This article is a brief review of Ibn Sīnā’s practical philosophy. It begins with a discussion of the Platonic, Aristotelian, and Neo-Platonic influences on Ibn Sīnā’s practical philosophy, as well as the influence of Fārābī and of Islamic religious teachings. The creative synthesis invented by Ibn Sīnā requires a particular view of the relation between religion and philosophy in such a manner ...

This paper addresses the scholarly debate over Nietzsche’s relationship to transhumanism. Most writing on this topic has focused almost exclusively whether or not thought is philosophically compatible with transhumanist philosophy. Because ideas are always transmitted in cogent ways, approach inadequate address question of how Nietzsche may have influenced I propose replacing current a history ...

the hermeneutic circle articulated by different hermeneuticans in various versions is one of the basic problems in modern hermeneutics. romanic hermeneutics introduced the circle as a methodological principle, but in philosophical hermeneutics the circle has ontological dimensions and regards as a process of understanding. heidegger believes that hermeneutic circle reflects dasein’s existential...

art has not been extensively discussed in the islamic tradition, except a few instances in the islamic jurisprudence. there is no discussion of the essence or definition of art in islamic scholarly spheres, including philosophical spheres. one can find nothing comparable to the philosophy of art as found in the western philosophy, especially after the eighteenth century, in the philosophical or...

It is pointed out (in the framework of the author's biophysical relativistic model of altered states of consciousness) that transitional states of consciousness represent an excellent framework for understanding and mental control of transpersonal mystical states of consciousness described in various religious and esoteric traditions of East and West during the history of civilization, implying...