The Vanished Intellectual

Rick Moran wrote at American Thinker s blog

Liu He is perhaps the least visible of the key economic thinkers.

Japanese scholar Yoshihisa Hagiwara argues that since it is not grounded in fact, the nation state myth is bound to dissolve, giving way to an understanding that we are merely individuals who are part of a global community. He laments that the Japanese are especially fond of the idea of Japaneseness, making it possible that Japan may become the last hero of a dying ethos.

To an intellectual, an academic may look like someone who mistakes the means of inquiry for its end.

Most recently commenting on the latest remarks from Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO and mastermind, about Google It seems that the phenomenal success and proliferation of Android OS powered phones (and soon enough tablet computers) is one of the things that are worrying Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple.

Taiwanese scholar Lee Hsiao feng has recently argued that the concept Chinese is a meaningless word that was fabricated to justify rule over minorities.

But to academics, intellectuals look like ramblers freely trespassing on other people s property, picking the fruits and despoiling the soil.

In particular, the French Catholic thinker Jacques Maritain developed arguments as to why Christians should embrace democracy and human rights.

At the end of 2011 we contemplated asking you, dear reader, who you think was the most influential African thinker alive.

The intellectual s ethic is both exhilarating and harsh, for it places responsibility for thinking squarely on the thinker s shoulders.

Nkrumah invited W.E.B. Du Bois, the most important black intellectual of the twentieth century, to Ghana in 1961.

Last month, at Biola University, a Christian college in southern California, I debated the existence of God with the conservative commentator Dinesh D Souza.

A leading public intellectual Naoki Inose, who is also Tokyo s vice governor, has declared that the era of growth is over.

As the Jordanian intellectual and former foreign minister Marwan al Muasher has argued, state and religious interpretations of history, science, and political values are hammered into Arab students.

The Western scholar remains perfectly legitimate when putting to death Western values there is no Chinese or Muslim Nietzsche claiming that his own God is dead.

Bloggers and tweeps remember him in this round up of reactions from across the Arab world. A leading liberal voice in Saudi Arabia, Dr Al Gosaibi obtained his early education in Bahrain, where he has relatives, and where later on in his long career he served as Saudi Ambassador.

American Thinker editor and publisher Thomas Lifson wrote that the book presents Christian theology in a way that it can be understood and digested by Muslims. .

When geo strategic military front lines are non existent, as in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq, mass no longer equals victory. The great military thinker Carl von Clausewitz s notion of decisive battles as the center of gravity of war is simply irrelevant to conflicts that have no visible center of gravity.

Kishore Mahbubani, a leading foreign policy thinker from Singapore, recently proclaimed in Vienna, at a conference organized by my institute, that the next millennium would be Asian.

Who is the most influential African thinker alive? Africa is a Country blog wants readers to vote for one influential African thinker from a list of 12 candidates.

During the early years of Zionism, the great Jewish scholar Gershom Scholem who was born in Berlin said that the Jews were embarking on a difficult journey, a return to history.

Likewise, it has been agreed to create the Gerard Pierre Charles chair at the State University of Haiti in recognition of the work of that distinguished intellectual and politician of Haiti who lived in Mexico for more than 20 years.

To ensure a system s sustainability, its design must account for what Nassim N. Taleb called rare black swan events which, as the global economic crisis demonstrated, do occur, with devastating consequences.

In August 1945, a French intellectual, Alexandre Kojève, submitted to General Charles de Gaulle a sketch for a new foreign policy, based on a Latin third way between Anglo American capitalism and Soviet Slavic Marxism.

Likewise, as France slides into a governance crisis and its leaders credibility rapidly erodes, the leading French intellectual Alain Minc has published Vive l Allemagne ( Long Live Germany ), in which he argues that Germany is Europe s healthiest and most democratic country.

It drives people from the smart part of the brain that dark, deep well of the subconscious, where instincts and experience, and all the other factors of creativity and good judgment are it drives us to the thin veneer of conscious logic.

Japanese scholar Yoshihisa Hagiwara argues that since it is not grounded in fact, the nation state myth is bound to dissolve, giving way to an understanding that we are merely individuals who are part of a global community.

Can China open up without going the way of multi party rule? In fact, the great nineteenth century British political thinker John Stuart Mill advocated liberal government without multi party rule.

We abandoned the idea for a while because of our thing against lists (except our end of year lists, of course). I got the initial idea from the British blog, Left Foot Forward, which had run a contest to determine the most influential leftwing thinker of the year 2010 11.

He was a philosopher in the same sense that Socrates was a thinker who questioned what others take for granted, and probed human feelings and actions to help us understand how we can better ourselves and lead lives that are morally superior, yet also more fulfilling.

Accordingly, the 13th century scholar Li Ye, who argued that the movements of the round heaven would be hindered by a square Earth, did not advocate a spherical Earth, but rather that its edge should be rounded off so as to be circular.

In 1863, the Russian democratic émigré thinker Alexander Herzen, commenting on the brutal crushing of the Polish uprising by the Tsarist army, wrote in his publicationKolokol that acceptance of violence on the streets of Warsaw meant the acceptance of violence on the streets of St. Petersburg.

Of course, Germany s eagerness to discharge the burden of history is not new. Back in 1998, the renowned intellectual Martin Walser publicly attacked the pervasiveness of Auschwitz in Germany s remembrance culture, declaring that the Holocaust had become a moral cudgel with which to intimidate all Germans and keep them in a perpetual state of guilt.