War and Peace in Plato’s Political Thought

The social and political framework of war and peace.

Virtue in Machiavelli’s Political Thought

The interpretability of Machiavelli’s political thought relates, in the most part, to the concept of virtue and its dimensions. In Western thought, this concept has had continuity and has reached the Renaissance and Machiavelli’s times. In the Roman and Medieval tradition, philosophical, verbal, religious and even literary and historical approaches were dominant in the clarification and explana...

War and Peace

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Nutrition in war and peace.

I t is a privilege to appear before the State and Provincial Health Authorities of North America in this historic city. It is also an unusual opportunity and a heavy responsibility—an opportunity to explore with you new vistas in the promotion of human health and welfare, and the responsibility of doing justice in a brief address to a most important and complex subject. Let me begin by trying t...

The Concept of “Political Legitimacy” in Shia Political Thought (With Focus on Imam Khomeini’s Political Thought)

Legitimacy is always considered an important concept among basic topics of political science; since it has been already posed as the prerequisite of acceptability for exercising of power in the societies through history. Accordingly, all of the political philosophies made efforts to establish an intellectual apparatus that enforces the fundamentals of governance, dealt to some extent with the i...