Iran
Daily: Iranian philosophy professor Karim Mojtahedi has been awarded at UNESCO
Avicenna Gold Medal at the 4th International Farabi Festival.
According
to Fars News Agency, the scholar was awarded as a veteran in humanities. He was
also presented plaque of honor by Iran’s Cultural Luminaries Association.
Mojtahedi
is the fourth Iranian scholar who has received the honor after Fatollah
Mojtabai, Ali Shariatmadari and Seyyed Jafar Sajjadi.
Karim
Mojtahedi is a Tehran University professor. He has so far published over 20
books on philosophy.
His
latest book ‘Hegel’s Thoughts’ will soon be released by Humanities and Cultural
Studies Research Center.
The
philosopher is to deliver a lecture in French at the World Philosophy Day
Congress in Tehran.
The
congress will be held from November 21 to 23 on the occasion of World
Philosophy Day which will be celebrated on November 18, 2010 worldwide. It is
sponsored by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization (UNESCO).
To
mark the 1,000th birth anniversary of the most influential of Islam’s
philosopher-scientists, UNESCO minted commemorative Avicenna Medal in 1980.
At
the initiative of the Islamic Republic of Iran, UNESCO established the Avicenna
Prize for Ethics in Science in 2002.
Source:
IBNA News Agency