Hasan A. Yahya, a professor of Philosophy
Debate for Orientalism as a philosophical or non-philosophical approach to study reality is misleading among scholars. According to Crescentology, philosophy cannot be discussed without taking into consideration the two reflected realities or viewpoints or opposite ways of thinking. Because philosophical thinking to be perfect in providing ideas (silly or rigor as perceived by some), needs to be applied for both viewpoints. Otherwise, it will be a perception with an array of possibilities for errors. A philosopher would be in this case an independent of his feelings, wishes, hopes and fears. In other words, a philosopher follows objectivity in its strict sense.
Talking about religions from the angel of rational thinking, using mental powers, will not satisfy theologians or ideologists talking about the same topic. The difference between the two, is the open or limited spirituality. Glorious spirituality as totality of existence is a characteristic of God the Just for all human and non-human beings, not God for only Muslims or Christians or Jews, or Buddhism, or else, A total objectivity of human thinking. A limited spirituality is ground-like soccer game competition where spirituality is limited to certain groups represent one of the two teams on the play ground, the winner will have certain skills on both individual and group cooperation while undermining the skills and qualities of the other team.
In a sucker game, philosopher will never loose, theologians will. Because in soccer game, not the skill of feet is needed, but the mental power and physical skills work side by side to use the feet in cooperation with other feet. In short, theologians in the soccer game, imagine spiritually granted victory without planning, or thinking about the other team skills and qualities, where God will interfere, somehow. Unlike theologians, philosophers take into consideration the other team, or the other point of view on equal measure to apply for both teams to perform reality as factual outcome.
Reality is is an outcome of facts. It is a result of an action or reaction of a person, or persons. The response is covered with emotions, without thinking, It occurs among both sane and insane persons, groups, organizations, and states. Planned reality needs philosophers not theologians or politicians. On the same token, reaction share reality (as action) in the power of creating it. But response or reaction usually comes later than an action in terms of cause-effect. Where planning makes reaction realities as right or wrong relative to metaphysical, epistemological and ethical ideology of the decision maker. Politicians and theologians share these characteristics, but sharply different from philosophical approach.
Reality might satisfy some persons, but never satisfy all persons, dealing with reality is a perception, I will bring some real incidents of reality, where people differ in their perception also, according to certain influences. The psychological, the social, and the cultural, factors constitute the color of reaction to reality as an action. Realities fight each other, like ignorance and knowledge, like mental and physical, like modern and old times, like close and open minds and spaces. Saddam invasion to Kuwait was means, a reality, for sure, to an end. Such end is different among the invaders and invaded. The action created reaction. No matter how reasonable the action is, the reaction would be more planned than the action itself. The reaction is not less reasonable view, and Saddam was defeated. Take the Nazi and Jews in Europe, or Israelis and Palestinians case, or Muslims and non-Muslims, Arabs and non-Arabs, East and West in history, all were characterized by TRADISM in economic sense, unfortunately, reality in any place and time is real, the unreal is the reaction to it. In this point reaction comes in two shapes, one planned which is more successful because it needs mental abilities of persons and groups and may be nations through leadership and representatives, including personal and technological skills, immediately or strategically. The non-planned reaction which can be described as emotional and physical no matter what possessions, skills or qualities of a person (where the mental ability is in prison, and the only freed power is the physical) will loose but with excuse. Unfortunately most human reactions historically, are not planned but excused and justified. For example, Arabic language was considered an obstacle for the dominant colonial forces. Therefore, for people in Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Libya, Syria and Lebanon, French Language was introduced. The call for abolishing Arabic, the language of Qur’an was attacked, by some learned persons in European universities, Taha Hussein, for example in Egypt was a leading figure to
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