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‘Weltanschauung’ and dignity

A comprehensive worldview is one fundamental cognitive orientation of any individual or society encompassing the entirety of the individual’s, or society’s knowledge, and/or an individual’s point of view and for convictions in life. It is both positive and normative. It is for the here and now, and it is also for the afterlife. A world […]

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Democracy – ‘Melayu-style’?

The word ‘Malay’ is an English etymological word and not a ‘Melayu’ one. I do not think I am wrong; unless some linguist tells me so from the field of hermeneutics as to why. Therefore, my conclusive argument is that Malaya, and Malaysia, are both at root, English words; exactly as it is with the […]

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