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Council for Research in Values and Philosophy

A set of International Conferences to be held in Africa and Asia May-July 2017. For more information visit www.crvp.org.

A set of international Conferences to be held at various universities across India December 2016 and January 2017. For more information visit www.crvp.org

annual seminar ”Re-Learning to be Human for Global Times: Structure and Role of Compassion”

Predicaments & Solutions of Contemporary Moral Education in China

An Introduction to The History of Chinese Film & its Current Market

It is both an honor and a challenge to draft the Preface for this volume of the English language writings of Professor Tang Yijie. The honor derives from the prestige of the author; the challenge lies in adequately expressing the importance of his work at this juncture in the history of Chinese thought and life. Professor Tang Yijie was born on Jan...

The various articles in this volume emerge out of an international conference held at the Fujen Catholic University in Taipei, Taiwan on 13-14 December 2013. Whilst the themes treated by these articles are quite diverse the conference at which they were presented shared a common purpose with the Council for Research in Values and Philosophy. The Co...

Public Lectures

Most of the chapters in this volume were intensively discussed by an international team at the University of Zimbabwe. The chapters cover three broad areas of philosophical interest, namely: Culture, Tradition and Development and/or progress. In total the volume has ten papers all written by Zimbabwean Philosophers and others with a philosophical i...

Samuel Huntington’s controversial 1993 essay, “The Clash of Civilizations?”1 – expanded in 1996, with the question mark removed, as The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order2 – advanced the view that, in the contemporary world, after the fall of Communism and the end of the Cold War, the primary source of conflict will be people’s...

Message from the President: 2015 was a year of multiple achievements: 15 books published, over ten international conferences held in many countries and two seminars conducted in Romania and Washington. Below is the detailed summary of these activities. 2016 is already proving to be another active year. Please continue to send your ideas and suggest...

The pieces assembled in this book respond to the complex set of preoccupations connected not only with rethinking philosophy as a discipline on a global scale, but also with its re-mapping and being situated in the new geo-cultural world order. In particular, this enables reconceptualization of the relations of Russia, the West and the East as epis...

postmodernism was a reaction to an uncritical fascination with the ideas of Enlightenment and to the Nietzschean announcement of the death of God. Its claims seemed to be justified in an age when the faith that progress would accompany rational reflection had broken down in the barracks of Auschwitz and exceptionally profound cultural transformatio...

This book investigates the Oromo environmental ethic and the relationship between indigenous and modern environmental ethics. It aims to sift useful ideas within Oromo indigenous beliefs and practices which are relevant to environmentally and socially sound development. This process undercuts some of the modern arguments and opinions about what cou...

The title of this book may surprise many readers and, therefore, demands a word of explanation. The book is concerned with human knowledge and its consequences. Knowledge is a complex phenomenon, which can be studied from different points of view. The theory of the ecology of knowledge developed by the present writer is one of them. First, the very...

Contemporaneity is the present, which includes the past and the future. As a moment of the space-time continuum in a concentrated state, contemporaneity expresses both discreteness and endlessness. That is because history consists of a multitude of concrete historical and local contemporaneities. Contemporaneity is “here and now,” while the past is...

If there be truth to the commonplace that the first millenium was focused upon God and the second upon man, then this beginning of the third millennium should be the opportunity to unite both. This would render religion more inspiring and transformative and thereby enable humankind to be more holy and social. The radical character of the present c...