The Center Leo Apostel

invites everyone to the 46th of its interdisciplinary seminars in the
Foundations series. In this series CLEA invites scholars that are actively
engaged in the research on the foundations of a particular discipline. Their
lectures will always be directed to an interdisciplinary audience, and the
discussions aim at confronting the foundations of the different disciplines.




    "MU" AND THE CULTURAL ENCOUNTER BETWEEN EAST AND WEST
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                  by Prof. Dr Stacey B. Day
                      (MD, PhD, DSc)



Thursday, March 23 at 5 p.m. in Room 022 (building G, 1st Floor)
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Campus Oefenplein


About the lecture

The thrust of the concepts that I would like to discuss here are in that area
of scholarship that the Japanese call HUMAN SCIENCE. This paper is founded
on such issues as whether a valid distinction can be made between Mind and
Body, (What is Mind? What is Consciousness?). These problems I have
confronted in an effort to bring together the two poles of their identity -
West and East  - Occidental and Oriental (India and Japan). This involves of
course a struggle due to the fact that Western Culture in its history has
nearly exclusively been steeped in and informed by Christianity, and all the
great works of Western thought have been written from this quality of mind.
Eastern cultures, lesser known perhaps, are born of inner dialogue between
Man's Being and Nature, including his environment (Biologos). Here I would
wish to promote an East-West dialogue and expose my ideas on Biologos,
Biopsychosocial-Ecological-Existential Way of living, Parasympathetic and
Sympathetic Cultures and their potentials for Survival, Kansai and Chisei
(Japanese), as well as aspects of the rational and intuitive mind to your
critique. Educational dialogues on these issues, I would like to believe,
enhance understanding between Man and Man.


About the speaker

Professor S. B. Day, prior to his work with WHO, was Professor and Member
and Head, Medical Education and Communications, Sloan Kettering Institute
For Cancer Research, 1972-1979. He was a Member of the WHO Expert
Committees on Health, Manpower Development, and Strengthening Health
Care Resources. In 1982 he was the first Professor and Chairman of the Dept.
of Biopsychosocial and Community Medicine, University of Calabar Medical
School, Nigeria. Returning to the USA he set up the WHO Collaborating Center,
Nashville , Tennessee (1985-1990). Over the past decade he has been
Permanent Visiting Professor of Medical Education, Oita Medical University,
Kyushu, Japan. Biodata see Who's Who in American Education; Who's Who in
America.


The presentation with questions will last about an hour. Afterwards, an hour
or more is reserved for an in-depth, group discussion of the topic. More info
at the CLEA office: phone 02-644 26 77 or via the Web-page:
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