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Causal Conceptions in Social Explanation and Moral Evaluation: A Historical Tour.

Understanding the causes of human behavior is essential for advancing one's interests and for coordinating social relations. The scientific study of how people arrive at such understandings or explanations has unfolded in four distinguishable epochs in psychology, each characterized by a different metaphor that researchers have used to represent how people think as they attribute causality and ...

The last Ibn `Alqami`s Governmental Life as an Abbasid Shia Minister

The last Ibn `Alqami has been known as Alle Abbas` most influential and successful Shia minister. During his fourteen years of ministry, he tried to close to Moghuls with friendly relationship and prevent their invasion. Because of unwisely decisions of the Caliphate and his revenge seeker in the government, however, his wisely measured attempts failed. Therefore, moghul`s armies attacked and t...

AN INTRODUCTION TO THE THOUGHT OF TEILHARD DE CHARDIN AS A CATALYST FOR INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, as he is more commonly known, was a Jesuit priest who died in 1955, having worked for some twenty years as a paleontologist in China. While being a renowned scientist, who assisted in the finding of the Peking Man fossil, Teilhard’s main desire and scholastic efforts were to reshape modern Christian theology in the light of contemporary science, especially in his own...

Sidonius Apollinaris as a Flexible Thinking Person of Fifth-Century GAUL

The paper deals with the personality traits of Gallo-Roman author Sidonius Apollinaris (~430–489) who was a representative of Late Roman nobility and clergyman as well. It wasn’t unusual situation for 4th-6th century’s Mediterranean world, when intellectual elite was a fueler for religious leaders. Nonetheless some of them underwent the crisis of identity, others continued to hold old values an...