city is consisted of a range of specific activities which are responsive to human needs. it deals with human’s features, thoughts and approaches and struggles to achieve formation of the city depending on his world-view and insight. degree of desirability and quality of the city relates to intellectual space that are prevailing on it. islam as a human insight which is rooted from their worldvie...

the concept of man in the different religious scriptures gives somewhat a diverse understanding towards what is the true nature of man. due to the vastness of the topic, this paper would like to limit the paper in discussing what human nature is all about from imam ali’s perspective. in doing so, it will refer to the most important source, namely the nahj al-balagha. according to the teachings ...

mulla sadra uses his own principles in the debate over unity, multiplicity and graded unity of being to develop a profound interpretation from the noble tradition “there is no compulsion and volition but something in between”. this approach is formed via exposing the meaning of hierarchy in sadra’s theosophy, human deeds are attributed both to the individual himself and the divine will. his bre...

Abstract The paper discusses Jerome’s attack against the belief that human beings share same substance as heavenly powers and even Trinity, according to dignity ( dignitas ) of soul: in polemical texts such Ep . 124.14, Jerome attributes this Origen. intent clearly demarcate difference nature between divine is also reflected his exegetical writings, especially when dealing with Psalm 81, where ...

Two generations before Aristotle wrote his celebrated treatise on what the nature of tragic mimesis (or imitation) is, the comic poet Aristophanes had written two plays about the subject, Thesmophoriazusae and the more celebrated Frogs. The first play has the poet Euripides as its hero, and the second the god Dionysus. This god is the son of Zeus and a mortal woman, and at a festival in his hon...

The proportions of the female frame.?The following canons as to the female form divine may be of interest to our readers They are taken from Die Schoenheit des weiblichen Koerpers, the work of Dr. J. Stratz, who was for many years in practice as a gynaecologist in Java, and has, since his return to Europe, busied himself with matters medico-artistic. It is matter of notoriety that while the art...

The Greeks considered congenital deformities to be of divine origin and eventually these monsters were thought to indicate a divine warning of some future calamity and the infant and even the mother were sacrificed to propitiate the gods (Glenister, 1957). The sympodial deformity has been recognized from earliest times and may well have given rise to the myth of the siren. The legendary monster...