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domingo, 15 de noviembre de 2015

GOOGLE SCHOLAR




GOOGLE SCHOLAR
***Balthasar Gracian es el panfletario de Google el cual publica sus Aforismos, donde el maestro nos enseña sobre la vida y la cultura. Muy parecido a Azorín - cuyo amor por España es infinito y poderoso.
***Google, es decir el cerebro de los hombres, tiene su Google Scholar, el cual traigo a mi mesa para presentarlo como la contribución de Google a los seres humanos. Porque "cuando veas las barbas de tu vecino, arder, pon las tuyas en remojo", dejó de ser la solución, cuando tenemos Google. Ejemplo: el caso de Finlandia y el caso de las escuelas en Greater Miami, donde con el esfuerzo de encomiables  maestros, los niños, los jovenes, los adultos, han avanzado en la cultura; si, la pedagogía, el estudio - tan necesarios en estos tiempos...No; no hay tiempos mejores...y la enseñanza de antes no era mejor que la enseñanza de hoy...aunque resulte un perogrullo,hay quienes justifican el mayordomaje de los flojos, con la frase anterior. No es un asunto de comparaciones, de vecinos asustados, cuando el pandemonio de la vida los acosa, los sonsaca y los estresa o mejor dicho los persigue y los destruye. Lo digo porque el hombre bueno y común, apela a estos proverbios chinos cuando hoy tiene a Google Scholar, quien sentado en una mesa, desmenuza los misterios de Apple y nos conduce a la gloria.
***En youtube encuentra usted el Scholar de Google. Búsquelo y estúdielo hasta mas no poder para que salve sus barbas de la candela.
***Paris se quema...se quema París... y el presidente Hollande es el responsable por ser el presidente de Francia, nada mas y nada menos que un hermoso y gigantesco País, cuna de Rabelais, la Revolución Francesa. La Comuna de Paris, la casa de Albert Camus, la cuna del Positivismo y de Montesquieu, las raíces de la Libertad, Fraternidad e
Igualdad entre los seres humanos. Donde la Religión, el Arte, la Cultura, y la Ciencia, son lugar común, si se puede decir de esa manera.
***Escribo, temblando, estupefacto al no querer creer lo que estamos viendo: franceses y el mundo en estampida porque los Dioses estan Cansados. Sí; cansancio que deriva de su propia naturaleza, de la intimidad del Ser, de la inmortalidad de ser Dios y no poder evitar que se queme Paris...
***No fue casualidad mi artículo sobre Carnet du bal, y el cine francés. Francia ha respondido a las exigencias del mundo globalizado, con todos sus hierros. Si un país ha hecho algo por los demás, ese país es Francia y por eso pertenece al grupo de los 7.
***No me vaya usted a decir que no sabe lo que es el Grupo de los 7. Empezando por Italia, el primer país Capitalista de Europa. Traigo a un Scholar, Charles Malik para que me represente y hable por mí. Traigo la Civilización Occidental - para que tambien, hable por mí. Traigo a Testut-Latarjet y a Rouviere, para que hablen por,mí...traigo a Gargantua y Pantagruel para que Rabelais y Pascal y Voltaire, hablen por mí...los Enciclopedistas franceses como nos enseñan en las escuelas...
***Acostumbrados como parecemos ante la flaqueza de la vida, contamos con Joseph Conrad, quien dijo: We live, as we dream - alone. Se vistió de gala y se embarcó en un Vapor hacia Nueva York. Sus fotografías, sus pines andan por allí, haciendo temblar la tierra.
***Lo había advertido Camus y la Filosofía Existencial y estaba mas que explicado en el acontecer del día a día. Morir en Madrid, casualmente nos retrae a la Guerra Civil española, a Picasso, a
Montmartre, a Paris y Barcelona, a Londres, Berlin y Roma,,,Como busquemos nos encontramos con un Marco Polo. Mas, quien enseña al educando, quien en Finlandia, o Escandinavia se ocupa de los detalles de la educación, tan magistralmente repartida?
***Claro, el ser humano como especie no es una improvisación ni puede salir con excusas de sus debilidades inherentes a su naturaleza, a su evolución, a sus flaquezas, de pez al libre albedrío como si las aguas le fueran extrañas; en otras palabras, haciendose el sorprendido, hoy, precisamente usando los medios de comunicación - cuando cuenta con Google Scholar, si espera comprender porqué se quema París.
***Vayamos un momento a la Conferencia de Premios Nobeles, cuando se descubrió y se premió el boson de Higgs-Englert. Ambos científicos alrededor de la mesa se afanaban en contestar las preguntas, cuando una joven portuguesa se quejaba de la necesidad de trasladarse a los países desarrollados del norte de Europa para aspirar a aprender...
***Los Dioses estan Cansados y Francia lo dijo primero: Les Dieux sont Fatigue o mejor dicho Los Heroes estan Cansados...Cansados de ser Dioses y de ser Heroes. Necesitamos hombres y mujeres de carne y hueso, una Filosofía de carne y hueso como clamaba Leopoldo Zea en sus libros de Filosofía.
***Pensadores como Simón Bolívar le pedía a la Europa en 1815 que ayudara a transigir con España. Que se involucrara en el inmenso y difícil asunto de América. Que le importara ocuparse por ejemplo de la heroica y desdichada Venezuela, condenada al libre albedrío de la conquista y la colonización española. No podía Andres Eloy Blanco escribir Canto a España, por un Premio. Lo advirtió Cortazar y fue mas allá Ruben Darío.
***Exactamente por cantar a la España Ultramarina, está Venezuela hoy, encadenada al comunismo bananero. Es que acaso los Drones estan Cansados, también? Puede mas la decrepitud de una Revolución cubana que la grandeza de Simón Bolívar y una tierra hermosa y rica como la describe el mismo Libertador en La Carta de Jamaica. Un Manifesto, sin duda, en espera de sus hijos?
Carlos E Mijares, Caracas 15 de noviembre 2015
— en Venezuela.
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jueves, 5 de noviembre de 2015

