Many philosophers have worried about what philosophy is. Often they have looked for answers by considering what it is that philosophers do. Given the diversity of topics and methods found in philosophy, however, we propose a different approach. In this article we consider the philosophical temperament, asking an alternative question: What are philosophers like? Our answer is that one important ...

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What exactly is a philosophical intuition? And what makes such an intuition reliable, when it is reliable? is paper provides a terminological framework that is able answer to the rst question, and then puts the framework to work developing an answer to the second question. More specically, the paper argues that we can distinguish between two dišerent “evidential roles” which intuitions can oc...

Background: Isfahan, with a history of several thousand years, is a unique treasure of folklore and culture, and oral stories among its people are one of the oldest examples of thinking and imagination of the people of this province, which shows their quality and mental issues and sorrow. It is a valid and useful document of the social history of these people. This study aims to investigate the...

Background: Psychological archetypes are according to Carl Jung universal, archaic patterns and images that derived from the collective unconscious psychic counterpart of an instinct. Besides fundamental Jungian (persona, shadow, anima, animus, great mother, wise old man, hero, self self-realization), there may be plenty other psychological archetypes, existence which can deduced indirectly thr...

Svetkali Nurzhan (Aitman) is one of the outstanding poets who came to world poetry with their style, won hearts readers, determined place in modern Kazakh poetry. His poems and stories depict various problems historical era present a special artistic manner deep socio-philosophical overtones give rise own thoughts. The poet's desire reveal layers social reality human nature distinguished by its...

Histories of Arabic and Islamic philosophy tend to focus on texts which are systematic in nature conventionally classified as or related scholarly disciplines. Philosophical principles, however, also defining features associated with other genres. Within the larger field philosophy, this might be especially true ethics within body literature case for stories. Indeed, it is sometimes argued that...