Worldviews and Cultures Philosophical Reflections from an Intercultu

Globalization brings people and cultures together, producing, in addition to deep and rich encounters, exclusion, racism, xenophobia and asymmetries. The present book takes these issues implicitly as its starting point by thoroughly reflecting on them fro

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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 [email protected]

Josef Estermann Instituto Superior Ecuménico Andino de Teología, Bolivia [email protected]

Raúl Fornet-Betancout Universities of Bremen and Aachen Germany [email protected]

Diederik Aerts Leo Apostel Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies, Brussels Free University, Belgium [email protected]

ISBN 978-1-4020-4502-8

e-ISBN 978-1-4020-5754-0

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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 Abdeljelil Comparative Philosophy: A Methodological Approach ............................. Ulrich Libbrecht

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A Methodological Framework for Cross-Tradition Understanding and Constructive Engagement ........................................... Bo Mou

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Cosmopraxis and Contextualising Among the Contemporary Aymara ............................................................................................................ Koen de Munter and Nicole Note

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A Worldly View of Worldview Metaphysics ................................................ Helen Lauer Andean Philosophy as a Questioning Alterity: An Intercultural Criticism of Western Androand Ethnocentrism ......................................................................................... Josef Estermann Intercultural Philosophy from a Latin American Perspective ................... Raúl Fornet-Betancourt

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Hermeneutic Philosophy and Human Experience: An Intercultural Perspective of Worldviews and Life World in the Mapuche Culture ........................................................................................... Ricardo Salas Towards an Intercult