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Abdolkarim Soroush
Iranian
Philosopher
Born:
Dec 16
,
1945
Become
Islam
Just
People
Religion
Will
Related authors:
Albert Camus
Aristotle
Confucius
Friedrich Nietzsche
Lao Tzu
Plato
Socrates
Sun Tzu
People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.
Abdolkarim Soroush
Needs
Basic Needs
People
First
Meeting
Only
Pursue
Higher
Concern
Any
Afterwards
Themselves
Basic
In many of the things that people do, they themselves are the centre of attention, but they inscribe some other name on their banner.
Abdolkarim Soroush
People
Other
Some
Attention
Name
Banner
Centre
Themselves
Many
Things
Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.
Abdolkarim Soroush
Truth
Islam
Difficult
Religious
Between
Most
Identity
Equilibrium
Intellectuals
Tasks
Establishing
In order for answers to become clear, the questions have to be clear.
Abdolkarim Soroush
Become
Clear
Answers
Questions
Order
If a group of people feels that it has been humiliated and that its honour has been trampled underfoot, it will want to express its identity and this expression of an identity will take different shapes and forms.
Abdolkarim Soroush
People
Will
Group
Humiliated
Honour
Has-Been
Take
Shapes
Feels
Underfoot
Identity
Been
Trampled
Different
Want
Forms
Different Shapes
Express
Expression
There are all sorts of cries that the leaders of the Green Movement should submit themselves to the supreme leader, but that won't take place. Both sides have to be prepared for a serious negotiation.
Abdolkarim Soroush
Leader
Submit
Cries
Sides
Negotiation
Be Prepared
Both
Both Sides
Take
Leaders
Supreme
Sort
Green
Movement
Place
Themselves
Should
Prepared
Serious
Islam, or any religion, will become totalitarian if it is made into an ideology, because that is the nature of ideologies.
Abdolkarim Soroush
Nature
Religion
Will
Made
Ideology
Islam
Become
Totalitarian
Ideologies
Because
Any
Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere.
Abdolkarim Soroush
Energy
Has-Been
Physicists
Observable
Concept
Known
Been
Anywhere
Thing
We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what components they consist of. We must tackle small problems.
Abdolkarim Soroush
Problems
Down
Define
Consist
Bits
Must
Components
Tackle
Small
Concepts
Break
Explain
Use
Compromise has a negative connotation.
Abdolkarim Soroush
Negative
Compromise
Connotation
The clergy earns its living from religion. If your interests are secured through religion, then you will defend your interests first, and religion will become secondary.
Abdolkarim Soroush
Religion
You
Will
First
Become
Living
Secondary
Secured
Through
Clergy
Then
Interests
Your
Defend
Human beings can remain spiritual and religious while enjoying the benefits of rational administration of their affairs.
Abdolkarim Soroush
Spiritual
Benefits
Administration
Religious
Rational
Remain
Affairs
Human
Human Beings
While
Beings
Enjoying
A realistic view of humanity will stop the proliferation of impossible injunctions.
Abdolkarim Soroush
Humanity
Impossible
Will
Realistic
Proliferation
Stop
View
It is impossible to advance new theories... when you are under the influence of a particular view, or under the pressure of a particular dogma.
Abdolkarim Soroush
You
Impossible
Pressure
Advance
New
Particular
Dogma
Influence
View
Theories
That President Mohammad Khatami's policies have been blocked is the bitterest incident in the contemporary Iranian history. This means that the wishes of millions of people who voted for Khatami and called for freedom and justice have been ignored... Why should cultural activities and journalism be so risky in Iran?
Abdolkarim Soroush
Freedom
History
Justice
People
President
Bitterest
Risky
Journalism
Voted
Wishes
Contemporary
Policies
Blocked
Been
Cultural
Iran
Iranian
Should
Means
Ignored
Who
Incident
Activities
Why
Millions
Millions Of People
We no longer claim that a genuinely religious government can be democratic, but that it cannot be otherwise.
Abdolkarim Soroush
Government
Otherwise
Claim
Religious
Longer
Democratic
Genuinely
Cannot
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