The Dialogue of Civilizations in the Birth of Modern Science

The Dialogue of Civilizations in the Birth of Modern Science

Author: A. Bala

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2006-11-13

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 0230601219

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Arun Bala challenges Eurocentric conceptions of history by showing how Chinese, Indian, Arabic, and ancient Egyptian ideas in philosophy, mathematics, cosmology and physics played an indispensable role in making possible the birth of modern science.


A Dialogue of Civilizations

A Dialogue of Civilizations

Author: B. Jill Carroll

Publisher: Tughra Books

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 1597841102

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Introduction -- Gülen and Kant on inherent human value and moral dignity -- Gülen and Mill on freedom -- Gülen, Confucius, and Plato on the human ideal -- Gülen, Confucius, and Plato on education -- Gülen and Sartre on responsibility -- Conclusion.


Civilizational Dialogue and World Order

Civilizational Dialogue and World Order

Author: M. Michael

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2009-05-25

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 0230621600

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The book comes at a very critical moment in the debate on civilization and responds to the lack of scholarly attention by international relations and political theorists as to how the discourse of dialogue of cultures, religions, and civilizations can contribute to the future of world order.


Knowledge Across Cultures

Knowledge Across Cultures

Author: Ruth Hayhoe

Publisher: Hong Kong University Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13:

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This book gives voice to outstanding scholars from three major Eastern civilizations-Chinese, Arabic, and Indian-who have entered into dialogue with equally distinguished scholars from the West. The themes of the book include challenges to knowledge in the late modern era; Eastern contributions to scientific knowledge; knowledge transfer across regions and civilizations; indigenous knowledge and modern education; and past and present influences from China.


East Asian Civilizations

East Asian Civilizations

Author: William Theodore DE BARY

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2009-06-30

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 0674031032

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De Bary constructs a magisterial overview of three thousand years of East Asian civilizations, principally in the form of dialogues among the major systems of thought that have dominated the Asian world's historical development.


Dialogue Of Civilizations

Dialogue Of Civilizations

Author: Jill Carroll

Publisher: Tughra Books

Published: 2008-04-01

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13: 1597846015

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Fethullah Glen is a Turkish intellectual, scholar, and activist whose influence over a new Islamic intellectual, social, and spiritual revival is revealed in this insightful book. Readers will gain a fuller understanding of where Glen stands on issues of inherent human value and dignity, freedom of thought, education and taking responsibility for creating society and the world. In addition, readers will also see how different perspectives across time, geography, and worldview can still find points on which to engage in dialogue and find a deep resonance.


Civilizational Identity

Civilizational Identity

Author: M. Hall

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2008-01-11

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 0230608922

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This volume focuses on the constitutive politics of civilizational identity, examining the practices through which notions of civilizational identity are produced and reproduced in different contexts, including the global credit regime, modernity debates, and the "war on terrorism".