Heidegger East and West: Philosophy as Educative Contemplation

East is East and west is west.

This position paper addresses the long-standing criticism that the International Baccalaureate (IB) is too closely associated with Western values and, despite its title, does not enable students to see the world from a truly international perspective. Considering evidence from different authorities, it analyses the IB learner profile and asks how appropriate it is for the cultures of East Asia....

International Phenomenological Society Husserl , Heidegger , and Transcendental Philosophy :

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Perception as Information: An East-West Dialogue

With the Enlightenment, philosophers in the West recognized that the immediate given of perception is a mental image or representation, not an extra-mental object. That insight raised a pressing, epistemological question: to what degree, if any, do those mental images represent an extra-mental state of affairs? To phrase the question in slightly different terms: in what manner (if any) and to w...

Contemplation on the Position of Painting in Avicennian Philosophy

This paper examines the question that from what aspects Avicenna has discussed color and painting in his philosophy. In this research, Avicenna’s dispersed remarks on this subject have been reviewed, categorized, and analyzed. The result of this research shows that Avicenna’s greatest attention to this discussion, is found in his “Poetics” which is a part of the science of logic, and “Natural S...

Heredity, East and West