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About Nayef Al-Rodhan
Nayef R.F. Al-Rodhan (born 1959) is a Saudi philosopher, neuroscientist and geostrategist. He is an Honorary Fellow of St. Antonyβs College at Oxford University and Centre Director, Centre for the Geopolitics of Globalization and Transnational Security and Senior Fellow, Emerging Security Challenges Programme, Geneva Centre for Security Policy.
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βAll knowledge is to some extent interpreted.β
βHumankind is an insignificant part of existence.β
βDignity is central to the sustainability of history.β
βThe history of human civilisation is a history of mutual borrowings.β
βOne of the key ingredients of coexistence and successful cooperation is trust.β
βWe should aim for peaceful coexistence at least and transcultural synergy at best.β
βAll knowledge is acquired through the application of reason and has a physical basis.β
βThere is only one collective human civilisation comprised of geo-cultural domains and cultures.β
βA set of global values in keeping with human nature and dignity need to be identified and developed.β
βWe are neither radically free to choose our nature nor entirely determined by our biological heritage.β
βCivilisational triumph is thus not a zero-sum enterprise that favours one geo-cultural domain over another.β
βMuch like addictive drugs, power uses ready-made reward circuitries in the brain, producing extreme pleasure.β
βMorality, if present, should not be relied on because it will be trumped by self interest in most circumstances.β
βPolicies should take account of the emotional dimensions of human behaviour rather than assuming rational action.β
βThe notion of innate knowledge (including moral knowledge) is rejected, but that of moral sensitivities is accepted.β
βMuch of what we often consider knowledge is actually a point of view held without sufficient grounds: in a word, dogma.β
βInstitutions should focus on educating against clashes of culture and the promotion of a culture of tolerance and peace.β
βWhat makes our existence meaningful is highly subjective and ultimately determined by sustainable neurochemical gratification.β
βKnowledge about things beyond our immediate environment may be acquired through deduction, if the initial premises are believed to be correct.β
βConsiderations of justice are also integral to efforts to generate transcultural security in the first instance and, ultimately, transcultural synergy.β
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Nayef Al-Rodhan on Human behavior 2 quotes
βPolicies should take account of the emotional dimensions of human behaviour rather than assuming rational action.β
Nayef Al-Rodhan on Human nature
βHuman nature is governed by general self-interest and affected by genetic predisposition, which implies that there are likely to be limits to our moral sensitivities.β
About Nayef Al-Rodhan
Nayef R.F. Al-Rodhan (born 1959) is a Saudi philosopher, neuroscientist and geostrategist. He is an Honorary Fellow of St. Antonyβs College at Oxford University and Centre Director, Centre for the Geopolitics of Globalization and Transnational Security and Senior Fellow, Emerging Security Challenges Programme, Geneva Centre for Security Policy.