Philosophy and history come together in a different way than we have used these two disciplines in the past. That requires a need of a philosophical reorientation with a new way of doing philosophy in the traditional sense of the term, but that is not merely critical theory, not just critique, not just theoretical understanding would. Recent incidents around the world such as Arab Spring or demonstrations in Hong Kong highlighted the requirement of a new way of philosophy based on secular thinking. The new way of philosophy insists on a secular understanding of our common problems in order to allow for the broadest possible inclusion of beliefs.
Decolonization of the Middle East has been one of the most debated issues of the recent historical studies both in the west and east. Prof. Ussama Makdisi of Rice University argues, pointing out to th...
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Contrary to the standard narrative of decolonization that represent colonialism as a bilateral relationship of alien rule between a metropole and a colony, colonization involves unequal integration an...
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Professor Joseph Massad is a Professor at the Columbia University. He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of New Mexico and his Ph. D. at Columbia University in 1998. He teaches and ...
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COVID-19 provided an opportunity for the authorities of politicisation of fear that has been pervading and shaping public life globally, especially in the West, to the extent that a new form of life d...
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Philosophy and history come together in a different way than we have used these two disciplines in the past. That requires a need of a philosophical reorientation with a new way of doing philosophy in...
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The debate about the relation between free will and determinism, which revolves around the idea of human freedom and possible obstacles to that freedom, has been on the agenda of the philosophers for ...
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NASA’s latest technological marvel, the James Webb Space Telescope, is sending us detailed and absolutely breathtaking images from the deep history of the universe. ese will allow us to answer more ...
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There has been a common belief that COVID-19 pandemics and the war between Russia and Ukraine had crucial impact on the world economy and recent national and international reports supported this idea....
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Ecophobia has provided fertile ground for the birth and growth of COVID-19. The relationships between ecophobia and the disease are complex and require nuanced analyses and description. While COVID-19...
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Despite massive national and international efforts on different platforms, we are still far away from our targets in the fight with the climate change. Degrowth, reducing of energy and resource use in...
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Prof. Wendy Brown discusses troubling legacies of western freedom and argues thatthese legacies were not part of the neoliberal vision; however, they unintentionally sprung by neoliberal reason. She a...
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The contemporary civilization is aiming to give us “pleasure and comfort” and eliminate “pain and suffering” as much as possible. This is evident especially in advanced countries. The contemporary civ...
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Prof. John Keane discusses the term “certainty” in times of growing uncertainties such as floods and fires, global pestilence, species destruction, unending wars, shrinking US power, talk of the spiri...
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The Women, Peace and Security agenda in Africa stems from the UNSC S/ RES/1325 and nine others landmark UNSC resolutions on women, peace and security which provide a framework for women’s participati...
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Dr. Douglas Vakoch describes international efforts to contact aliens and explains the difference between METI (Messaging to Extraterrestrial Intelligence), or intentionally transmitting signals to nea...
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Prof. Moosa analyzes the life and Works of Ghazali and points out the fact that historically Ghazali has been one of the most influential philosophers, as a world figure on par with Thomas Aquinas of ...
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