meskipun makalah di bawah in ditulis dengan visi seorang penulis Muslim, saya melihat isinya bisa menjadi interest bersama di dalam memperdebatkan masyarakat 'masa-depan'.
di dalam sejarah manusia, peradaban mulai terbentuk sejak terciptanya 'kota' (urban) => masyarakat kota (madinah -> and hence the use of 'masyarakat madani' and civil-society term). Di dalam paper di bawah ini Parvez Mansoor mengkritik Al-Faraby, di mana konsepnya mengenai 'negeri bahagia' terlalu terasa warna "utopi" (hanya ada di dalam angan- angan yang abstrak); mungkin tdk jauh berbeda dari utopi konsep Republiknya Plato. Sebagai pembanding Parvez mengetengahkan nama Ibn Khaldun, Sosiolog Muslim yang mengetengahkan konsep sosiologi masyarkat kota yang lebih 'realistis'/ membumi, lebih relevan dengan pengalaman empiris. apakah perkembangan sejarah di masa depan akan menjumpai munculnya masyarakat 'pasca-kota' /post-city, dan sehingga masyarakat pasca-madani, / post-civil society. I found the short paper written by Mr. Parvez Manzoor below is very thought provoking. Here I can only give you the URL/link and the abstract of his paper. Selamat membacanya secara kritis, ==================================( ihm )===== <http://www.algonet.se/~pmanzoor/Beyond-City.htm> ----------------------------- Beyond City and Civilization ----------------------------- The acute moral and practical problems of our increasingly globalised human community have rendered the metaphor of the City as ideal social order both obsolescent and perilous. Mankind today is forced to gaze beyond its earlier, tribal and divisive, insights about the idea of civilization towards a trans-urban, trans-national, trans-communal future. All historical traditions thus are under pressure to highlight the universalist in their legacies at the cost of the parochial. For Muslims too, the new situation imposes its own ambivalent logic. If it compels them to assert their political will in a strongly hegemonised world, it also summons them to revise their traditional modes of perceiving themselves and the world around them. The post-civilizational vision of Islam must now be delineated as the pursuit of a universal moral order that truly transcends the jingoism of the city, tribalism of the nation-state and sectarianism of the religious community, pleads S Parvez Manzoor ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Does he tell you he loves you when he's hitting you? Abuse. Narrated by Halle Berry. http://us.click.yahoo.com/aFQ_rC/isnJAA/E2hLAA/BRUplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> *************************************************************************** Berdikusi dg Santun & Elegan, dg Semangat Persahabatan. Menuju Indonesia yg Lebih Baik, in Commonality & Shared Destiny. www.ppi-india.org *************************************************************************** __________________________________________________________________________ Mohon Perhatian: 1. Harap tdk. memposting/reply yg menyinggung SARA (kecuali sbg otokritik) 2. Pesan yg akan direply harap dihapus, kecuali yg akan dikomentari. 3. Lihat arsip sebelumnya, www.ppi-india.da.ru; 4. Satu email perhari: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5. No-email/web only: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6. kembali menerima email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ppiindia/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
