Comprehensivism in the Islamic Golden Age @ Comprehensivist Wednesdays

This event will explore the practice of comprehensivity, our inclination to integrate all Humanity's sources of learning so as to better comprehend the world and how it works, in the Islamic Golden Age which occurred roughly between the 8th and 14th centuries CE.

To understand the modern world and the history of science, we need to understand the path-breaking intellectual changes of the Islamic Golden Age. When Islamic curated learning starting entering Europe in the 11th century it would gradually spur an intellectual reawakening followed by the Renaissance, the Age of European Capitalist Empires, and the modern world. Readers of Dante's "Comedìa" will find this historical context to Dante's epic poem illuminating.

The topic is informed by three exquisite hour long BBC documentaries on "Science and Islam" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_and_Islam_(TV_series) with the award-winning physicist Jim Al-Khalili https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Al-Khalili as host:

1. "The Language of Science": http://y2u.be/stJOl0PYHUE

2. "The Empire of Reason": http://y2u.be/z-xQKfMWK2Y

3. "The Power of Doubt": http://y2u.be/SwHvQiihXg4

Here is my essay interpreting those three videos with additional context: https://www.cjfearnley.com/CfC/2021/07/comprehensivism-in-the-islamic-golden-age

Welcome to the series "Comprehensivist Wednesdays". Transdisciplinarity, Renaissance humanism, homo universalis, and Polymathy are some of the ways of describing this approach which Buckminster Fuller called Comprehensivity and described as “macro-comprehensive and micro-incisive”.

July 15: Why Be a Comprehensivist? — a Panel Discussion.
Watch here: https://youtu.be/qjwTy6pGkNA
‪July 22: Louis Sullivan’s Ideas: Art of Expression & Form Follows Function with Architect Sherri Tracinski & Shrikant‬
Watch it here: https://youtu.be/oM8vbQQ-4MU
‪Jul 29: Humanity's Great Traditions of Inquiry and Action with CJ‬ Fearnley
Watch it here: https://youtu.be/8RuHE_3FMUs
‪Aug 5: Optimize Everything: Interview with mathematician Spencer Greenberg on Psychology, society, technology & science‬
‪Aug 12: The Necessities and Impossibilities of being a Comprehensivist‬
‪Aug 19: Polymaths in 21st Century with Angela‬
‪Aug 26: Art Education: Individual & Society with Karen ‬
‪Sep 2: Neuroscience: Why are our Habits so Powerful? with Sanjay‬
‪Sep 9: Four Cardinal Greek Virtues in Visual Art & Mythology by John Roth
‪Sep 16: Literature and our lives: the Fiction of Relationship‬
‪Sep 23: Lightening Talks (Talk for 5 minutes about what you are exploring)‬
Sep 30: The Great Conversation & Syntopicon of Mortimer Adler with Shrikant

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