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In his attempt to investigate how communication, understanding and interpretation develop, Donald Davidson appeals to the so-called “principle of charity” anduses it across ... Read More

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Afdal al-Dīn Kāshānī\'s Philosophy: An Innovative Project within the Islamic-Persian Philosophy

Seyed Mustafā Shahrā'eenī Shahrā'eenī

Volume 9, Issue 1 , September 2011, , Pages 87-108

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Afdal al-Dīn Kāshānī (Bābā Afdal) lived and thought in times in which philosophy was in a precarious state due to Gazāllī's well-known criticisms. The former thought that this ... Read More

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On the Notorious History of the Problem of Primacy of

Homa Ranjbar; Davood Hosseini

Volume 17, Issue 1 , September 2019, , Pages 105-120

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Within the contemporary literature, there is a common ground about the history of the problem of primacy of existence. According to this notorious story, the prominent roles are those ... Read More

Intrinsic Value: Towards A Pragmatic Theory

Volume 7, Issue 2 , December 2009, , Pages 107-123

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Intrinsic value is a concept central to the environmentalist movement. Whether one believes that natural objects have intrinsic value is supposed to determine whether one takes a ecocentric ... Read More

Levels, Elements and Functions of the Hermeneutic Circle

Asghar Vaezi; Esmail Ghaedi

Volume 12, Issue 2 , March 2015, , Pages 107-125

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The hermeneutic circle articulated by different hermeneuticans in various versions is one of the basic problems in modern hermeneutics. Romanic hermeneutics introduced the circle as ... Read More

Origin of Art in Mullsadra’s Point of View

h hashm

Volume 14, Issue 1 , May 2016, , Pages 109-126

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Mullasadra discussed about the origin of art and aesthetic creation more than any other mulism Philosphers. For him human as the caliph of god, presenting the art to humans in ... Read More

Freedom and Human Dignity

Gholamhossein Ebrahimi Dinani

Volume 7, Issue 1 , April 2009, , Pages 111-113

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The Relation between Epistemological Behaviorism and objectivity in McDowell’s Eyes

saide kowkab

Volume 12, Issue 1 , August 2014, , Pages 115-132

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The major problem of the present article is to investigaterelation between Epistemological Behaviorism and objectivity. Can we believe in the one and set aside the foundational ... Read More

Epistemological Critique of the Simplicity and Otherness in the Existence

milad nouri yalghuzghaji; r alemi

Volume 13, Issue 2 , March 2016, , Pages 115-126

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The existence is a categorical concept according to Kant’s philosophy. Kant, going to be a subjectivist philosopher, negates the existence as a perfection and concludes the separation ... Read More

Fichte's Conception of Natural Right and Hegel'sCritique

Mehdi Mirabian Tabar

Volume 13, Issue 1 , June 2016, , Pages 117-135

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Is Suffering Bad?” Derek Parfit and Nietzsche on Suffering

hamid reza mahboobi

Volume 16, Issue 1 , July 2018, , Pages 117-139

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Derek Parfit argues the central normative belief that “all sufferingis bad in itself” is held by all of us and known by intuition.Furthermore, given the intuitive statue ... Read More

Comparison Of 13thAD Logicians' Point Of View And Gelenbevi In Theory Of Syllogism

Malihe Ehsani Nik

Volume 11, Issue 2 , March 2014, , Pages 121-137

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The traditional logician’s explanation on categorical syllogism, make the analysis of controversial syllogism and other relative syllogism, very difficult. The thirteenth century ... Read More

The Origin of Beauty in Rumi Viewpoint

Hossein Navvab

Volume 14, Issue 2 , March 2017, , Pages 123-142

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Muslim thinkers have discussed "Origin of beauty" and "Origin of enjoying the masterpieces of art" in their works and there is a long tradition of this problem in Western philosophy. ... Read More

The Dangers of Altruism: An Explanation and Analysis of the Principle of Maximization of the Good in Normative Ethics and John Rawls’s Criticisms on It

Shirzad Peik Herfeh

Volume 11, Issue 1 , September 2013, , Pages 125-144

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This paper, in its first part, analyzes the status and history of the principle of “maximization of the good” and the different meanings of “maximization” and ... Read More

A Philosophical Examination of the Arguments against Criminalization of Mere Thought

