Thursday, October 8, 2015
Nietzche: "What has ever uplifted your soul"
On her great blog, Brain Pickings, Maria Popova quotes a passage from Nietzsche on how to find your identity: “Let the young soul survey its own life with a view of the following question: ‘What have you truly loved thus far? What has ever uplifted your soul, what has dominated and delighted it at the same time?’ ” Line up these revered objects in a row, Nietzsche says, and they will reveal your fundamental self.http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/06/opinion/david-brooks-the-big-university.html
Wednesday, October 7, 2015
A Multidisciplinary Conference on Islamic Theology, Law, and Biomedicine
Addresses the discursive and scholarly knowledge gaps impeding Islam and Science discourses through a 3-day multidisciplinary conference on the intersections of Islamic Theology and Law with Biomedicine.
Who: The Initiative on Islam and Medicine of the Program at the University of Chicago
When: Friday, April 15th - Sunday, April 17th
Where: University of Chicago - Ida Noyes Hall 1212 E. 59th Street Chicago, IL 60637
Link to promotional flyer (pdf)
Call for Abstracts
The conference invites participants to share their work—be it using empirical, historical, theological, ethico-legal, social scientific, or other research methods—at the intersection of Islam and biomedicine. Papers will be grouped thematically into panels according to field of inquiry—scholastic theology (kalam), moral theology (usul al- fiqh), ethics/law (fiqh, adab, ahklaq), epistemology, empirical health research, and biomedical practice—and each panel will be brought to a close by a scholarly respondent commenting on the implications for cross-disciplinary dialogue and research that emerge from the presented work. While abstracts on any topic of relevance are welcome, presenters should consider the following two questions to be the primary focus of the conference.
How might scientific notions of harm and risk relate to, and work with, Islamic constructs of necessity and benefit in the context of biomedicine?
What is an Islamic ontology of the soul? How does it relate to, and how might it work with, modern neuroscientific data, in order to inform a better understanding of death and care for the dying?
CLICK HERE to submit an abstract. All proposals are due December 16, 2015.Via Shaykh Omar Qureshi
Tuesday, October 6, 2015
The central Buddhist concept of emptiness or voidness
"In essence, Vimalakīrti clears up the confusions surrounding the central Buddhist concept of emptiness, or voidness--presenting it not as nihilism but rather, in the translator's words, "as the joyous and compassionate commitment to living beings born from an unwavering confrontation with the inconceivable profundity of ultimate reality."
-Robert Thurman (translator), The Holy Teaching of Vimalakīrti: A Mahāyāna Scripture (First published in 1976).
-Robert Thurman (translator), The Holy Teaching of Vimalakīrti: A Mahāyāna Scripture (First published in 1976).
Monday, October 5, 2015
Sunday, October 4, 2015
Politico NYC: Activists urge de Blasio to avoid federal counterterrorism program
The signers, including officials from the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the National Lawyers Guild, among others, said the program will "brand" Muslims as "inherently suspicious and somehow less American than others.”http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/city-hall/2015/09/8577559/activists-urge-de-blasio-avoid-federal-counterterrorism-program
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