Beyond Cross- Cultural Philosophy: Towards a New Enlightenment

The acculturalization of humanities from the late 1980ies onwards led not only to imagined different worlds (e.g. West / Islam), postmodernity overshadowed also common grounds of world`s philosophies. Christianity and Islam share far more than what might separate them, and we find Islam in „the West...

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Main Author: Detlev Quintern
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Language:English
Published: University of Tabriz, Faculty of Literature and Forigen Languages 2017-12-01
Series:Journal of Philosophical Investigations
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Online Access:http://philosophy.tabrizu.ac.ir/article_7088_47a504f567907e343eefab1580a2d88c.pdf
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description The acculturalization of humanities from the late 1980ies onwards led not only to imagined different worlds (e.g. West / Islam), postmodernity overshadowed also common grounds of world`s philosophies. Christianity and Islam share far more than what might separate them, and we find Islam in „the West “as Christianity „in the East“. The Logos of Life Philosophy as developed by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka (1923-2014) strives towards deciphering the deep layers of philosophy and its common grounds. Tracing back to Gnostic, Platonic (neo-platonic) and Islamic shaped philosophies - Ikhwan as-Safa will serve as an example - the Logos of Life / Aql Al-Kulli (universal reason) will be historicized in the following while introducing approaches towards a New Enlightenment (A.-T. Tymieniecka) as an alternative to the current crisis in meta-sciences
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spelling doaj.art-16321819fd86444191c0d04aee1154262023-09-02T11:08:02ZengUniversity of Tabriz, Faculty of Literature and Forigen LanguagesJournal of Philosophical Investigations2251-79602423-44192017-12-0111211912047088Beyond Cross- Cultural Philosophy: Towards a New EnlightenmentDetlev Quintern0Ph.D in History of Science in Islam, Fuat Sezgin Research Foundation for the Histo-ry of Science in Islam, TurkeyThe acculturalization of humanities from the late 1980ies onwards led not only to imagined different worlds (e.g. West / Islam), postmodernity overshadowed also common grounds of world`s philosophies. Christianity and Islam share far more than what might separate them, and we find Islam in „the West “as Christianity „in the East“. The Logos of Life Philosophy as developed by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka (1923-2014) strives towards deciphering the deep layers of philosophy and its common grounds. Tracing back to Gnostic, Platonic (neo-platonic) and Islamic shaped philosophies - Ikhwan as-Safa will serve as an example - the Logos of Life / Aql Al-Kulli (universal reason) will be historicized in the following while introducing approaches towards a New Enlightenment (A.-T. Tymieniecka) as an alternative to the current crisis in meta-scienceshttp://philosophy.tabrizu.ac.ir/article_7088_47a504f567907e343eefab1580a2d88c.pdfCross-Cultural PhilosophyLogos of LifeGnosisIkhwan as-SafaCrisis of SciencesNew Enlighenment
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Beyond Cross- Cultural Philosophy: Towards a New Enlightenment
Journal of Philosophical Investigations
Cross-Cultural Philosophy
Logos of Life
Gnosis
Ikhwan as-Safa
Crisis of Sciences
New Enlighenment
title Beyond Cross- Cultural Philosophy: Towards a New Enlightenment
title_full Beyond Cross- Cultural Philosophy: Towards a New Enlightenment
title_fullStr Beyond Cross- Cultural Philosophy: Towards a New Enlightenment
title_full_unstemmed Beyond Cross- Cultural Philosophy: Towards a New Enlightenment
title_short Beyond Cross- Cultural Philosophy: Towards a New Enlightenment
title_sort beyond cross cultural philosophy towards a new enlightenment
topic Cross-Cultural Philosophy
Logos of Life
Gnosis
Ikhwan as-Safa
Crisis of Sciences
New Enlighenment
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