although some scholars view habermas as the most important philosopher and social theorist, his account of religion has been relatively neglected. in this paper, habermas’s early and later views of religion are outlined, and the change in his understanding of religion from one of the sources of modernity’s inner problems to a principal source of the passions and motivations underpinning cultura...

throughout the years, philosophers and psychologists have striven to solve the mind-boggling question of learning by juxtaposing the two competing theories, namely, empiricism and rationalism. they have usually opted for one and ruled out the other on the grounds that it cannot account for learning because theoretical and empirical evidence discredits it. since 1965, with the publication of cho...

intertextuality is one of the most significant techniques to which modern literary scholars have paid considerable attention. intertextuality signifies the participation of the texts within one another, thus every literary text contains several other texts with which it bears relations. the ancient scholars had recognized the phenomenon of intertextuality as well, labeling it though as plagiari...

the leaders of the soviet :union: adopted atheist and anti-religious policies toward muslim nations during decades of ruling over central asia; the polices that posed a threat to the existence of muslims. following the outbreak of second world war, the government of the soviet :union: was forced to revise its hostile policies toward muslims and establish muslim religious department also known a...

Over the last thirty years, strategic management has become established as a legitimate field of research and managerial practice (Shrivastava, 1986: 363). In the evolution of strategy research, a diversity of partly competitive and partly supplementary paradigms have emerged. To provide an unequivocal definition would mean ignoring the versatility of strategic management. The choice of a defin...