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The predominance and global expansion of homogenizing modes of production, consumption and information risks alienating non-Western and Western people alike from the intellectual and moral resources embedded in their own distinctive cultural traditions. In reaction to the erosion of traditional cultures and civilizations, we seem to be witnessing the re-emergence of a tendency to "re-ethnicize the mind" through renewed and more or less systematic cultural revivals worldwide (e.g., "hinduization," "ivoirization," "sinofication," "islamicization," "indigenization," etc.). How do and should philosophers understand and assess the significance and impact of this phenomenon? Authors acquainted with the contemporary situation in Africa, Asia, the Middle-East, South-America, and Europe try to answer this question. In the final analysis, the authors of this original and groundbreaking collection of essays plead for a full critical engagement with one's own particularity while at the same time rejecting any form of cultural, national or regional chauvinism. They consider various ways in which local and global conceptions as well as practices can and already do judiciously inform and positively fertilize each other. At this juncture of history, they argue, societies and peoples must articulate their self-identity by looking critically at their respective cultural resources, and beyond them at the same time.
Download or read book Race in Mind written by Paul Spickard and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays analyze how race affects people's lives and relationships in all settings, from the United States to Great Britain and from Hawaiʻi to Chinese Central Asia. They contemplate the racial positions in various societies of people called Black and people called White, of Asians and Pacific Islanders, and especially of those people whose racial ancestries and identifications are multiple. Here for the first time are Spickard's trenchant analyses of the creation of race in the South Pacific, of DNA testing for racial ancestry, and of the meaning of multiplicity in the age of Barack Obama.
Download or read book Responsibility to Protect written by Rama Mani and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores in a novel and challenging way the emerging norm of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P), initially adopted by the United Nations World Summit in 2005 following significant debate throughout the preceding decade. This work seeks to uncover whether this norm and its founding values have resonance and grounding within diverse cultures and within the experiences of societies that have directly been torn apart by mass atrocity crimes. The contributors to this collection analyze the responsibility to protect through multiple disciplines—philosophy, religion and spirituality, anthropology, and aesthetics in addition to international relations and law—to explore what light alternative perspectives outside of political science and international relations shed upon this emerging norm. In each case, the disciplinary analysis emanates from the global South and from scholars located within countries that experienced violent political upheaval. Hence, they draw upon not only theory but also the first-hand experience with conscience-shocking crimes. Their retrospective and prospective analyses could and should help shape the future implementation of R2P in accordance with insights from vastly different contexts. Offering a cutting edge contribution to thinking in the area, this is essential reading for all those with an interest in humanitarian intervention, peace and conflict studies, critical security studies and peacebuilding.
Download or read book The End of Russian Philosophy written by A. Deblasio and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-27 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The End of Russian Philosophy describes and evaluates the troubled state of Russian philosophical thought in the post-Soviet decades. The book suggests that in order to revive philosophy as a universal, professional discipline in Russia, it may be necessary for Russian philosophy to first do away with the messianic traditions of the 19th century.
Download or read book Philosophy After the End of Philosophy written by Nader N. Chokr and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-16 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays included in this collection deal with a wide and diverse range of problems and issues: namely, Cultural Complexity; Globalization; Glocalization; Relativism; Bullshit; Embodied and Situated Cognition; Capabilities Approach; Moral Universalism; Solidarity; Cosmopolitanism; Pluralism; Human Rights; Justice; and “Philosophy” after the end of Philosophy. This work takes its main title from the last essay, in which the author makes an effort to rethink the nature and purpose of “philosophy” for our times, sketching a proposal for a new beginning for philosophy as “critical philosophy.” Such a philosophy would have a clear and compelling emancipatory thrust. At this point in human history, it would have to be underwritten by an ethical universalism that is pluralistic, historically enlightened and non-ethnocentric. In addition, it would take seriously the consequences of complexity in a world that is increasingly interconnected and interdependent, yet still so far apart, and would be prepared to draw the full implications of the embodied and situated cognition paradigm shift which has taken place in the past few decades. It would, furthermore, take aim at the bullshit, in all of its manifestations, that is so pervasive in various quarters throughout the whole of culture and society. Finally, it would effectively contribute to the articulation and elaboration of the kinds of concepts, frameworks, narratives and practices, generally speaking, which could somehow enable humans to rise to the next level in their understanding of the globalizing and glocalizing world in which they live, and which is, as is common knowledge, dramatically confronted by a number of serious challenges, grave risks and threats, dismal shortcomings and failures. This work offers compelling analyses and diagnostics, and makes some sketch-proposals to urgently grapple with them.
