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World Philosophy Day

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“The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) are a specialized agency of the United Nations system established in 1946. The Organizations main objective is to contribute to peace and security by promoting collaboration among the nations through education, science and culture in order to further universal respect for justice, for the rule of law and for the human rights and fundamental freedoms.” (1)

UNESCO highly promote the practice of philosophy, the utilization of critical thinking and liberty of expression in which it state that philosophy has a great value in the development of the human being thought for every culture and each individual. The institution believes that by practicing philosophy, it …show more content…

The standards underlying the organization's constitution are derived from the fountainhead of philosophical heritage. And from the time it was established, the UNESCO has had resort to philosophy in placing them into force and effect. Accordingly, the organization strived to widely broadcast, utilize and to even spread an international philosophical culture in order to strengthen respect and honor for the human being, worshiping peace, despising narrow nationalisme and the principle of force and also the devotion and love to a perfect and idealistic culture. And from that point, UNESCO is now celebrating the World Philosophy Day each year to highlight the significance and importance of philosophy in every individual's daily life.

Perhaps what UNESCO is trying to do, is to prove how practicing philosophy could lead to a better and more pleasing personal and civil life. And we can see the impact of philosophy on people’s lives, in which philosophy has the unquestionable capability for transfusing critical thinking, renewal of thoughts and ideas and creativity. The crucial role that philosophic thought has played around the centuries, crossing every culture of the world proves and bear witness to its importance. With philosophy, the world society has become more attached, more linked and more …show more content…

Moreover, it is believed that by practicing philosophy it will help in encouraging evaluative and autonomous thoughts and ideas and also the capability of acting towards a better and wiser understanding of the world and boosting peace. So it is fair to say that UNESCO has a strong goal, in which it's working towards the teaching and educating the philosophy in the world.

Within the model of World Philosophy Day 2010, UNESCO has launched the publication “Arab-Muslim Civilization in the Mirror of the Universal: Philosophical Perspectives." (3) The publication has a collection of 34 referenced and analytic worksheets that have been made to be used in education, civil society and the media; acts as a relative approach where as teachers and philosophers analyze, within other topics, for example, the philosophy of religion, the philosophy of history.

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