Abdelaziz, Berghout (2025) Mechanisms of philosophical reasoning and their Importance in achieving quality of life. In: Philosophy and the Quality of Life : Riyadh International Philosophy Conference 2024, 2024, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
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This paper aims to analyze the role and importance of philosophical reasoning in directing and enhancing quality of life by offering proper awareness, methods, and philosophical thinking skills. These skills are an integral part of the philosophical mind, which seeks wisdom, sound judgment, and human welfare. The paper argues that quality of life, in its comprehensive and civilizational sense—which balances material and spiritual, intellectual and psychological, individual and collective, as well as innate and acquired needs—is a human necessity and an objective that must be pursued in both individual and societal realities. The quality of life discussed here is based on the principle of human value, dignity, and the vital role of humans as rational, thoughtful, and conscious stewards of the earth. Humans are tasked with advancing civilizational development, building a balanced, responsible society that provides the conditions for well-being, prosperity, tranquility, goodness, moral distinction, and material, spiritual, social, and cultural excellence for individuals and the human community, in all its diversity of cultures, peoples, civilizations, and shared values. The paper proposes the importance of organized and diligent efforts to build a far-sighted philosophical mind engaged in responsible philosophical reasoning. This requires promoting intellectual and philosophical education and enhancing skills such as reflection, contemplation, analysis, reasoning, dialogue, and creativity. These are key to sound thinking at all stages of educational and societal learning.
| Item Type: | Proceeding Paper (Plenary Papers) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Philosophical thinking, quality of life, mechanisms of thinking, philosophical education. |
| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BC Logic H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) |
| Kulliyyahs/Centres/Divisions/Institutes (Can select more than one option. Press CONTROL button): | International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization (ISTAC) |
| Depositing User: | Prof. Dr. Abdelaziz Berghout |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Jun 2025 17:22 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Jun 2025 17:22 |
| URI: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/id/eprint/121390 |
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