Download or read book Here is a Table written by Ndumiso Dladla and published by African Sun Media. This book was released on 2020-12-04 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our understanding of racism is that it is the systematic doubt concerning the humanity of the other. It is a means to an end, namely, to pursue the dehumanisation of the other for one’s sole and exclusive benefit. The doubt is in itself ethically indefensible. Yet, it ultimately acquires the status of an incontrovertible truth around which economic and political life is organised and conducted. This has been and continues to be the reality in South Africa today. The hypothesis of this book is that a philosophical-historical study of racism will reveal that it has only ever been and continues to be white supremacy. In South Africa the actuality of the doubt is that it has always arisen from one side (“whiteness”) and directed itself against the other (“blackness”). Our purpose is to show that racism properly speaking is white supremacy and that it cannot be properly understood without African philosophy.
Download or read book The Cosmopolitanization of Science written by J. Zhang and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-04-11 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focussing on China's stem cell research, this book investigates how, over the last decade, Chinese scientists, ethicists and policy-makers have developed a cosmopolitan sensibility in comprehending and responding to ethical and regulatory concerns.
Download or read book From Heart of Stone to Heart of Flesh Evolutionary Journey from Extremism to Moderation written by Zeina M. Barakat and published by Herbert Utz Verlag. This book was released on 2017-08-24 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the forces of human transformation from extremism to moderation. It analyzes the ethical indicators which determine making the choice of the path to take when one is faced with crucial decisions to make. The author focuses on three central values, namely, (a) moderation, reflecting balance in dealing with individual and group issues; (b) reconciliation, reflecting willingness to heal wounds and repair broken relationships by showing respect for the personal and collective narrative of the other, and feeling empathy and compassion for the pain and suffering of other and viewing the perspective of the other by putting oneself in the shoes of the other; (c) peace, coexisting with the other reflecting tolerance for the beliefs and views of other. These three concepts are linked together in consequential sequence with each leading to the other and eventually resulting prosperity and security.
Download or read book Ibuanyidanda written by Innocent I. Asouzu and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2007 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Philosopher s Index written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 1160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1969- include a section of abstracts.
Download or read book Community Psychology written by Anthony Naidoo and published by Juta and Company Ltd. This book was released on 2007 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book & CD. "Community Psychology" contains a rich diversity of insights and critical debates on the key theoretical, analytic, teaching, learning and action approaches in community psychology. The book offers an incisive examination of a range of contextual factors that influence the practice of community psychology in South Africa
Download or read book Race in Mind written by Alexander Alland and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-10-18 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Race in Mind, Alexander Alland challenges the idea that intelligence is related to race, offering critiques of the biological determinism of Carlton Coon, Arthur Jensen, Cyril Burt, Robert Ardrey, Konrad Lorenz, William Shockley, and others. Presenting evolutionary genetics in understandable and accessible language, Alland demonstrates that biologically, "race" cannot explain human variation. Written in a lively, conversational style, Alland imparts real, substantive scientific arguments and cuts through the ideological posturing and jargon that so often characterizes our discussions about race, showing us a more nuanced and scientifically valid way to understand the diversity that is the human conditio
Download or read book The Color of Skin written by Enrique A Cordero and published by Enrique A. Cordero. This book was released on 2020-10-09 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ignorance and fear of the unknown gave birth to racism, and it has been fueled by hatred for hundreds of years. Unfortunately, racism is so pervasive and insidious that it has become a systemic illness that slowly erodes the health of our society. It can rear its ugly head where you least expect it. The fact that we are confronting issues like the murder of George Floyd, among many others, is a testament to the fact that racism abides in all institutions. I wrote this book for all ethnic groups so that we can be armed with knowledge and can perhaps come together, once and for all, to create the legislative and social changes that will begin to weed out systemic racism. We live in the 21st century! Don’t you think it’s time to open our minds, our hearts, our very souls, and rewrite the useless scripts that have been passed down from generation to generation? We cannot change the world unless we are willing to change ourselves first. The most fundamental step to change and improve society in a meaningful and lasting way is through self-transformation. It’s not an easy task, but we must tap into the deepest recesses of our souls and analyze our ideas and beliefs regarding the world. Then we must educate ourselves by expanding our knowledge base. Here are a few of the topics covered in this book: We are Homo sapiens—why we look different The misuse of brain size and IQ studies to propagate racism Fear of the unknown Separatist ideology Racism is taught There is only one race—Homo sapiens How racist ideas are spread Ethnicity Systemic racism Semantics Monuments and their significance Slavery—past and present Racism and Religion What will the future hold? We all deserve the same opportunities that society offers. We must emulate the work of our predecessors by raising our voices, our minds, and our spirits to fight for freedom and equality for all people. In so doing, we will enrich our lives beyond measure.
