collapse of the christian church in the west is the beginning of enlightenment era in which western theorists constituted a new base in theoretical and practical thoughts with dominance of positivist thoughts and with disregard to metaphysical principles. meanwhile, when these new schools of thought became unable to lay a solid foundation to give meaning to the world and human life and when the...

divine essence and explanation of his ontological place is an important problem for religious schools in conceptual and direct knowledge and both the philosophers and mystics concerns about it. mystics believed the method of intuition, but afterwards the emergence of speculative mysticism, they try to translate the intellectual intuition to conceptual knowledge, attaining this purpose, they use...

The humanist mission of translation is believed to be rooted in the universal humane urge to spread knowledge and to eliminate misunderstanding among people as well as to generate a broader space for communication. What is absent from this philanthropist definition is the workings of power and the political agendas that influence the translator's stance and his/her interpretation of the text th...

the present study seeks to explain and analyse some of the fundamentals of hick’s discussion of the problem of evil or theodicy. in this study, while analysing john hick’s solution to the problem of the existence of evil in the world, we will see that he begins his exposition of the discussion of theodicy by interpreting the notion of primordial fall (and sin) as a myth and opines that moral ev...

The purpose of this article is to review the main concepts Mulla Sadra’s philosophy. These ideas are foundation Al-Hikmah Al-Muta'alliyah group philosophy theory. This philosophy, along with Al-Masya'iyyah and Al-Isyraqiyah, one three major groups in Islamic study used a descriptive analysis. author reviews work Sadra, namely fil Al-Sysfar 'Aqliyah Arba'ah another book, Al-Masya'ir. Secondary r...

philosophical – theological research the quarterly journal of qom university under the supervision of the vice – president for research vol. 15,  no. 2, winter 2013.  proprietor: university of qom chief director: muhammad zabihi. ph.d chief editor: ahmad beheshti, ph.d   board of writers ahmad beheshti, ph.d; gholam-hossein ebrahimi dinani, ph.d; mohsen javadi, ph.d; hojatoleslam sadeq larigani...