Worldviews and Cultures
EINSTEIN MEETS MAGRITTE: An Interdisciplinary Reflection on Science, Nature, Art, Human Action and Society Series Editor Diederik Aerts, Leo Apostel Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies, Brussels Free University, Belgium
VOLUME 10
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Worldviews and Cultures Philosophical Reflections from an Intercultural Perspective Edited by
Nicole Note Raúl Fornet-Betancout Josef Estermann Diederik Aerts
Editors Nicole Note Leo Apostel Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies, Brussels Free University, Belgium
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Josef Estermann Instituto Superior Ecuménico Andino de Teología, Bolivia
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Raúl Fornet-Betancout Universities of Bremen and Aachen Germany
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Diederik Aerts Leo Apostel Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies, Brussels Free University, Belgium
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Contents
Worldview and Cultures: Philosophical Reflections from an Intercultural Perspective. An Introduction ................................... Nicole Note, Raúl Fornet-Betancourt, Josef Estermann, and Diederik Aerts Ways of the Intellect: Forms of Discourse and Rationalization Processes in the Arabic-Islamic Context ...................................................... Jameleddine Ben A