Download or read book Ikwa Ogwe written by Innocent Asouzu and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mind Camp written by Sheik Ali El and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-17 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you have ever wondered why 'Blacks' are still suffering racism in the land of freedom and justice for all, Mind Camp is the book you have been waiting on. These collections of poems and essays by Sheik Ali El will show you step by step how and why God has allowed them to suffer as he allowed their great ancestors, the Children of Israel, to suffer in Egypt. His divine logic and reasoning is backed by documented proof and science. His uncanny wit and ability to connect religious beliefs to the governments the world is prophet-like, and reveals truths that have been hidden in plain sight by governments and religious leaders for hundreds of years with the sole purpose of keeping them and the masses in the darkness of servitude. The Sheik's command of the English dictionary, American Constitution and world history will make plain what once seemed mysterious; including your mind.
Download or read book Transcultural Architecture written by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical Regionalism is a notion which gained popularity in architectural debate as a synthesis of universal, 'modern' elements and individualistic elements derived from local cultures. This book shifts the focus from Critical Regionalism towards a broader concept of 'Transcultural Architecture' and defines Critical Regionalism as a subgroup of the latter. One of the benefits that this change of perspective brings about is that a large part of the political agenda of Critical Regionalism, which consists of resisting attitudes forged by typically Western experiences, is 'softened' and negotiated according to premises provided by local circumstances. A further benefit is that several responses dependent on factors that initial definitions of Critical Regionalism never took into account can now be considered. At the book’s centre is an analysis of Reima and Raili Pietilä’s Sief Palace Area project in Kuwait. Further cases of modern architecture in China, Korea, and Saudi Arabia show that the critique, which holds that Critical Regionalism is a typical 'western' exercise, is not sound in all circumstances. The book argues that there are different Critical Regionalisms and not all of them impose Western paradigms on non-Western cultures. Non-Western regionalists can also successfully participate in the Western enlightened discourse, even when they do not directly and consciously act against Western models. Furthermore, the book proposes that a certain 'architectural rationality' can be contained in architecture itself - not imposed by outside parameters like aesthetics, comfort, or even tradition, but flowing out of a social game of which architecture is a part. The key concept is that of the 'form of life', as developed by Ludwig Wittgenstein, whose thoughts are here linked to Critical Regionalism. Kenneth Frampton argues that Critical Regionalism offers something well beyond comfort and accommodation. What he has in mind are ethical prescripts closely linked to a
Download or read book The Unshackled Mind written by Almas Sami and published by . This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is designed to stimulate "real dialog" that sheds light on race in America in an affirming manner that will leave audiences of all colors feeling more enlightened and better prepared to meet sensitive racial issues head on! We should seek inward solutions to our concerns about racial discrimination, bigotry, personal growth, parenting and mentoring. e Author has been noted as "serious with a sense of humor, informative, sensational and motivational inspirational." The Unshackled Mind is based on the notion that African Americans must POSITIVELY reconnect to history. We must work to place our ancestors at the table of human achievement and accomplishment. However this must be done in a positive way that inspires, motivates and captivates rather than incite crippling anger and hostility. I want people of color to proudly look at their past and empower themselves to take control of their own lives. My approaches to dealing with racism are a mixture of Minister Malcolm X's unapologetic self-determinisms and Dr. Martin Luther King's all-encompassing humanistic spiritualism. is book represents a fresh new approach to understanding and healing the minds and hearts of young African Americans. (Find out who you are, then set out to stake your claim in the world. The world is yours to do with as you think. Educate yourself! Examine your thoughts!)
