Film as Modern Medium and Ontology

Internet Film as an Evolutionary Medium

Walåyah and Islamic ontology

The present paper aims at clarifying the role of the concept “walåyah” in the philosophy of the unity of being in Islamic philosophy (waedat al-wujid). The concept “walåyah” is deeply built into the philosophic system of the Islamic theory of being, and moreover the dynamic aspect of this concept has always activated Islamic philosophy of existence and stimulated the thought of Islamic philosop...

Wave Propagation in Dielectric Medium Thin Film Medium

Various tools have been employed in studying and computing beam or field propagation in a medium with variation of small refractive index Feit and (Fleck,et al,1976)(Fleck,1978)( Ugwu et al,2007) some researchers had employed beam propagation method based on diagonalization of the Hermitian operator that generates the solution of the Helmholtz equation in media with real refractive indices (Thy...

?Logic and Formal Ontology: Is the Final Formal Ontology Possible

Musa Akrami AbstractMany philosophers and logicians have contemplated the relationship between ontology and logic. The author of this paper, working within a Bolzanoan-Husserlian tradition of studying both ontology and logic, considers ontology as the science of the most general features of beings and the most general relations among them. He considers logic as the science concernin...

Faust on Film: A Hegelian Modern Art

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between German Expressionist film and Hegel’s system of aesthetics. Through an analysis of the aesthetic qualities of Hanns Ewers’ The Student of Prague (1913) and F.W. Murnau’s Faust, I believe we have evidence to believe that the subjectivity that German Expressionist film sought to capture is aligned with the ‘interiority’ that Heg...