The Trinity College Dublin of the University of Dublin in Ireland has invited Sandew Hira to give a talk about his book on Decolonizing The Mind (DTM). DTM is based on two concepts: mental slavery and civilization.
Currently we are experiencing the end of a colonial world civilization that has dominated the world for 500 years. A civilization is a collection of societies with a common cultural foundation and with economic, political, social and cultural institutions based on that foundation. The last 350 fifty years the cultural foundation of the colonial world civilization has been the European Enlightenment. It produced the Eurocentric knowledge that is being taught in all Westernized universities in the world.
DTM offers a fundamental critique of the European Enlightenment: its view on world history, its epistemology, its economic, social, cultural and political theories and its foundation of the hard sciences: mathematics, physics and biology.
The critique is not enough. DTM argues that we need to move from the critique to the alternative: the construction of a new world civilization founded on a new knowledge base. The development of an alternative knowledge base is done on the level of the disciplines. It draws from contributions from old civilizations and use creativity to add something new. But the ultimate aim is to create a knowledge base that helps humanity to build a world of social justice, prosperity, peace, harmony, love and freedom.