Tag: consciousness
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Swami Vivekananda’s Philosophy of Religion and Consciousness with Swami Medhananda
In this conversation Swami Medhananda joins the host Saad Ismail to discuss his brilliant recent book ‘Swami Vivekananda’s Vedantic Cosmopolitanism’. We discuss Swami Vivekananda’s philosophy of ‘Integral Advaita’ and what makes it different from other forms of Advaita, how are we to approach Swami Vivekananda’s views on religious pluralism in the context of the evolution…
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Recommended Reading on Philosophy of the Self in Islam and Neuroscience
Recommended by Muhammad U. Faruque, Inayat Malik Assistant Professor at the University of Cincinnati and a Taft Center Fellow at the University of Cincinnati. He also holds a Visiting Scholar position at Harvard University. Prof. Faruque offers his book recommendations below on the philosophy of the self in Islam and modern neuroscience, a nascent subject…
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Sculpting the Self: Islam, Selfhood, and Human Flourishing
Sculpting the Self addresses “what it means to be human” in a secular, post-Enlightenment world by exploring notions of self and subjectivity in Islamic and non-Islamic philosophical and mystical thought. Alongside detailed analyses of three major Islamic thinkers (Mullā Ṣadrā, Shāh Walī Allāh, and Muhammad Iqbal), this study also situates their writings on selfhood within…
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The Mystery of Consiousness
Philosopher & Physician Raymond Tallis in conversation with Saad Ismail on the intellectual diseases of ‘Neuromania’ and ‘Darwinitis’, on the insufficiency of naturalism in explaining consiousness, on humanism & anti-humanists, on God & transcendence, on the soul & afterlife, and on straddling multiple intellectual identities.
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