Istifhām: dīn ke bāre men̲ pūche gaʼe savālāt ke javāb.T̤ālib Muḥsin -2009 - Lāhaur: al-Mavrid.detailsAuthor's reply about various questions regarding Islamic teachings for an ordinary Muslim.
Manufacturing Religion: The Discourse on Sui Generis Religion and the Politics of Nostalgia.Russell T. McCutcheon -1997 - New York: Oxford University Press USA.detailsIn this new book, author Russell McCutcheon offers a powerful critique of traditional scholarship on religion, focusing on multiple interrelated targets. Most prominent among these are the History of Religions as a discipline; Mircea Eliade, one of the founders of the modern discipline; recent scholarship on Eliade's life and politics; contemporary textbooks on world religions; and the oft-repeated bromide that "religion" is a sui generis phenomenon. McCutcheon skillfully analyzes the ideological basis for and service of the sui generis argument, demonstrating (...) that it has been used to constitute the field's object of study in a form that is ahistoric, apolitical, fetishized, and sacrosanct. As such, he charges, it has helped to create departments, jobs, and publication outlets for those who are comfortable with such a suspect construction, while establishing a disciplinary ethos of astounding theoretical naivete and a body of scholarship to match. Surveying the textbooks available for introductory courses in comparative religion, the author finds that they uniformly adopt the sui generis line and all that comes with it. As a result, he argues, they are not just uncritical, but actively inhibit the emergence of critical perspectives and capacities. And on the geo-political scale, he contends, the study of religion as an ahistorical category participates in a larger system of political domination and economic and cultural imperialism. (shrink)
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Locating Consciousness: Why Experience Can't Be Objectified.T. W. Clark -2019 -Journal of Consciousness Studies 26 (11-12):60-85.detailsThe world appears to conscious creatures in terms of experienced sensory qualities, but science doesn't find sensory experience in that world, only physical objects and properties. I argue that the failure to locate consciousness in the world is a function of our necessarily representational relation to reality as knowers: we won't discover the terms in which reality is represented by us in the world as it appears in those terms. Qualia -- arguably a type of representational content -- will therefore (...) not be found in the physical world as characterized in experience or science. Instead, consciousness constitutes a subjective, representational reality for cognitive systems such as ourselves, and the physical world is a represented objective reality. I suggest that naturalistic approaches to explaining consciousness should acknowledge the non-objectivity of experience, and be constrained by evidence that consciousness accompanies certain sorts of behaviour-controlling representational functions carried out by complex, physically instantiated mind-systems. I evaluate a variety of current hypotheses about consciousness, and suggest that a mature science of representation may help explain why, perhaps as matter of representational necessity, experience arises as a natural but not objectively discoverable phenomenon. (shrink)
Aquinas, education, and the East.T. Brian Mooney &Mark R. Nowacki (eds.) -2013 - Dordrecht: Springer.detailsA confluence of scholarly interest has resulted in a revival of Thomistic scholarship across the world. Several areas in the investigation of St. Thomas Aquinas, however, remain under-explored. This volume contributes to two of these neglected areas. First, the volume evaluates the contemporary relevance of St. Thomas's views for the philosophy and practice of education. The second area explored involves the intersections of the Angelic Doctor’s thought and the numerous cultures and intellectual traditions of the East. Contributors to this section (...) examine the reception, creative appropriation, and various points of convergence between St. Thomas and the East. (shrink)
Olon niĭtiĭn diskurs dėkh filosofiĭn u̇u̇rėg: (Ėrdėm shinzhilgėėniĭ baga khurlyn iltgėliĭn ėmkhėtgėl).B. T︠S︡ėrmaa &O. Bolor-Ėrdėnė (eds.) -2021 - Ulaanbaatar: Filosofiĭn khu̇rėėlėn.detailsResearch papers presented at the same title scientific conference, dedicated to the World Philosophy Day.
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Naqd falsafat al-ḥadāthah ʻinda Mishīl Fūkū.Aḥmad Aḥmad Ṭuraybiq -2014 - al-Dār al-Bayḍāʼ: Afrīqiyā al-Sharq.detailsFoucault, Michel, 1926-1984; philosophy; modernism.
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