Critical Review of Qur'anic Family Orders and Modern Feminist Thought

Machiavelli and the Foundation of the Modern Political Thought

The present article intends to start introduction to the political thinking of          Machiavelli by passing through some key concepts in his thinking, and by placing his idea in the area of political thinking. Surveying ethics in Machiavelli’s political thinking needs     separate individual ethics from political (civil) one.  And explaining Machiavelli’s remarks about the category of ethics...

A Review of Critical Buddhism: Engaging with Modern Japanese Buddhist Thought

Meridian Essence: Modern Thought

Meridian essence has been investigated through anatomy, electrophysiology, biophysics, and biochemistry. Various hypotheses of meridian essence exist, but no hypothesis can truly reflect the internal character of Chinese medicine (CM). The research of meridian essence requires a holistic viewpoint and innovative awareness. Initially, any hypothesis regarding meridian essence should begin with o...

Review the Necessity of Critical Regionalism in the Development of Modern Architecture

   Since entering the new century, Iranians architectural field treats the scientific thoughts of “Regionalism” and “Critical Regionalism” more and more rationally and gradually abandons shallow copy of “racialism”. This transfer of historical trend does not originate from the update of academic definition, but from cultural critical renewal of the traditional architectural culture for months...

The Dialectic Suppression of Feminist Thought in Radical Pedagogy

Undoubtedly, the dialectic process articulated in Hegel's Phenomenologyof Spirit has had major influences on some of composition's more notable theorists of radical or liberatory pedagogy. Theorists like Paulo Freire and Henry Giroux, although different from each other in a number of ways,seem to agree that the goal of liberatory pedagogy should be to bring about some kind of dialectic change. ...