The national museum of saudi arabia, the centerpiece of the King Abdulaziz Historical Center in Riyadh, was built in 1999 as part of the centennial celebrations (calculated according to the Islamic, ...or Hijri, calendar) commemorating the capture of the city by Abdulaziz ibn Saud, the first king of Saudi Arabia, in 1902. The museum’s gently curved, dun-colored west wall faces the old Murabba Palace and was designed to evoke the canyon walls of the dry Najd highlands that dominate the central region of the Arabian Peninsula.
At the entrance to the first gallery, which is called “Man and the Universe,”
Our Flesh Was Made from Corn Leonor Hurtado Paz y Paz; Cristóbal Cojtí García
Religion and Sustainable Agriculture,
10/2016
Book Chapter
The Mayan civilization unites spirituality, science, and agriculture, thus creating an agriculture that is in harmony with nature, the individual, and society, weaving all the elements together as ...part of the cosmic fabric. Harmony is created by respecting principles that consider the human being as one integral element of the whole system rather than the main or dominant element of that system. In this context, the person respects the life of all other elements, understanding that all elements are alive and have their own mission. Another principle is “You are my other self”—this principle considers that one’s life influences
Early Positivism Evaldas Nekrašas
The Positive Mind,
02/2016
Book Chapter
Positivism is closely related to science. In many ways, positivism originated from scientific progress. Hence, tracing the roots of positivism, it seems quite natural to start by analyzing the ...circumstances in which science begins to oppose and sever itself from philosophy, the discipline of which it was a part for centuries. This separation occurred in modern times and has impacted later relationships between philosophy and the sciences. However, before embarking on a discussion of how these relationships were changed by the first scientific revolution of the seventeenth century, one should perhaps evaluate an old belief that, allegedly, for many centuries,
Selon nombre de philosophes des Lumières, la naissance de la science moderne a signifié l’émergence d’une nouvelle forme de rationalité tenue pour résumer désormais la rationalité scientifique et, ...simultanément, l’abandon, le reniement, via notamment la critique des croyances dans lesquelles elles s’incarnaient, de formes de rationalité jugées infantiles, populaires, « vulgaires », en tout cas radicalement non scientifiques. Face à la tentation du retour sur le devant de la scène savante de ces styles de rationalité que le siècle des Lumières avait cru définitivement abandonnés, on interrogera ce processus d’émergence en le mesurant à l’aune de la catégorie historiographique de « révolution scientifique » pour en proposer une interprétation beaucoup plus prudente que celle que l’optimisme rationaliste du siècle des Lumières en avait délivré.
According to a number of philosophers of the age of Enlightenment, the birth of modern science called for the emergence of a new form of rationality henceforth thought to summarize scientific rationality, and for the simultaneous forsaking and denial mainly via criticism of believes that supported them, of rationality forms held as infantile, popular, “vulgar”, and at any rate strictly non-scientific. Though abandoned during the age of Enlightenment, these modes of rationality are attempting a return to the erudite scene. This emergence process will be examined with respect to the historiographical category of “scientific revolution” and a much more cautious interpretation than that derived from the rationalistic optimism of the age of Enlightenment will be proposed.
I was talking to a Jordanian-born civil servant called Muhammad, an official in one of the ministries, about the bedding plants propagated every year in Bahrain to be planted along the highways. ...Muhammad had a gardening manual open in front of him and would answer my technical questions—about watering, lighting, growing season—by glancing at the manual. He reminded me of a student who had not done his homework or was unfamiliar with his assignment. Muhammad’s ministry is responsible for those highway beds, along with other issues of urban development. He told me that his department grows about 4.5
“Monster” is an anthropocentric concept: the being of monsters inheres precisely in theiraberration fromus or from our sense of the normal. Etymologically, amonstrum(Latin) was an omen defined by a ...departure from the ordinary and, as all aberrations contain the trace of their departure point, monsters confirm that point as the center from which the monstrous is elaborated. The imagining of monsters is thus necessarily constrained: if we were capable of imagining an alien being that was entirely free of us—a “totally other”—it would not be monstrous.
Like the ordinary and the monstrous , science
The historian’s job is to see things in the perspective of time, to describe human development, and to explain as best he can what change he observes. In a discussion such as this heoughtto be able ...to establish how men’s “aims and hopes” have changed, say, in the past thousand years, and precisely to what extent the changes have been the result of “advancing science” or of other factors. Some in his audience will probably expect him also to gaze steadily into the crystal ball and predict what is going to happen to human hopes and to science
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GOD AND SCIENCE Maritain, Jacques
On the Use of Philosophy,
12/2015
Book Chapter
In the realm of culture, science now holds sway over human civilization. But at the same time science has, in the realm of the mind, entered a period of deep and fecund trouble and self-examination. ...Scientists have to face the problems of over-specialization, and a general condition of permanent crisis which stems from an extraordinarily fast swarming of discoveries and theoretical renewals, and perhaps from the very approach peculiar to modern science. They have, in general, got rid of the idea that it is up to science to organize human life and society and to supersede ethics and religion by
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