Worldviews and Cultures: Philosophical Reflections on Fundamental Intricate Issues from an Intercultural Perspective (Einstein Meets Magritte: An Interdisciplinary ... Nature, Art, Human Action and Society)

Globalization brings people and cultures together, producing, in addition to deep and rich encounters, exclusion, racism, xenophobia and asymmetries. The present book takes these issues implicitly as its starting point by thoroughly reflecting on them from a perspective of worldviews, as one of many approaches. More specifically, it focuses on people s implicit and explicit interpretations and assumptions of the world, of themselves and of others. Often deeply rooted and hard to change, they have an important function, for without them we would continually need to question what we do and what we think. In their absolutist form, these assumptions may become a barrier for open-mindedness, and hence for deep intercultural understanding and exchange. We need to find a balance between both stances. Intercultural philosophy tries to fulfil this role, on the one hand by comparing different cultures on a deep philosophical level, and as a way to better understand each other s core assumptions, and on the other hand by arguing for an intercultural philosophy grounded in specific cases. The contributions of this book conceive of "another possible world" which does not condemn cultural and religious diversity as a detonator for "Clashes of Civilizations", but rather welcomes it as a source of inspiration for all and of respect for the "different".

Globalization brings people and cultures together, producing, in addition to deep and rich encounters, exclusion, racism, xenophobia and asymmetries. The present book takes these issues implicitly as its starting point by thoroughly reflecting on them from a perspective of worldviews, as one of many approaches.

More specifically, it focuses on people’s implicit and explicit interpretations and assumptions of the world, of themselves and of others. Often deeply rooted and hard to change, they have an important function, for without them we would continually need to question what we do and what we think. In their absolutist form, these assumptions may become a barrier for open-mindedness, and hence for deep intercultural understanding and exchange. We need to find a balance between both stances.

Intercultural philosophy tries to fulfil this role, on the one hand by comparing different cultures on a deep philosophical level, and as a way to better understand each other’s core assumptions, and on the other hand by arguing for an intercultural philosophy grounded in specific cases. The contributions of this book conceive of "another possible world" which does not condemn cultural and religious diversity as a detonator for "Clashes of Civilizations", but rather welcomes it as a source of inspiration for all and of respect for the "different".

Cover......Page 1 Einstein Meets Magritte 10......Page 3 Worldviews and Cultures......Page 4 ISBN 9781402045028......Page 5 Contents......Page 6 Worldview and Cultures: Philosophical Refl ections from an Intercultural Perspective. An Introduction......Page 8 Ways of the Intellect: Forms of Discourse and Rationalization Processes in the Arabic-Islamic Context......Page 18 Comparative Philosophy: A Methodological Approach......Page 38 A Methodological Framework for Cross-Tradition Understanding and Constructive Engagement......Page 76 Cosmopraxis and Contextualising Among the Contemporary Aymara......Page 94 A Worldly View of Worldview Metaphysics......Page 110 Andean Philosophy as a Questioning Alterity: An Intercultural Criticism of Western Andro- and Ethnocentrism......Page 136 Intercultural Philosophy from a Latin American Perspective......Page 156 Hermeneutic Philosophy and Human Experience: An Intercultural Perspective of Worldviews and Life World in the Mapuche Culture......Page 170 Towards an Intercultural Construction of Rationality......Page 188 Universalism and Relativism of Knowledge Dissipate. The Intercultural Perspective......Page 198 Name Index......Page 208 Subject Index......Page 212