An Important Speech Molding the Leadership of a Nation
Dr. Arega Nigussie (Walden Alumni Ambassador Network)
Educational Consultant | Curriculum, Instruction, Assessment
The Ethiopian PM speech on the induration of the important watermark library was monumental and tests the caliber of people that ride the power horse along with the leader. The guidance verbalized and the hopes it carries makes the moment distinguishable from many other. It is a road map that paves a new culture of enlightenment, self-evaluation a shift from bravado to practicality.
Long before Immanuel Kant (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kant/) many Ethiopian monks devoted their time to the existence of life and its mission on earth. However, our modern education ignored their contribution and the result is that we depend on the progress others made based on what they found from reading the minds of our monks. Most important is picking up the most important part that is useful to our people and refining and adjusting their findings to our situation. I had a chance to read the extract of our PM and appreciated the equilibrium he used to explain Immanuel Kant to the Ethiopian audience with many cultural touches. Kant’s work was published first published Thu May 20, 2010; Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) is the central figure in modern philosophy. He synthesized early modern rationalism and empiricism, set the terms for much of nineteenth and twentieth-century philosophy, and continues to exercise a significant influence today in metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, political philosophy, aesthetics, and other fields. The fundamental idea of Kant’s “critical philosophy” – especially in his three Critiques: the Critique of Pure Reason (1781, 1787), the Critique of Practical Reason (1788), and the Critique of the Power of Judgment (1790) – is human autonomy. He argues that the human understanding is the source of the general laws of nature that structure all our experience; and that human reason gives itself the moral law, which is our basis for belief in God, freedom, and immortality. Therefore, scientific knowledge, morality, and religious belief are mutually consistent and secure because they all rest on the same foundation of human autonomy, which is also the final end of nature according to the teleological worldview of reflecting a judgment that Kant introduces to unify the theoretical and practical parts of his philosophical system. The published?topics include ?Life and works, Kant’s project in the Critique of Pure Reason, The crisis of the Enlightenment, ?Kant’s Copernican revolution in philosophy, Transcendental idealism, ?The two-objects interpretation, ?The two-aspects interpretation, ?The transcendental deduction, ?Self-consciousness, ?Objectivity, and judgment, ?The law-giver of nature, ?Morality and freed, ?Theoretical and practical autonomy, Freedom, The fact of reason, The categorical imperative, The highest good, and practical postulates, ?The highest g, The postulates of pure practical reason, The unity of nature and freedom, The great chasm and?The purposiveness of nature.
We are fortunate to have a leader who not only reads but understands, synthesizes the content, puts it into practice, and influences others to follow. My question is, how many of our leaders on the helm and educated Ethiopians follow his example? What is the interpretation of our morale molders' concurrence or difference with Kant's philosophical value or teaching, and how? Answering the question proves that the leadership is well aligned with the leader, or it proves that the leader's work is an empty bravado. We all need to strive to equate the call's or the bravado will turn into a flood that erodes our trust with the people—a moment of importance.