Science and Modernity: A Critical Needs

Modernism in Tunisia; from formation to the emergence of a critical view to modernity (1881-1937)

Tunisia became acquainted with modernism in the early nineteenth century, due to relation with Egypt and Ottoman, and interaction with France, which were of the main origins of modernism. Modernism in Tunisia began with the renovations of Ahmed Bey (d. 1837-1855). This modernism continued until the beginning of French colonization (1881) and the emergence of critical views to modernity. Tunisia...

Philosophical Evaluation from Science and Technology in a Replacing Civilization with Emphasis on Critical Re-reading of Modern Science

In the present study, the dignity of science and technology in modern civilizations is evaluated as the vital status of the ontological and of "Being" and "Not-Being" type, while emphasizing that the problem description in religious models of new civilization cannot be reduced to the acquisition of modern and strategic science and technologies; Accordingly, this article, while reviewing and cri...

Phenomenology and Post-Modernity

Phenomenology and Post-Modernity

The Impacts of Modernity upon Religiosity: A Critical Study of Charles Taylor

The relationship between modernity and religiosity has been in the center of many scholarly debates. Among others, Charles Taylor presents in his works a general picture of the elements that shape the secular age. He starts with the question why people used to be faithful, while they are not easily so in our age. To answer, he explores the past five centuries in the West and coins some terms to...