Avicenna is a renowned peripatetic philosopher whose rationality continuously draws the attention of many scholars. In many of his works, he resorts to the hierarchy of intellects (angels) to explain the process of the emanation of the multiplicity from the One, as well as the emergence of beings. As these intellects are among the ontological causes of the human soul in the arc of descent, they...

department of islamic philosophy and wisdom, zanjan university bringing up the ancients’ views and asking about their ultimate condition in mullā ṣadrā’s thinking and that of his disciples has had a significant impact on the formation and development of the motion theory. mentioning the names and bringing up the views of the ancient greek philosophers, as evidences for truthfulness in the disco...

G. W. F. Hegel (1770–1831) has commonly been seen as Europe’s leading philosopher since Kant. His influence extended across the globe down to Second World War – not least through his dissident disciple, Karl Marx. Since then, despite intermittent revivals, importance tended be eclipsed by a rising tide of anti-modernist polemic, extending from Heidegger postmodernism. Central Hegel’s political ...

hojatt-ol hagh hakim abolfath-e omar ibn-e ebrahim known as khayyam or khayyami, was a philosopher, mathematician, astrologer, and poet of late fifth-early sixth century a.d. for long he was famous for his scientific features, however, later on his stanzas, were introduced to the world, the west in particular, through the translations provided by the nineteenth century british poet fitzgerald. ...

Dr. D avidson’s book, w hich is in fact a fusion of his own ideas w ith the Ita lian philosopher Gramsci, w ill m ake in teresting reading for m ost com m unists and those of the left who are genuinely in terested in radical social change. I t w ill be appreciated by m any ran k and file communists, in particu lar, as the first real work to give a guide to the Ita lian style m arxism and the p ...

Referring to Christian Wolff’s letters to the Count of Manteuffel, his maecenas, I want to show how the philosopher Wolff had to present himself (dependant on the expectations of his addressee) as a specific social or intellectual type in order to propagate reliably what he and his adherents called the ‘truth’ of his philosophical worldview.1 Based on my analysis of Wolff’s correspondence with ...

Philosopher: Today, I suggest we discuss the important concepts of common knowledge and common belief. As far as I know, the first one to give a formal analysis of these concepts was the philosopher David Lewis, in his book Convention [131]. One of his examples is traffic conventions, about the role of common knowledge in how one behaves in road traffic. To explain this properly, I wonder if yo...

Group brainstorming is a very popular technique for the creation of ideas, although the state of the art in psychological research backs from this kind of brainstorming. Electronic brainstorming overcomes some of the drawbacks and regains some value. Unfortunately, the electronic brainstorming still is in infantile state and lacks some modern techniques which may make the whole approach more ef...

These two books dealing with psychotherapy are in sharp contrast. The first, by a P^Iosopher, was written fifty years ago and is a small book, consisting of two .Prions taken from the large volume newly translated from the German under the 'le "General Psychopathology". The second is a contemporary work written by a Poetising psychoanalyst, who is concerned with the description of levels of psy...