Friday, August 20, 2010
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
HAYY IBN YAQDHAN - IBN TUFAYL -حي بن يقظان - مجلة الباحثة
http://albahethah.com
في عصر كانت تحرق الكتب فيه وتنزل بالعلماء النوازل، دون أن تعرف العامة حقيقة مايجري في عالم فكري يتصف بالغرابة اراد ابن طفيل ان ينقل فكر هذا العالم إلى العامة، في لغة سهلة قريبة منهم عن طريق قصة حي بن يقظان
أهم أهداف ابن طفيل في هذه القصة التوفيق بين الشريعة والفلسفة - بين النقل والعقل
كتب كلاً من ابن سينا والسهرودي قصة باسم حي بن يقطان قبل ابن طفيل
HAYY IBN YAQDHAN-IBN TUFAYL
Done By: safa'a Al-Qabandi
مجلة الباحثة أول مجلة بحثية نسائية مصورة على شبكة الأنترنت
www.albahethah.com
Talal Asad on the History of the Idea of Humanity
Berkley Center Event: Reflections on the Origins of Human Rights, featuring Talal Asad (9/28/09)
Event Webpage: http://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/e...
The enormous academic interest in human rights is reflected in several excellent histories. Although there has been some disagreement over the origins of human rights, most scholars acknowledge their modern European provenance. In his talk, Talal Asad took it for granted that their origins do not make human rights inappropriate to non-European cultures. Through a discussion of two recent contributions -- John Headley's The Europeanization of the World; On the Origins of Human Rights and Democracy, and Lynn Hunt's Inventing Human Rights-- he explored two concepts generally regarded as central to human rights: "humanity" and "sympathy. This event was co-sponsored by the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs and the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding.
Event Webpage: http://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/e...
The enormous academic interest in human rights is reflected in several excellent histories. Although there has been some disagreement over the origins of human rights, most scholars acknowledge their modern European provenance. In his talk, Talal Asad took it for granted that their origins do not make human rights inappropriate to non-European cultures. Through a discussion of two recent contributions -- John Headley's The Europeanization of the World; On the Origins of Human Rights and Democracy, and Lynn Hunt's Inventing Human Rights-- he explored two concepts generally regarded as central to human rights: "humanity" and "sympathy. This event was co-sponsored by the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs and the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding.
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Scientific Verification of Vedic Knowledge
29:23 - 3 years ago
A vast number of statements and materials presented in the ancient Vedic literatures can be shown to agree with modern scientific findings and they also reveal a highly developed scientific content in these literatures. The great cultural wealth of this knowledge is highly relevant in the modern world. Techniques used to show this agreement include: - Marine Archaeology of underwater sites (such as Dvaraka) - Satellite imagery of the Indus-Sarasvata River system - Carbon and Thermoluminiscence Dating of archaeological artifacts - Scientific Verification of Scriptural statements - Linguistic analysis of scripts found on archaeological artifacts - A Study of cultural continuity in all these categories.
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Monday, August 2, 2010
The Intelligence of the Unconscious - University of California San Diego
- Partner:
- University of California San Diego
- Location:
- University of California San Diego La Jolla, CA
- Event Date:
- 02.08.08
- Speakers:
- Gerd Gigerenzer
- Summary
- Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious Acccording to the speaker, human beings tend to think of intelligence as a deliberate, conscious activity guided by the laws of logic. Yet, he argues, much of our mental life is unconscious, based on processes alien to logic: gut feelings, or intuitions. Dr. Gigerenzer argues that intuition is more than impulse and caprice; it has its own rationale. This can be described by fast and frugal heuristics, which exploit evolved abilities in the human brain. Heuristics ignore information and try to focus on the few important reasons. Says Gigerenzer: "More information, more time, even more thinking, are not always better, and less can be more." His talk is part of an ongoing series on "Behavioral, Social and Computational Sciences Seminars" organized by the UC San Diego division of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), which aims to bring the benefits of computational science to disciplines that have largely been by-passed by the information-technology revolution until now. More information on this and other talks in the series can be found at http://bscs3.calit2.net. Gigerenzer, a leading expert and author on heuristics, won the AAAS Prize for the best article in the behavioral sciences. He is the author of Calculated Risks: How To Know When Numbers Deceive You, the German translation of which won the Scientific Book of the Year Prize in 2002. His books on heuristics include Bounded Rationality: The Adaptive Toolbox, with Reinhard Selten, a Nobel laureate in economics - UCSD
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