The Return of Philosophy

Jamal Al Shehhi

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27 May 2023

Philosophy has returned to us, to our schools and universities after a long hiatus.

Means ask: What is the meaning of the return of philosophy and why? And what is its importance to our society?

Let me define philosophy as the consciousness of the mind of the lived world, and the activity of the mind in discovering the right questions about existence, knowledge, values, and beauty.

With its concepts, methods and logic, it is capable of practicing cognitive criticism, as well as providing awareness of the tools of creative dialogue in all fields that would contribute to the development of our country and its future.

If this philosophy is and is this, it is of great importance to the individual, to the group and to the institution.

Since her obsession with objectivity is in judgments about the world, and freedom from everything that hinders the mind from objective thinking, she reveals beyond the appearance of things, the deep causes that explain to us social, political and value phenomena.

Since its inception, the United Arab Emirates has paid attention to the aforementioned importance of philosophy, and made it a subject for learning in schools, and if some circumstances wish to distance it from the field of education, here is our country returning it to its former state, and in a new form of appearance.

Philosophy goes back to the teaching curricula, philosophy goes back to the departments of the faculties of arts and humanities, to civil dialogue in cultural activities, to the publication of the most important translated and untranslated philosophy books, written in pure philosophical Arabic.

Mohamed bin Zayed University announces the opening of the Department of Philosophy under the name of Philosophy and Ethics.

This will have a significant impact on the formation of a generation of philosophy graduates that countries need in all their educational, cultural, educational and media activities, in addition to the intention to open a postgraduate department in philosophy, where many of those affiliated with the master's and doctoral degrees will find the opportunity to address topics related to the reality of living in a theoretical manner, and this means the formation of an academic cadre back to provide the university and society with specialists, who in turn will become a school for graduating generations and so on.

In this regard, it should be noted that the House of Philosophy in Fujairah was established more than two years ago, and which is considered a unique Arab phenomenon, as it turned into an Arab philosophical complex, and its new building was inaugurated a few days ago.

The United Arab Emirates, while proposing a strategy to build a society of happiness, tolerance and enlightenment, by restoring philosophy, as the science of thinking about human happiness and respect, which is based on the ideas of truth and recognition of truth, provides cultural life with everything that promotes societal dialogue and promotes the values of tolerance and love among members of society and all its inhabitants of the world.

The philosophy of tolerance has been an integral part of the activity of philosophy since its inception until now.

Our ancestors among the Arab philosophers made human happiness their main concern.

In this sense, we complete the Arab philosophical obsession with the dawn of philosophy anew in our rational state.

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