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the connection between philosophy and literature goes back at least to plato, who has a well reputed fame in philosophy as well as literature. schopenhauer, russell, bergson and … are the other philosophers whose philosophical works, according to critics, are comparable to the best literary works. in order to express their philosophical viewpoints they have had access to an appropriate language...

abstract aesthetic viewpoints and philosophical concepts are effective factors which can conduct artistic movements. the impact of philosophical basis on the cultural, social, historical and artistic tendencies is to extent that the mentioned philosophical basis is specified as detailed and separated chapters. among the development and exposition of the philosophical concepts of art area, there...

Philosophical perspectives are worldviews that define the nature of the world, the individual’s place in it, and the possible relationships to that world and its parts. Learning and instructional theories are developed with respect to a particular set of assumptions regarding what it means to know and learn. It is our contention that when situational variables require some decision on the part ...

The historical development of concepts of causality in philosophy is described. Since the Enlightenment and the growth of science, exponents of the two most important concepts, determinism and teleology, have been in conflict. At the inception of psychoanalysis at the end of the nineteenth century this conflict was particularly intense. It was the cause of the first major schism in psychoanalys...

in shiite school, imamate is one of the self-evident doctrinal principles, which is on the same level as prophethood. during the history of shiism, many thinkers and intellectuals have considered this principle in philosophical and theological terms. they have comprehensively elaborated on the characteristics of those, who hold this position. thus, the transcendental theosophy, as one of the ma...

since welfare, as a philosophical issue, has considered as an indication of man’s highest intellectual status and dignity, it always attracted the philosopher’s attention and they continuously asked weather: -did all philosophers agree about the same meaning of welfare? -did they agree about its determination and dimensions? -can welfare from the philosophical meaning contain religious or ethic...