Compromise has a negative connotation.
If a group of people feels that it has been humiliated and that its honour has been trampled underfoot, it will want to express its identity and this expression of an identity will take different shapes and forms.
We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.
People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.
In order for answers to become clear, the questions have to be clear.
Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.
In many of the things that people do, they themselves are the centre of attention, but they inscribe some other name on their banner.
As a result of the awareness and consciousness of decline, an awareness and consciousness of a national ethnicity or an Islamic identity also came into being.
Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere.
We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what components they consist of. We must tackle small problems.
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Abdolkarim Soroush: Biography and Life Work
Abdolkarim Soroush was a notable Iranian Islamic and Rumi scholar. The story of Abdolkarim Soroush began on 16 December 1945 in Tehran, Imperial State of Iran.
Abdolkarim Soroush ( عبدالكريم سروش ( listen ⓘ ) Persian pronunciation: ), born Hossein Haj Faraj Dabbagh (born 16 December 1945; Persian : حسين حاج فرج دباغ ), is an Iranian Islamic and Rumi scholar, and a former professor of philosophy at the University of Tehran . He is among the most influential figures in the religious intellectual movement of Iran.
Philosophical Views and Reflections
Soroush's political theory is in line with the modern tradition from Locke to the framers of the American Constitution . It portrays human beings as weak and susceptible to temptation, even predation. As such, they need a vigilant and transparent form of government. He believes that the assumption of the innate goodness of mankind, shared by radical utopians from anarchists to Islamic fundamentalists underestimates the staying power of social evil and discounts the necessity of a government of checks and balances to compensate for the weaknesses of human nature.
Besides opposition from conservatives, Sourush has also been criticized by secular intellectuals who disapprove of the religious aspects of his ideas and argue that religious intellectualism is a paradoxical ideology.
