Ramin Jahanbegloo

Biography:
Ramin Jahanbegloo is a well-known Iranian-Canadian philosopher.He is presently a Professor of Political Science and a Research Fellow in the Centre for Ethics at University of Toronto. Among his twenty books in English, French and Persian are Conversations with Isaiah Berlin ( 1992), Gandhi: Aux Sources de la Nonviolence ( 1999),The Clash of Intolerances ( 2007) and very recently The Spirit of India ( 2008), Beyond Violence ( 2008)

Abstract:
Can Science be Nonviolent?

Albert Einstein used to say that science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. We can also add that: Science without democracy is arbitrary, as democracy without science is ignorant. The interface between democracy and science has always been a complex and problematic one which, to be properly understood, must be situated in relation with a third concept which is nonviolence. Viewed from this perspective, democratic theory continues to challenge scientists in particular and science in general to re-think and re-conceptualize the idea of science as a way of reducing violence in our world.