DR. CHARLES MALIK - presented with Great Honor!



 DR. Charles Malik
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Dr. Charles Habib Malik (1906 - 1987) (Arabic: شارل مالك) was a Lebanese Eastern Orthodox Christian philosopher and diplomat.

 Born in Bterram, Lebanon, Malik was the son of Dr. Habib Malik and Zarifa Karam. He was educated at the American Mission School for Boys in Tripoli and the American University of Beirut, where he graduated with a degree in mathematics and physics.
 He moved on to Cairo in 1929, where he developed an interest in philosophy, which he proceeded to study at Harvard (under Alfred North Whitehead) and in Freiberg, Germany (under Martin Heidegger in 1932. His stay in Germany, however, was short-lived. He found the policies of the Nazis unfavorable, and left soon after they came to power in 1933. In 1937, he received his Ph.D. in philosophy (based on the metaphysics in the philosophies of Whitehead and Heidegger) from Harvard University. He taught there as well as at other universities in the United States.
 After returning to Lebanon, Malik founded the Philosophy department at the American University, as well as a cultural studies program. He remained in this capacity until 1945 when he was appointed to be the Lebanese ambassador to the United States and the United Nations.
 Malik represented Lebanon at the San Francisco conference at which the United Nations was founded. He served as a rapporteur for the Commission on Human Rights in 1947 and 1948, when he became President of the Economic and Social Council. The same year, he helped to draft the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. He remained as ambassador to the US and UN until 1955. He was an outspoken participant in debates in the United Nations General Assembly and often criticized the Soviet Union. After a three-year absence, he returned in 1958 to preside over the thirteenth session of the United Nations General Assembly.
 Meanwhile, Malik had been appointed to the Lebanese Cabinet. He was Minister of National Education and Fine Arts in 1956 and 1957, and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1956 to 1958. While a Minister, he was elected to the National Assembly in 1957, and served there for three years.
 Malik returned to his academic career in 1960. He travelled extensively, lectured on human rights and other subjects, and held professorships at a number of American universities including Harvard, the American University in Washington, DC, Dartmouth College (New Hampshire), University of Notre Dame (Indiana). In 1981, he was also a Pascal Lecturer at the University of Waterloo in Canada. His last official post was with The Catholic University of America (Washington, DC), where he served as a Jacques Maritain Distinguished Professor of Moral and Political Philosophy from 1981 to 1983. Meanwhile, he had also returned to his old chair in Philosophy at the American University of Beirut (1962 to 1976).
 Following the outbreak of the Lebanese Civil War, which raged from 1975 to 1990, Malik helped to found the Front for Freedom and Man in Lebanon, to defend the Christian cause. It was later renamed the Lebanese Front, who included Phalangist Party founder Pierre Gemayel and former President and National Liberal Party leader Camille Chamoun.
 Malik was also noted as a theologian who successfully reached across confessional lines, appealing to his fellow Eastern Orthodox Christians, Roman Catholics, and Evangelicals alike. The author of numerous commentaries on the Bible and on the writings of the early Church Fathers, Malik was one of the few Orthodox theologians of his time to be widely known in Evangelical circles, and the evangelical leader Bill Bright spoke well of him and quoted him. Partly owing to Malik's ecumenical appeal, as well as to his academic credentials, he served as President of the World Council on Christian Education from 1967 to 1971, and as Vice-President of the United Bible Societies from 1966 to 1972.
 Malik died of cancer in Beirut on 28 December 1987. His son, Habib Malik, is a prominent academic and human rights activist. He was also survived by his brother, the late Father Ramzi Habib Malik, a prominent Catholic priest.

