the subject of divine will is discussed in three views of imammieh, moatazeleh, and ashaereh scholars. in views of them, god has will, however, there are differences between their beliefs: is divine will a substance attribute or an attribute surplus to substance is divine will an ancient or created attribute is divine will an affirmative or privative attribute is divine will a real or unreal at...

this study attempts to explore the development and evolution of mackinder's geopolitical thinking in global politics of british empire and its influence thereafter. this research paper examines the characteristics of geopolitical perspective of britain, through halford mackinder's heartland theory during the three periods of the early twentieth century to the present time. in this reg...

in his attempt to investigate how communication, understanding and interpretation develop, donald davidson appeals to the so-called “principle of charity” anduses it across the board. this principle in fact is a set of different and interrelated principles and consists in three bases: consistency, correspondence and agreement. in this paper, reviewing function, position and different aspects of...

post – materialism and political science development dr. hossein salimi in social science area, some think that scientific studies require and content a hidden materialism. they believe a sort of interconnection and synchronization between materialism and scientific studies, however emerging and expansion of post-materialism school reveals that it is not right. in the article it will be endeavo...

what is talent? how can it be identified? who is responsible for identifying it? are there universally valued talents, or are they all culturally bound? there are at least three different levels of analysis to explore these questions. on the government level, we must philosophically decide on how our country chooses and expresses its values through what is taught, to whom, and for what periods ...

Bookcrossing is a unique website where books are shared among members and travel around the world. In this paper, we study several features of Bookcrossing regarding book flows, book genres and social networking. We first examine the direction, density, length and speed of book flows and find that the US is the biggest source of book flows, while Finland and Australia are two largest sinks and ...

commissioned in 1929 by the government of Southern Rhodesia (present-day Zimbabwe) to research the language varieties spoken by Zimbabwean natives. His work, which was premised on the quest for standardised, monolithic and homogeneous linguistic categories, marked the genesis of language politics in Zimbabwe. The Dokean legacy left an indelible mark on the terrain of language treatment and lang...

the contract looks like the natural law. this means the negation of the principle of the autonomy of the will and the will of legislator as a basis for the validity of contractual content would be rejected. because the foundation of creation and validity of natural law would not be the will, but natural justice and natural equity. therefore, the foundation of the validity for such a contract- s...