Hamidreza Mahboobi Arani

Volume 17, Issue 2 , March 2020, , Pages 125-144

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In the criminal jurisprudence, It is kind of an established and generally accepted maxim that we must never punish anyone for his mere thought (or thoughts) including his feelings, ... Read More

The objectivity of moral concepts and judgments in Philippa Foot’s Theory: Different interpretations of the Theory of Natural Goodness and its Problems

setareh Ezzatabadi; saeide kokabhsjh

Volume 16, Issue 2 , March 2019, , Pages 127-150

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Throughout history, “the objectivity of moral concepts and judgments” has been an issue of crucial importance to a great number of philosophers. Philippa Foot, a British ... Read More

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The Problem of the Impossibility of Knowledge of the Divine Essence in Islamic Mysticism and its Resolution

Rouhollah Souri

Volume 18, Issue 2 , March 2021, , Pages 131-154

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In the view of the mystics, the Divine Essence is the “Unconditional Existence that is the Subject of Division of Existence.” This Being is incapable of being understood ... Read More In the view of the mystics, the Divine Essence is the “Unconditional Existence that is the Subject of Division of Existence.” This Being is incapable of being understood due to its limitlessness and undetermined nature. The result of the incapability of the understanding of the Divine Essence is that it no ruling is capable of being passed regarding it. This is something that the mystics have explicitly stated. The impossibility of the understanding of the Divine Essence and the incapability of passing any judgment regarding it results in many problems. For example, the Divine Essence will be incapable of being worshipped. Secondly, this contradicts the religious texts that speak of the possibility of understanding God. Thirdly, it opposes some rules that we pass regarding Him, such as “His being existent.” In order to free themselves from this problem, some mystics have admitted that it is possible to understand the Divine Essence in a somewhat ambiguous and concise manner. They have said that the demonstrations that are mentioned to prove that knowledge of the Divine Essence is impossible are specifically concerned with the complete and elaborate knowledge of God. These mystics present three important interpretations for the aforementioned “concise” knowledge. All of these mystics seek to justify the direct knowledge of the Divine Essence in such a manner that the thing that knowledge is directly concerned with is nothing but the Divine Essence. However, based upon the limitlessness of the Divine Essence, the direct understanding of God seems to be impossible, even if it be in a concise manner. This research paper divides understanding into direct and indirect knowledge. The analysis of the All-Pervasive Being and the Station of Simplicity and the discovery that these things need a reality beyond them is a type of indirect understanding of the Divine Essence that is capable of being expressed in the forms of concepts. The thing that this knowledge is related to is not the Divine Essence. So, it is not negated by the demonstrations that conclude that the Divine Essence is incapable of being understood. This knowledge is related to what the All-Pervasive Being and the Station of Simplicity externally depict, i.e. the Divine Essence that lies beyond them. This external depiction of the Divine Essence resembles a type of indirect knowledge of that Essence.

The birth of ethics from the tragedy Defense of the ethical interpretation of Aristotle’s katharsis

Shamsolmolok mostafavi

Volume 10, Issue 1 , September 2012, , Pages 149-177

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Defense of the ethical interpretation of Aristotle’s katharsis. One of the important genres in theatre and key topics in Aristotle’s Poietike is tragedy. In Aristotle’s ... Read More

Impossible Extensions and the Logic of the Concepts

Volume 9, Issue 2 , March 2012, , Pages 163-184

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A controversy among the Muslim philosophers about the domain of the extensions was that is the subject of the verity-propositions contained the impossible extensions or only all of ... Read More

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Volume 2, Issue 2 , December 2004

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In spite of the noteworthy congruence between the early and the later Wittgenstein, the two can separately be regarded as representing two of the most influential trends in the 20th ... Read More

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Volume 2, Issue 1 , May 2004

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The epistemology of archeology consists in the epistemological criticisms, analyses and evaluations of this particular scientific field that is generally concerned with exploring, discovering, ... Read More

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Volume 1, Issue 1 , June 2002

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Plato’s strange way of explaining the structure of the four elements and the five regular polyhedra and their reciprocal interchange in his Timaios has always led to controversial ... Read More

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Volume 1, Issue 2 , December 2002

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Hegel was an eminent philosopher in the Enlightenment. The principles of his thought, which are deep down humanistic, consolidated the basis and foundation of the modern western civilization. ... Read More