Indeed, philosophy tries to uncover the concealed causes behind the crises

of the present, and to show the extent of their impact on the potentials of

creators in all disciplines, and how to get rid of them. It is true that we do

not live in a country that is currently in crisis, as the movement of building

life and people in the UAE is moving at a steady pace, but we are part of

the world, and an active part in it. We influence it and we are affected by

it, and for this it is very necessary to put in the hands of our young people

the deepest knowledge of what is happening in this world, not only to

contribute to the protection of our homeland from any negative effects

of the world›s problems, but also to continuously contribute creatively

to building the future. We are a people who create tomorrow based on

moral values, scientific ambitions, faith in the capabilities of our youth,

their determination, their awareness, and their culture. We are a country

that links all the aspirations of its youth to tomorrow, and provides them

with preparation, planning and implementation.

Interest in the concept of recognition is not old, though it has been addressed in one form or another

by many philosophers and has, in contemporary philosophy, occupied a status that reached the point

of talking about the philosophy of recognition. We propose the concept of recognition as an axis

because recognition is a theoretical and practical problem at the same time; rather, it is a practical

problem that we try to conceptualize and present a philosophical discourse on. Human relationships

cannot be imagined without states of recognition that also generate states of non-recognition. What

compels a person or a group to recognize and remove recognition? This means—in answer to this

question—we must examine the status of recognition in the world of values, the world of interests, and

the world of ideological and political affiliations. The concepts of fanaticism, racism, selfishness, envy,

and negation are present in human life as negations of recognition. This brings us to those values that

create a culture of recognition, which can only triumph by recognizing the right to difference because

the most significant problem is that of accepting or rejecting the different. Acceptance of the right to

difference means recognition, and its denial only means that the other is no longer recognized, which

is why many human conflicts are based on non-recognition. This is evident in the fact that ideological

justifications of interests hide behind a discourse that validates the negation of the other, especially

if the ideology held by a group of people involves the idea of possessing absolute truth and negating

other truths. In this sense, recognition is not based on illusion; rather it is illusion that is the source of

negation and non-recognition.

In our contemporary world, and especially in our Arab world, recognition is teetering under the blows

of all forms of various negations, which is why we have chosen the concept of recognition as the main

focus of our issue.

:In Hippias’s dialogue with Plato, Socrates is quoted as saying

But, Hippias, what precisely is the reason why those men of old, whose names are a byword

for wisdom – Pittacus and Bias, and the associates of Thales of Miletus, and those who

came later, down to Anaxagoras – all of them, or most of them, apparently refrained from

?public activity

:Hippias replies

Why do you think, Socrates? Weren’t they just lacking in ability, and the competence to

?reach an understanding of both the public and private spheres

Nevertheless, since philosophers live in the midst of the being of humanity, they have no

choice but confronting life’s problems and meeting life’s needs, the problems of people,

all people: the poor and the rich, the old, the young and the child, the good and the bad,

the submissive and the rebellious, the sad and the joyful, the homeless, the refugee and

the orphan, and the bereaved, the hungry and the cold, the lover and the unemployed,

the victims of slavery and the oppressed, the longing, the yearning, the haters, the lovers,

the criminal, the influential, the weak, the strong, the aspiring, the contented, the noble,

the lowly, the oppressive, the oppressed, the pessimist, the optimist, the indifferent, the

alienated, the objectifying, the foolish, the absurd, the generous, the stingy, the fighter, the

opportunist, the ignorant, the scholar, the racist, the tolerant, the pretender, the liar, the

truthful, the deceitful, the ordinary, the familiar, the astonishing, and the contemplative

All of these are the true sources of the great questions of philosophy related to being

With the philosophy of values, life, death and destiny. Yes, philosophy arose from thinking

about the problems of people’s daily lives, from the never-ending historical determinants

.of human existence