Re: [ALOCHONA] Knowledge and Realism.

Dear Mr. Akbar Hussain,

People who think that historical, philosophical or religious books, of any kind, should be burned give me the impression that they have never enjoyed reading the written word.  In a symbolic act of ominous significance, on 10 May 1933, the Nazis burned upwards of 25,000 volumes of "Un-German Spirit",  books, presaging an era of state censorship and control of culture. Your small article on Knowledge and Realism makes me feel to answer here. I do like to discuss with you in my facebook forum "Bangladesh School of Philosophy"; because Alochona has become a forum of political parties, and only criticizing the present government of Bangladesh. You can't start any philosophical discussion there. I was a founder member of Alochona and saw the development during the last 10 years, it became a Forum Politico. We need a "School of Philosophy" as a research establishment, like that of "The Collège de France", Michel Foucault has a permanent chair at that establishment.

I do like to discuss with you on philosophical view of Habermas and Derrida on Democracy or Social Democracy. As you know that the post modern German Philosopher Juergen Habarmass, father of  "Theory of the Social Democracy" who has positioned himself as a defender of modernity—but a modernity of a certain kind. Habermas contends that the project of modernity can be seen as unfinished, and that, through communicative action, an on-going normative rationalization is possible. Jacques Derrida, on the other hand, belongs to the side of postmodern critique.
I hope you will join in our "Bangladesh School of Philosophy" soon.

With best thanking - Monaz Haque

 

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From: Akbar Hussain

Sent: 05/29/11 06:32 PM

To: Alochona

Subject: [ALOCHONA] Knowledge and Realism.

  Castigating Terry Jones for his stupid burning of the Koran is easy  because fools deserve this. In the same way if anyone tries to burn  any other historical book including Adolf Hitler's the Mein Kampf  needs to be condemned equally. In the realm of knowledge books are the  silent witness of the eternity and their importance in understanding  the past can't be over emphasized. I don't find any difference between  those who killed dozens of people in Afghanistan to protest the  burning of the Koran and priest Terry Jones. The Koran is a vivid  documentation of the early medieval pagan Arab society beyond its  religious importance. I read the Koran and the History of the Rise and  fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbons with equal importance. Both  of them are scholastic and poetic in essence and contents. Problem  arises when we examine these books with reverence and super natural  powers. Human intellect does not come from the sky it's a product of  observations and interpretations. In my book shelf I have the Bible,  the Koran, Torah and Gita in the same row. A friend of mine expressed  his deep dissatisfaction after looking at my shelf and urged me to put  the Koran some where else because he thinks this book is superior to  any other book. I could not agree with him and left my shelf  undisturbed.   I respect his personal belief but deeply felt sorry for his poor  observations. I know a person who says that he profusely cry when  reading the Koran in the middle of the night and reason he himself  does not know.  In the realm of intellectual business blind faith is  not a component in anyway. When people claim that God is the fountain  of all knowledge no fool will ever reach His domain.   Akbar Hussain    ------------------------------------  

 

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