When dealing with hierarchical systems that are selfreferential and display inter-level effects, the notion of causality must be reconceptualized in terms other than that of the billiard ball, collision conception that is the legacy of mechanism. Understanding all cause as collision like, and the explanatory ideal as deduction from deterministic laws, are part of a trend that has characterized ...

Today's mental health system is largely a product of western science. Like a one-eyed giant, it has great power, but it lacks the wisdom which makes life sacred and meaningful. The challenge for today's mental health system is to unite East and West; to integrate wisdom and science; to make room for the sacred as well as the practical. One of the most critical domains for integration-and one of...

in the wisdom-faith relation debate, as one of the most important issues in theology, thomas aquinas, the renowned christian rhetoric of the middle ages, intellectually claims that wisdom is independent and even superior to faith. in the modern cartesian intellectualism, there is nothing superior to the wisdom, put differently; things which can’t be recognized through logic can’t be considered ...

Abstract Within contemporary discussions on organizational wisdom, management scholars frequently turn to Aristotle’s work conceptualize wisdom as phronesis , or practical wisdom. Contrary the prevailing view, this paper argues that Aristotle did not propose an exclusively particularistic conception of but, instead acknowledged broadly conceived consists two types intellectual virtue: theoretic...

According to Foucault, Descartes and then Locke would have created a sort of disenchantment, Entzauberung in Max Weber’s sense, of the value of truth. Before Descartes and Locke, theoretical wisdom went hand in hand with practical wisdom and virtue. After them, the norms of knowledge, or epistemic norms, can have all sorts of origins: they can be based on natural facts, or created by language, ...

the relationship between wisdom and belief from ghazli and the reverendabstract wisdom is one of the ranks of human through which it acquires knowledge and functions and belief is a heart acknowledgement which reaches human the confidence and inner relief. how are they relevant? can we be self – contained of one of them if we have the other one? this present writing has investigated this issue ...