Tabatabai's theory about the meaning of life can be referred to as active objectivism, where a man plays an important role in achieving the meaningful life, rather than merely discovering the divine view about his ...

Prof. Haack answers a series of questions on pragmatism, beginning with the origins of this tradition in the work of Peirce and James, its evolution in the work of Dewey and Mead, and its influence beyond the United ...

La Chouette aveugle de Sadegh Hedayat, auteur iranien, qui appartient à la catégorie des œuvres dites « noires », se fonde sur une inspiration nihiliste. Malgré l'influence indéniable de la philosophie nihiliste dans la ...

The paper aims at reevaluating a conception of the aesthetic that was developed by Kant and Hegel but that has been widely neglected due to the fact that their positions in aesthetics have been wrongly considered to ...

Il faut savoir que le mysticisme a eu toujours de grandes influences sur tout ce qui concerne la vie et la culture iraniennes, surtout sur l'éducation qui est une étape très importante dans la formation de l'avenir de ...

This paper argues that a language can exist and flourish in a community even if none of of the members of the community has any communication intentions; and that reference to the notion of communication intention can ...

One of the most important causes for comparative studying on philosophical systems is to find their commonalities for responding common questions and to emphasize on their differences for taking functional answers encountering ...

The crucial problem of self-consciousness is how to account for knowing self-reference without launching into a regress or without presupposing self-consciousness rather than accounting for it (circle). In the literature ...

The philosophical investigations into universals was entangled with the combination of a certain Christian faith and Ontology, especially in ancient and medieval times. That is, God's creative activity provided us with the ...

No special definite definition does exist for postmodernism however it has had an inordinate effect on art, architecture, music, film, literature, philosophy, sociology, communications, fashion, and technology. ...

Adam Smith and J-J Rousseau share some common ground when it comes to religion, namely that they were born into  and educated in cultural contexts deeply shaped by Reformed Christianity. However, close consideration ...

In this paper, we will discuss what is called “Manifestation Challenge" to semantic realism, which was originally developed by Michael Dummett and has been further refined by Crispin Wright. According to this challenge, ...

Ṣadrā presents the usefulness of the faculties of perception governed by the intellect as a fitting paradigm for understanding man's being in the world in relation to the divine purpose and source of this being. ...

Due to the the movements in European thought from the 16th-17th centuries that have generated enough controversy around the ideas of ʻnatural philosophyʼ and ʻexperimental philosophyʼ, I think it would be appropriate to ...

L'homme beckettien représente grosso modo sur la scène de théâtre des années cinquante le spectacle de souffrance physique et de désintégration totale du sujet qui est le fait d'un trauma et d'un complexe plus profonds, ...