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El Mostafa Higazy is an Egyptian humanist, strategic thinker and institutional sustainable development guru. His magnum opus, Termini Context Thinking ‘TCT’ (2002), is considered a founding school of moral and sociopolitical/socioeconomic philosophy of the Wisdom Age of Humanity, yet to emerge. His work on philosophy, dubbed Humanistic Terminalism [Higazianism], postulates that the reality of anexistance is in fulfillment of its ‘raison d’etre’ or else it’s a unreal. Principles of Happiness, Freedom and Justice are related to in the same fashion in TCT.Higazy employs a number of thought experiments – including the ‘decoy’ aka ‘the veil of faking’ in order to determine from an impartial standpoint the reality of principles of Freedom and social Justice. He is one of the contemporary major thinkers in the tradition of ‘MAQSID’ in Abrahamic/IslamicPhilosphy and Humanistic Liberalism in Applied Political Philosophy.

Biography

Higazy belongs to a school of reinassance philosophers of encyclopedic nature. Their philosophies usually stem from study of fundamental sciences and further complements it. Higazy originates from the same provenance of Plato, Hypatia of Greek philosophy, Ibn Rushd ‘Averreos’, Ibn Khuldoon & Ibn Taymiyyah of Abrahamic/Islamic philosophy and finally Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John Sturart Mill, Karl Marx, Mahatma Gandhi, Vilfredo Pareto, John Rawls and most recenty Amartya Sen of Western Philosophy. He is more of the field of ‘Applied Philosphy’.

Career

After earning his Ph.D. from the University of Southern California, Higazy, held Academic Professorship positions in both University of Southern California, USA and Ain Shams University, Egypt. Higazy founded NASAQ Foundation for Strategic & Humanistic Thinking. NASAQ was first established as an advocacy Think-Tank, with the name SQUARE Institute for Strategic Thinking. It is dedicated to spearheading the establishment the Wisdom Age Paradigm since establishment. NASAQ focus is Humanizing Sustainable Development through fostering Humanism as manifested in developing models to de-industrialize the paradigm governing societal institutions. Higazy founded ACME Corp as the socioeconomic arm of practice through which sustainable developmental models pillared upon NASAQ philosophical and Strategic models are enlivened. ACME Corp is a Strategic Institutional Development and Investment Management Corporation. The ‘ACME Approach’ is the practical methodology in use. The ACME Corp is a holding entity for several strategic business units, prominent among which are ACME Advisors and ACME Investments.

Contribution to Sociopolitical, Socioeconomic & Moral Philosophy

Higazy is noted for his contribution to humanistic moral, socioeconomic & sociopolitical philosophy. Prominent ideas from Higazy’s work are:

• Termini Reality

• Eligibility Based Justice

• Comingling Balance of Societies

• A theory on Humanism / Departure from Industrialism/ Humanistic Liberalism

• Wisdom Age Paradigm ‘The ACME Paradigm’

• The ACME Strategy/ The V.A.N. Balance Approach

His work has focused on departure from industrialism and are founding thought for the wisdom age “conceptual age” yet to emerge.

References

{Dr. Higazy brings to bear 20 years of comprehensive experience in Sustainable Strategies Development, Strategic Advisory, Governance Advocacy, Investment Management, Organizational Psychology and Institutional Sustainable Development.http://www.ecgi.org/members_directory/member.php?member_id=1297}}

The sustainable reform and development of the human Supra-Institutions of ‘Thought’ and ‘Achievement’ http://www.thewcmp.org/img/downloads/pdf/3rd_Congress_Program0.pdf

Res. Assoc., Civ. Engrg. Dept., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-2531.http://aelnash.cee.illinois.edu/journal%20article%20PDFs/39%20Higazy,%20Agbabian.pdf

Professor El Mostafa Hegazy who first introduced me to the challenging science of earthquake engineering.http://dspace.library.drexel.edu/retrieve/58/el-dakh_thesis.pdf

Hegazy El- Mostafa, Corporate governance manual for familybusinesses “Egyptian junior business association”, Metro-pole,2006 http://www.scribd.com/doc/19934893/CG-Thesis-Final-After-Presentation

Founded as a strategic Advisory and Investment Management Corporation; ACME Corp is committed to creating and enforcing the strategic edge in the organizational mind-set of its institutional and individual clients http://www.acmestrategies.com

He established the TCT School of thought and the ACME Approach for sustainable development both catering for a unique methodology of Strategic Emergence, Development & Reform.http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/1957