â â â â â  features of gibranian utopia in his literary works â  â sardar aslani * â  â abstractâ  every thinker and man of letters who pursues a goal in his or her works has a utopia. after introducing utopia by plato, farabi and st. augustine, gibran khalil gibran established the foundations of his own particular utopia. the features of his utopia are as follows: 1) freedom 2) kindness 3) jus...

like volter, french salient author, al- jahiz is a philosopher literate; namely, literary dimension of his personality predominates over his philosophical character. like other great literati and writer of the world, he was a master in all sciences and knowledge of his age including philosophy, speech, politics, and a verity of customs, beliefs and religions and in some of them he was skillful ...

Several recently developed philosophical approaches to the self promise to enhance the exchange of ideas between the philosophy of the mind and the other cognitive sciences. This review examines two important concepts of self: the 'minimal self', a self devoid of temporal extension, and the 'narrative self', which involves personal identity and continuity across time. The notion of a minimal se...

Most non-long terminal repeat (non-LTR) retrotransposons encoding a restriction-like endonuclease show target-specific integration into repetitive sequences such as ribosomal RNA genes and microsatellites. However, only a few target-specific lineages of non-LTR retrotransposons are distributed widely and no lineage is found across the eukaryotic kingdoms. Here we report the most widely distribu...

<p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-GB">The academic character of the article is connected with attempt to answer question asked in title: Utopia without law – it possible? The theoretical arguments provided by author lead an affirmative this and allow for formulating following thesis: there no utopia law. not only present utopias, both positive negative ones (anti-utopias dystopias)...

Ancient Chinese philosophy already developed a philosophy of humanitarianism or humanity in the general sense. The concept of "Ren" / "Jen" was indeed a main idea already in Confucianism. It was to my mind Mencius, who was the most explicit, if not even the first, philosopher of what I call concrete humanity. The article takes up Albert Schweitzer's discussion of MengZi's philosophical humanita...

Copyright: © 2014. The Authors. Licensee: AOSIS OpenJournals. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License. In the current times of change, deconstruction and ever-growing relativisation, pastoral praxis finds itself in methodological limbo. Pastoral practitioners currently face the challenge of effectively reaching postmodern people through the pastoral process. This ch...

The aim of this article is to present the phenomenon utopianism on example texts published in Polish magazine Młody Technik years 1975–1985. work refers findings leading researchers utopian studies and thinkers utopia. are analyzed terms presence a desire narrative them. also focuses multiplicity problems raised from journal. conducted analyses show strong mentioned declining phase People’s Rep...