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”.

An introductory series of videos from past events can be watched at
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkCiNL_gZp2chIX3Hk5gHXf9bzxcjVxNA

CJ Fearnley's site "Collaborating for Comprehensivism" has more information on the idea: https://www.cjfearnley.com/CfC/

July 15: Why Be a Comprehensivist? — a Panel Discussion. http://y2u.be/qjwTy6pGkNA
‪July 22: Louis Sullivan’s Ideas: Art of Expression & Form Follows Function with Architect Sherri Tracinski & Shrikant‬ https://youtu.be/oM8vbQQ-4MU
‪Jul 29: Humanity's Great Traditions of Inquiry and Action with CJ‬ Fearnley http://y2u.be/8RuHE_3FMUs
‪Aug 12: The Necessities and Impossibilities of Comprehensivism with CJ Fearnley http://y2u.be/u6372Te2YA8
‪Sep 16: The Fundamental Role of Story in Our Lives with CJ Fearnley https://youtu.be/4UvDO2z0bjo
‪Oct 14: The Comprehensive Thinking of R. Buckminster Fuller with CJ Fearnley http://y2u.be/sPjcJjnHzKU
Nov 18: The Value of The Ethnosphere with CJ Fearnley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixgxwR29_WY
Dec 16: Value of Multiple Working Hypotheses with CJ Fearnley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpIHsVIzGlw
Jan 13: The Inductive Attitude: A Moral Basis for Science and Comprehensivism with CJ Fearnley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5dv4daAxL4
Feb 17: Mistake Mystique in Learning and in Life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awxp5owgjiI

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