1. One of the striking features of intellectual discussions of Sanskrit authors in the centuries preceding South Asia's colonial period is the importance of semantic issues, and the sophistication with which these are approached. Major philosophical and religious topics are commonly discussed with reference to the semantic properties of relevant terms. The sophistication had developed in variou...

the aim of this article is to examine avicenna’s theory of the immortality of human soul. avicenna believes in immortality of the soul and resurrection of the body but he engages in a philosophical investigation about the former not the latter. according to his view, religion has talked of resurrection of the body in detail. the picture he presented of the immortality of the soul, viz spiritual...

With the “mathematical watershed”, Logic had been transformed into a foundational theory for mathematics, a theory of truth and proofs far away from its philosophical status of theory of the intellectual process of reasoning. With the recent substitution of the traditional proofs-as-discourses paradigm by the proofsas-programs one, Logic is now becomming a foundational theory for computing. One...

the eternity of al-nafs al-juziyah (finite self) is one of the most complicated philosophical issues. in some of his works, mulla sadra firmly pointed out the eternity of finite self; he similarly has specified the created-ness of the bodily soul; however, the former and the latter are apparently contradictory. the main objective of the present study is to indicate that according to the mystica...

talk about international trends in private policing, giving a philosophical overview. Perhaps you could look at the development of private security, contracting out of police services and contracting in of police services, private security and its growth, pointing out the dangers etc. . . . You could illustrate that privatisation cannot be viewed in isolation, but rather that it all has system ...

walking being the oldest form of urban transport, and until the advent of major transformationsin transport technology in the nineteenth century, most cities were structured in ways that supported walkability.today, there is a change in transportation which emphasizes, the traditional pedestrian paths which are increasinglybecoming non-regulated spaces when compared to the urban spaces for auto...

This paper considers the impact of service systems on group activities. It describes an inter-professional groupwork project facilitated by a social worker and a community nurse. The project provided an emancipatory experience for a group of adults who had intellectual disabilities. The group was charged with the task of reviewing and updating the recruitment and interview processes used by a ‘...

a response to the problem of irans backwardness preoccupied the minds of intellectual and political forces. since irans failure from russia while different domestic and external factors caused to defeat, differend and even contending views concerning irans backwardness played a key role in these failures. these diverse and contending views which arised at first in compilation of laws and establ...

Intellectual property protections on seeds have increased dramatically in recent decades, from the granting of patent-like protections on certain types of seeds in 1970 to the enforcement of contract provisions for seeds beyond the first sale in 2013. During this same period, the seed industry has experienced rapid consolidation. Although as recently as the 1970s, it was characterized by thousa...