Recent research has shown that religious individuals are much more resistant to utilitarian modes of thinking than their less religious counterparts, but the reason for this is not clear. We propose that a meta-ethical belief that morality is rooted in inviolable divine commands (i.e., endorsement of Divine Command Theory) may help explain this finding. We present a novel 20-item scale measurin...

We provide a syllabification algorithm for the Divine Comedy using techniques from probabilistic and constraint programming. particularly focus on synalephe , addressed in terms of "propensity" word to take part with adjacent words. jointly an online vocabulary containing, each word, information about its syllabification, location tonic accent, aforementioned propensity, left right sides. The i...

the truth about divine names and the meanings of divine names and attributes have always been regarded as key issues in islamic theology and philosophy, and their surrounding debates have so far triggered controversial and challenging ideas. in this context, the difference of opinions between ibn sina as the head of the peripatetic school and mulla sadra as the founder of transcendental theosop...