Tag: history of science

• In Search Of Satyagraha: Richard Gregg, Gandhi, and King’s Pilgrimage to Nonviolence

  Dr. King imprisoned for his leadership of the Montgomery bus boycott, 1956 In the following letter to Richard Bartlett Gregg (1885-1974), a white American pacifist and social theorist, presents his thoughts on Gandhi had a significant influence on Martin Luther King Jr., the leader of the American Civil Rights movement responds to an offer of…

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  March 25, 2019

  Gandhi, Howard Thurman, India, Martin Luther King Jr., Pan-Africanism, politics, W.E.B Du Bois, Year of Gandhi

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• The Moral Government of the World: On Faith, Reason, and Truth

  I. THE SOUL-FORCE IN HISTORY In his spiritual message to the world, notable because it is one of the rare extant speeches Mohandas K. Gandhi gave in English, the satygrahi remarked that There is an indefinable mysterious power that pervades everything, I feel it though I do not see it. It is this unseen power…

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  March 15, 2019

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• Tagore on Scientific Inquiry and Self-Realization

  Yet no one really believes that science is the one perfect mode of disseminating mistakes. The progressive ascertainment of Truth is the important thing to remember in the history of science, not its innumerable mistakes. Error, by its nature, cannot be stationary; it cannot remain with truth; like a tramp, it must quit its lodging…

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  March 2, 2019

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• Asia in Africa

  

  In the ninth chapter of his 1946 inquiry The World and Africa, which explores the role played by Africa in the ancient and modern world, W.E.B Du Bois theorizes the black foundations of Asiatic civilization, citing as evidence the African origins of the name “Nahsi” and the black features of the Buddha and Krishna, two…

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  June 24, 2018

  Black Athena, black Buddha, India, Pan Asia, Pan-Africanism, Uncategorized, W.E.B Du Bois, Year of Du Bois

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