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 Charles Malik played a vital role in shaping the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights, Malik's fellow delegates credited him as the driving force behind the document’s arrangement. He was commended by U.S. State Department aids to Eleanor Roosevelt for being jointly responsible, along with Mrs. Roosevelt, for the document’s adoption.
 A strong advocate of the "natural law" approach to defining human rights, Malik believed the UDHR to be more than a document of morally persuasive worth. Like many other representatives on the Commission he understood that the Declaration would be immediately followed by a specific, legally binding treaty.
 Still, he was hesitant to regard the Declaration as simply a proclamation of human rights. He believed it to be far more significant than that. In Paris, upon adoption of the Declaration, Malik said that, Whoever values man and his individual freedom above everything else cannot fail to find in the present Declaration a potent ideological weapon. If wielded in complete goodwill, sincerity, and truth, this weapon can prove most significant in the history of the spirit.
 Malik’s role in safeguarding international human rights was not confined to his position as Rapporteur within the Commission. He was also President of the Economic and Social Council and Chairman of the Third Committee in 1948 while the UDHR was being deliberated. Upon Eleanor Roosevelt’s retirement as Chair of the Commission on Human Rights in 1951, Charles Malik was chosen as her successor.
 
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Articles , Works And Books  by: Dr. Charles Malik
 
(1949) "The Challenge of Human Rights", Behind the Headlines (vol. 9, no. 6, Toronto)

(1949) War and Peace (Stamford, CT: Overbrook Press)

(1950) "The Challenge of Communism", Chicago Council on Foreign Relations

(1951) The Problem of Asia (Stamford, CN: Overbrook Press)

(1955) The Problem of Coexistence (Evanston, IL: Northwestern Uni-versity Press)

(1958) "Introduction", in Philip W. Thayer (ed.), Tensions in the Middle East (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press)

(1960) Will the Future Redeem the Past? Address delivered at
eighteenth-century capitol, Williamsburg, Virginia, 11 June 1960

(1960) "The Legacy of Imperialism" (article written with Barbara Ward, Thomas P. Whitney and Robert Strrrausz-Hupe) (Chatham College, NA)

(1962) Christ and Crisis (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company)

(1962) Selection in John N. Brooks (ed.) The One and the Many: The Individual in the Modern World (New York: Harper & Row)

(1962) (with Eugene Carson Blake, Andrew Cordier, John Karefa-Smart, Lin Yutang, Henry Margenau, and Robert Wilson) Christian Perspectives in Contemporary Culture: The Proceedings of the Hanover College Institute, 8-11 March 1960 (Twayne Publishers)

(1963) Man in the Struggle for Peace (New York: Harper & Row)

(1965) Contributor to John Courtney Murray (ed.) Freedom and Man (Kenedy)

(1967) (ed.) God and Man in Contemporary Islamic Thought (Beirut: American University of Beirut)

(1968) Selection in O. Frederick Nolde, Free and Equal: Human
Rights in Ecumenical Perspective (Geneva: World Council of Churches)

(1970) God and Man in Contemporary Christian Thought (Beirut:
American University of Beirut Centennial Publications)

(1972) Survival in an Age of Revolution (Atlanta, GA: Coca-Cola Company)

(1973) Sharl Malik wa-al-qadiyah al-Filastiniyah (Beirut: Mu"assasat
A. Badran)

(1974) The Wonder of Being (Waco: Word Books)

(1974) Lubnan fi dhatihi (Beirut: Mu"assasat A. Badran)

(1977) Almuqaddimah

(1981) A Christian Critique of the University (lntervarsity Press)

(1998) Charles Malik: Dowr Lubnan fi Sana' al-I"lanal-"Alami li-Haquq al-Insan (Beirut: Nowfal)