Posted by Jost on August 9, 2006, at 4:01:14
In reply to Re: people in Rowanda... Dinah, Gabbi-G, Phillipa, posted by Estella on August 8, 2006, at 23:56:31
The author of the article I cited, Amartya Sen, is of Indian descent and was educated in India. He doesn't write or think simply within the intellectual framework of Western Civilization.
A few lines from a short autobiography he wrote on receiving the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1998:
"My family is from Dhaka - now the capital of Bangladesh. My ancestral home in Wari in "old Dhaka" is not far from the University campus in Ramna. My father Ashutosh Sen taught chemistry at Dhaka University. I was, however, born in Santiniketan, on the campus of Rabindranath Tagore's Visva-Bharati (both a school and a college), where my maternal grandfather (Kshiti Mohan Sen) used to teach Sanskrit as well as ancient and medieval Indian culture, and where my mother (Amita Sen), like me later, had been a student. After Santiniketan, I studied at Presidency College in Calcutta and then at Trinity College in Cambridge, and I have taught at universities in both these cities, and also at Delhi University, the London School of Economics, Oxford University, and Harvard University, and on a visiting basis, at M.I.T., Stanford, Berkeley, and Cornell. I have not had any serious non-academic job."Therefore, onc can't identify the values expressed in that article to a purely Western view of the world.
Jost
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