States Without Citizens: Understanding the Islamic CrisisTerrorist attacks on America and its allies and persistent violence in the Islamic world point to a crisis in Islamic society, which States without Citizens attributes to an unfulfilled quest for an Islamic renaissance. The Islamic states, whose borders were arbitrarily imposed by Western states, are beset by pervasive socioeconomic problems—authoritarian rule, economic inequities, educational shortcomings, development project failures, sexual frustration—that are being exploited by radical Islamists. Native attempts to modernize Islamic society by adopting Western ways have repeatedly foundered because they have sought to replicate the trappings of state power while neglecting their foundation in civic ethics. To mitigate the violence engendered by the Islamic crisis, the author recommends that culturally authentic institutions must be created that will instill a civic ethics of common cause and public service. |
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... Aristotle's works in particular stimulated interests in both natural sciences and social thought . Except for the application of Aristotelian logic in theology , Latin Christian Europe had long ignored the works of the famous ...
... Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics becomes available to Latin Europe as a revised , complete translation from Greek manuscripts and adds to the growing corpus of Latin translations of Aristotle's works . Mongols capture and sack Baghdad ...
... Aristotle , " what effectively distinguishes the citizen proper from all others is his participation in giving judgment and in holding office . " 1 He further clar- ifies this definition in relation to that of the state : " as soon as a ...
Contents
Cultures in History | 13 |
Contrast in Ethics | 27 |
Critique of Endeavors | 53 |
Copyright | |
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