Modesty and Veil in Divine Religions

man and god of divine religions

monotheistic religions are revelation-centred.in these religions god's experience is transmitted to man through language,and this linguistic experience has two characteristics: first,it is communicated between god and man and is thust holy and serves as a basis for his religions life. secodlay, the very experience is desired. this experience of communication is by no means restricted revel...

Truth-bearers and Modesty *

In this paper I discuss Künne’s Modest Theory of truth, and develop a variation on a worry that Field expresses with respect to Horwich’s related view. The worry is not that deflationary accounts are false, but rather that, because they take propositions as truth-bearers, they are not philosophically interesting. Compatibly with the intuitions of ordinary speakers, we can understand proposition...

belief in evil eye among people of antiquity and divine religions

common culture is the basis of exact identification of nations and the manner of their distinctions from others. cultural and social beliefs are inseparable parts of human lives as they always lived with human beings right from their creation. in a way that even today a number of beliefs of civilized people, with regard to a chain of appropriate or inappropriate rites and ceremonies, have roots...

Prototypical Modesty 1 Running head: PROTOTYPICAL MODESTY Everyday Conceptions of Modesty: A Prototype Analysis

Prototypical Modesty 2 Abstract Good theoretical definitions of psychological phenomena are not only rigorously formulated but also provide ample conceptual coverage. To assess the latter, we empirically surveyed everyday conceptions of modesty in a combined US/UK sample. In Study 1, participants freely generated multiple exemplars of modesty that judges subsequently sorted into superordinate c...

Divine Eros and Divine Providence in Proclus’ Educational System