FIKA-F Events
FIKA Follow-up (FIKA-F)
Follow-up of National Workshop on Fundamentals of Knowledge and its Acquisition.
March 2015, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India.
Co-Sponsor: Centre for Studies & Research (CSR), Hyderabad, India.
A ground-breaking, India level Workshop on ‘Fundamental Issues in Knowledge and its Acquisition (FIKA)’, was held in Aligarh Muslim University on 26 – 30 March 2015. As the Report says, the Workshop presented and discussed a critique and plan of rectification of contemporary Learning, particularly Modern Science, that would ensure both the carrying- ahead of the science-driven high standard of life, as well as, the solution of the multifarious crises of environment, civilization and Meaning, besetting this process. The Workshop was attended by faculty members, doctoral scholars and post-graduate students from a wide range of disciplines: Philosophy, Islamic Studies, Psychology, History, Law, English, Education, Mass Communication, Islamic Studies, Unani Medicine, Western Medicine, Physics etc.
The Workshop centre-staged the scheme of Integral Reality: Transcendental, Supra-Material and Physical and the corresponding scheme of Integral Learning: Metaphysics, Cosmology and Sciences. It then identified the place of various Disciplines of the Modern and Traditional streams, within these schemes of Reality and Learning, to characterize the strengths and limitations of each discipline, and the transformations needed for maximizing the strengths and redressing the limitations. The conclusions at the Workshop were adopted as Resolutions.
At the specific level: the Workshop drew upon the experience of comparative practice and theory of Unani Medicine and Western Medicine, in the area of Natural Sciences; and, in Human Sciences, the comparison of the methods used for studying Islamic Civilization, by Modern Human Sciences and by Shah Waliullah, respectively. At the basic level: the Workshop drew upon expressions of the Islamic Tradition in the Indo-Pak Subcontinent from Shah Waliullah onwards. Another basic input was the re-stated Traditional Philosophy: Islamic, Hindu, Buddhist, Neo-platonic, Christian/Scholastic and Far Eastern, occurring in the 20th century.
The equal focus on Modern and Traditional Learning at the Aligarh Muslim University and by the Indian Society and State, such as, the promotion of both Modern Medicine and Traditional Medicines, namely, Ayurveda and Unani Medicine, provides the basic cultural and academic matrix for developing Integral Learning.
The Workshop was an attempt at compiling and developing the fundamental issues in the process of critiquing existing Learning, oriented to certain practical applications, namely, discipline formulation and research problem delineation.
A well-defined multistep Follow-up of the Workshop was announced at the Valedictory Function
We are happy to announce a Preview of two follow-up exercises of immense significance:
1.Online Course entitled, Certificate in Fundamentals of Science (C-FOS)
2.National Conference on Philosophy-based Optimization of Sciences (CPOS)
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