Islamic suicide and the open horizon of human rights

The article is about the way knowledge is shared among different points of view. Today the sharing of knowledge underscores one of the most controversial and critical issues in scientific research by posing the question of how very different versions of the same social or cultural facts can co-exist. This issue concerns not only scholars and research workers, but involves many citizens too, since the co-existence of different points of view is also changing our increasingly global society where different cultures, traditions and values co-exist. From an epistemological point of view, the relationship between different types of knowledge also implies the type of relation that is present between the individual “knowledge of the facts” and the “facts” themselves. Our relationship with reality changes radically according to how we imagine this relation to be. Indeed, I shall try to show that our implicit epistemologies do not solely concern scientists and research workers but all free citizens because in today’s global world the way we conjugate the representation of reality with reality makes a difference in whether it is possible to have a democratic co-existence.