the ideal theory is plato’s most important philosophical view involving his allegory of the cave. he tried much to explain this theory and present arguments in order to prove it. however, his views on the proof arguments and the concrete materials with ideals suffer from shortcomings. the present paper argues that the critiques of aristotle, avicenna, and allamah tabatabaee against this theory ...

modern scientific cosmology, having grounded itself in materialism, rebuts any theocentric explanation of the world as unnecessary and irrational. stephan hawking, being a prominent figure in this field, seeks to demonstrate that the world has come to existence by chance or necessity through an antitheistic argument based on big bang theory. regarding the metaphysical dimensions of the discours...

theistic philosophers have special view on human nature. they define it in terms of rational faculty and thus regard human final perfection and ultimate felicity dependent on the activity of this faculty and actualization of it. there are philosophers, such as plato, plotinus, and zakariya al-razi (rhazes), who maintain explicitly that human felicity is based on his becoming philosopher. other ...

This paper sheds light on the views of Mulla Sadra about virtue and action. The main question is how he explains the relationship, if any, between virtue and action. Mulla Sadra defines moral virtue as a settled inner disposition by which one acts morally, without need for any reflection or deliberation. This study seeks to explain how, according to Mulla Sadra, a virtue motivates the agent and...

the foundation and corner stone ef mulla sadra's attitude toiuards man depends on his whole philosophical system of transcendent philosopfd, tuhich is plunged deep!j into his metapysical vieiv efman as a microcosm in whom creation returns to its source and multiplidty to its uniry; the prindples of his stttcfy provide, therefore, the last link in the rycle of his cosmology and a kry for th...

william lane craig, american recent philosopher has tried with appealing to cantor’s latest ideas and also theory of “big bang” in physics; present a new explanation of cosmological argument. his explanation which is called “kalam- cosmological argument” is going to describe moslem philosopher’s argument in this aspect, like kendi and ghazali. he makes efforts to refuse the doctrine of eternali...