intellect is a fundamental topic of concern in the peripatetic philosophy. a comparison of al-farabi’s approach to ‘intellect’ (an iranian muslim philosopher with an oriental background) with that of alexander of aphrodisias’ (a greek philosopher with an occidental background) may reveal the contrasting features of aristotelian peripatetic philosophy and the islamic philosophy. basing itself on...

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...

it is said that the theory of active intellect is among the most ambiguous and controversial topics of aristotle’s philosophy. this ambiguity is generally regarded as being resulted from the brevity and vagueness of aristotle’s speech in his on the soul. however; is the ambiguity of aristotle’s speech to such an extent that the active intellect attributed to him can be regarded as separate from...

in his discourses concerning perception of universals, mullā ṣadrā has brought up various issues. on one hand, he says that in sensory and imaginative perceptions, the soul (nafs) is the originator and creator of images and then with its substantial and ontogenetic motion it achieves its higher level of perception, i.e. rational perception, unites with the rational non-material substance named ...

philosophical – theological research the quarterly journal of qom university under the supervision of the vice – president for research vol. 15,  no. 2, winter 2013.  proprietor: university of qom chief director: muhammad zabihi. ph.d chief editor: ahmad beheshti, ph.d   board of writers ahmad beheshti, ph.d; gholam-hossein ebrahimi dinani, ph.d; mohsen javadi, ph.d; hojatoleslam sadeq larigani...

Dawkins’s concept of the meme pool, essentially equivalent to Popper’s World 3, is considered as an expression in modern terms for what Averroës knew as the active intellect, an immortal entity feeding into, or even creating, the passive intellect of consciousness. A means is thus provided for reconciling a materialist Darwinian view of the universe with a conception of nonpersonal immortality....

creativity or uncreativity of the rational soul is one of the oldest problem of philosophy. ibn sina by giving some proofs has proven the creativity of the rational soul. fakhr ad-din ar razi has propsed several critics to each of the avecina’s argument. in this article, we are going to prove that, the origin of razi’s critics is his misunderstanding in ibn sina’s philosophical views in potenti...