The spiritual quest: transcendence in myth, religion, and science

This paper is intended to describe how the integration of religion and science is done through the practice of PAI learning. This was done because there is a strong presumption in the wider community who say that religion and science are the two entities that can not be met. Both have their respective territories, separated from each other, in terms of formal-material objects, research methods, criteria of truth, the role played by scientists. There is also a view that science and religion stand at their respective position, because science rely on empirically supported data to ascertain what is real and what is not, contrary religion ready to accept the supernatural and certainly not only be based on tangible variables of faith and the belief that religion and science must coexist independently of each other, because even though there are similarities in their mission, the fundamental difference between the two present a conflict that will resonate on each core. Tulisan ini ditujukan untuk mendeskripsikan bagaimana integrasi agama dan sains dilakukan melalui praktik pembelajaran PAI. Hal itu dilakukan karena ada anggapan yang kuat dalam masyarakat luas yang mengatakan bahwa agama dan ilmu adalah dua entitas yang tidak dapat dipertemukan. Keduanya mempunyai wilayah masing-masing, terpisah antara satu dan lainnya, baik dari segi objek formalmaterial, metode penelitian, kriteria kebenaran, peran yang dimainkan oleh ilmuwan. Ada juga yang memandang bahwa sains dan agama berdiri pada posisinya masingmasing, karena bidang ilmu mengandalkan data yang didukung secara empiris untuk memastikan apa yang nyata dan apa yang tidak, agama sebaliknya siap menerima yang gaib dan tidak pasti hanya didasarkan pada variabel berwujud dari iman dan kepercayaan bahwa agama dan sains harus hidup berdampingan independen satu sama lain, sebab meskipun ada kesamaan dalam misi mereka, perbedaan mendasar antarakeduanya menyajikan sebuah konflik yang akan beresonansi pada inti masingmasing.

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INTEGRASI AGAMA DAN SAINS: MERESPON KELESUAN TRADISI ILMIAH DI PTAI

INSANIA Jurnal Pemikiran Alternatif Kependidikan ◽

10.24090/insania.v19i2.717 ◽

1970 ◽

Vol 19 (2) ◽

pp. 284-313

Author(s):

Muhammad Yunus

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Higher Education Institutions ◽

Religion And Science ◽

Future Studies ◽

Islamic Religion

This paper aims to examine the three main issues, those are the main challenges faced by higher education institutions of Islamic Religion (PTAI),the implementation of the integration of religion and science in PTAI, and PTAI response to secularization and Islamization of science. Those make this paper focuson the discussion how PTAI response to the challenges, so PTAI can offer objects and perspective studies of Islamic knowledge and science that are universal, not dichotomous impression, challenging and interesting in future studies. Tulisan ini bertujuan untuk mengkaji tiga masalah pokok, yaitu tantangan utama yang dihadapi oleh lembaga Pendidikan Tinggi Islam Agama (PTAI), implementasi integrasi agama dan sains di PTAI, dan respon PTAI terhadap sekularisasi dan Islamisasi sains. Hal itu menjadikan tulisan ini lebih menitikberatkan pada diskusi bagaimana respon PTAI terhadap berbagai tantangan, sehingga PTAI dapat menawarkan objek dan perspektif kajian pengetahuan Islam dan sains yang universal, tidak terkesan dikotomis, menantang dan menarik minat studi di masa depan.

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РЕЛИГИЯ И НАУКА: КОНФЛИКТ ИЛИ ДИАЛОГ? (ИССЛЕДОВАНИЕ МИРОВОЗЗРЕНЧЕСКИХ И СОЦИАЛЬНЫХ ПРОТИВОРЕЧИЙ В РОССИЙСКОМ ОБЩЕСТВЕ)

Konfliktologia ◽

10.31312/2310-6085-2018-13-4-97-110 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 13 (4) ◽

pp. 97

Author(s):

G. E. Bokov

Keyword(s):

Modern Science ◽

Academic Community ◽

Educational Process ◽

Point Of View ◽

Soviet Period ◽

Russian Society ◽

Religion And Science ◽

Russian Orthodox Church ◽

Official Position ◽

The Face

The article is devoted to the study of the worldviews and social contradictions in Russian society on the example of two different positions on the relationship between religion and science. According to one of these positions these relationships are defined as conflict. The second, opposing point of view says there never was and there cannot be any conflict between religion and science. In the publication such points are called “the paradigm of conflict” and “the paradigm of dialogue”. It shows, the first “paradigm” in the Soviet period of Russian history was determined by ideologization of science and was an important part of anti-religious propaganda. On the contrary, “the paradigm of dialogue” has always been represented primarily by religious thinkers. Today it is the official position of the Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate. The official Church document “The Basis of the Social Concept” says religion and science are designed to complement each other, especially in solving ethical problems that inevitably arise in the face of modern science. However, secular scientists often see in such statements the Church’s claims to active participation in the public life, including the educational process. Representatives of the academic community often speak out against the introduction of the theological educational programs and the theological departments in secular Universities of the Russian Federation. Thus, in contemporary Russian society some continue to believe that there is a conflict between religion and science, while others insist on the need for dialogue.

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Idleness and Freedom in Michel de Montaigne’s “Essays”

Philosophical Literary Journal Logos ◽

10.22394/0869-5377-2019-1-189-200 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 29 (1) ◽

pp. 189-202

Keyword(s):

Intellectual History ◽

Ancient Rome ◽

Spiritual Quest ◽

Guiding Principle ◽

Sextus Empiricus ◽

History Of ◽

Self Knowledge ◽

The Aesthetic ◽

The Relationship

The article advances a hypothesis about the composition of Michel de Montaigne’s Essays. Specialists in the intellectual history of the Renaissance have long considered the relationship among Montaigne’s thematically heterogeneous thoughts, which unfold unpredictably and often seen to contradict each other. The waywardness of those reflections over the years was a way for Montaigne to construct a self-portrait. Spontaneity of thought is the essence of the person depicted and an experimental literary technique that was unprecedented in its time and has still not been surpassed. Montaigne often writes about freedom of reflection and regards it as an extremely important topic. There have been many attempts to interpret the haphazardness of the Essays as the guiding principle in their composition. According to one such interpretation, the spontaneous digressions and readiness to take up very different philosophical notions is a form of of varietas and distinguo, which Montaigne understood in the context of Renaissance philosophy. Another interpretation argues that the Essays employ the rhetorical techniques of Renaissance legal commentary. A third opinion regards the Essays as an example of sprezzatura, a calculated negligence that calls attention to the aesthetic character of Montaigne’s writing. The author of the article argues for a different interpretation that is based on the concept of idleness to which Montaigne assigned great significance. He had a keen appreciation of the role of otium in the culture of ancient Rome and regarded leisure as an inner spiritual quest for self-knowledge. According to Montaigne, idleness permits self-directedness, and it is an ideal form in which to practice the freedom of thought that brings about consistency in writing, living and reality, in all of which Montaigne finds one general property - complete inconstancy. Socratic self-knowledge, a skepticism derived from Pyrrho of Elis and Sextus Empiricus, and a rejection of the conventions of traditional rhetoric that was similar to Seneca’s critique of it were all brought to bear on the concept of idleness and made Montaigne’s intellectual and literary experimentation in the Essays possible.

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