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Nayef R. F. Al-Rodhan is a Saudi philosopher, neuroscientist, geostrategist, and author. He is an Honorary Fellow of St. Antony’s College at Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom, Senior Fellow and Centre Director of the Geopolitics and Global Futures Programme at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, Geneva, Switzerland. Wikipedia  

✵ 8. June 1959
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Nayef Al-Rodhan Quotes

“Civilisational triumph is important because if it is not actively sought, conflictual relations between members of geo-cultural domains may become a self-fulfilling prophecy.”

Nayef Al-Rodhan

Source: Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man (2009), p.219

“The notion of innate knowledge (including moral knowledge) is rejected, but that of moral sensitivities is accepted.”

Nayef Al-Rodhan

Source: Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man (2009), p.108

Knowledge

“3D printing is going to transform our societies, our freedoms and our sense of security.”

Nayef Al-Rodhan

Printing the Future? http://www.isn.ethz.ch/Digital-Library/Articles/Detail/?ots591=4888caa0-b3db-1461-98b9-e20e7b9c13d4&lng=en&id=172924 - ISN ETH Zurich, November 2013

Sense , Freedom

“We are therefore driven by both basic survival instincts and rational thought.”

Nayef Al-Rodhan

Source: Emotional amoral egoism (2008), p.15