Nayef Al-Rodhan: Quotes about knowledge

Nayef Al-Rodhan is philosopher, neuroscientist, geostrategist, and author. Explore interesting quotes on knowledge.
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“Knowledge is also inferred from what is accepted as established knowledge, with new knowledge being based on the best explanation. This includes possible truths subject to proof.”

Nayef Al-Rodhan

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

Truth , Knowledge

“Knowledge about things beyond our immediate environment may be acquired through deduction, if the initial premises are believed to be correct.”

Nayef Al-Rodhan

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

Knowledge

“All knowledge is to some extent interpreted.”

Nayef Al-Rodhan

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

Knowledge

“Morally relevant emotions are essential for living in social groups and they provide the basis on which we may construct conceptual frameworks that help guide our actions, but human beings should more accurately be thought of as being endowed with morally relevant capacities rather than innate moral knowledge.”

Nayef Al-Rodhan

Source: Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man (2009), p.128

Knowledge , Help

“Much of what we often consider knowledge is actually a point of view held without sufficient grounds: in a word, dogma.”

Nayef Al-Rodhan

Knowledge and Global Order https://www.academia.edu/4418949/Knowledge_and_Global_Order_-_BBVA_OpenMind_August_2013/ - BBVA OpenMind, August 2013

Knowledge

“There is a physical neurobiological substrate to all human knowledge, including thoughts, memories, perceptions and emotions. To this end, mental states and thought processes are physical.”

Nayef Al-Rodhan

Source: Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man (2009), p.109

Knowledge , Memory

“All knowledge is acquired through the application of reason and has a physical basis.”

Nayef Al-Rodhan

Source: Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man (2009), p.28

Knowledge

“Indeed, collective triumph will also depend both on the application of reason and the recognition that a great deal of knowledge is indeterminate and may be temporally, spatially and perhaps culturally constrained.”

Nayef Al-Rodhan

Source: Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man (2009), p.437

Knowledge , Dependency

“Almost every golden age of geo-cultural domains has been characterised by good governance, exchanges, borrowing, innovation and the adaptation of earlier contributions to forms of knowledge, and rationalism.”

Nayef Al-Rodhan

Source: Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man (2009), p.171

Age , Knowledge

“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