That Man To Man Is An Arrant Wolfe

An Interpretive Analysis of the Verses of the Cultivation of Common Man to the Qur'anic Man under Divine Teaching

The human conditions was very different before and after breathing the soul and the teaching the names; This caused the devil not to prostrate and to disobey the divine command. The present study, by descriptive-analytical method and by comparing the verses of Surahs: Al-Alaq, Al-Baqarah and Al-Rahman and considering the relationship between the mentioned verses, came to the conclusion that the...

No man is an island.

No man is an island…

As much of my work is collaborative, I am very aware of the virtues and difficulties of collaboration in the modern scientific world. Most collaborations are short term; perhaps one scientist has an assay, the other a reagent, and an obvious quick gain will result from joining forces. But greater (though often less concrete) benefits come from longer term collaborations. Your collaborator may b...

Is Man Doomed to Progress?

This paper is dedicated to the empirical exploration of the welfare effect of expectations and progress per se. Using ten waves of the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey, a panel household survey rich in subjective variables, the analysis suggests that for a given total stock of inter-temporal consumption, agents are more satisfied with an increasing time-profile of consumption: they seem t...

Who was that masked man?

Stephen Gaukroger’s new biography of Descartes is a major accomplishment. Gaukroger offers the reader an overview of Descartes’ life and works, with healthy doses of intellectual background thrown in for good measure. It should have a major impact on Cartesian studies, both within the history of philosophy and within the history of science. As Gaukroger’s full title makes clear, this is suppose...