‘Faith’ in fact is such a strange word today, let alone ‘religious faith’. Strange, since despite its ubiquity, the word seems to have lost its vigour and credence. Perhaps this is on the one hand due to the violent excesses of religious faith, and on the other, related to the pretension of modern scientific rationality to be neutral -as if it has nothing to do with any sort of faith…
One of the most problematic issues today is the concept of “self ”. The history of modern philosophy has always been struggling between the ambition of comprehending the objective reality of the universe ‘out there’ and its indispensable anthropocentric bias ‘in here’. Indeed Western modern philosophy had been characterised by the primacy of the self as the rational “subject…
Sounds, songs, images, ‘image’, and moving pictures, when creating space and filling up time will unleash the hidden verve of imagination. Not only to the mystics and those who have their own religion, these ‘imagerial’ realities always bring necessary interruptions to the most non-spiritual people on earth. Our senses are no more of a lesser degree for any philosophical discourse. In t…