Ayeneh Ma‘refat
Year:2014 | Volume:14 | Issue:38|Papers Count:9

One of Avicenna’s attempts with regard to the possibility of knowledge for man is the delineation of the process of knowledge and its stages. The possibility of knowledge, from Avicenna’s point of view, is based on a realistic relationship between the immediately known and the indirectly known.....

Farabi considers justice in the three domains of genesis, society and individual being and in all three pays close attention to moderation. In his view, moderation, in genesis, means giving existence to creatures based on eligibility, in society, it means the distribution of common good based on individuals’ merits and, in relation to morality, it means respect for the mean or the middle......

Causation has always been with man from the time of his creation for the simple reason that, as a thinking creature, he has been thinking about almost everything seeking the origins of their genesis. This can be considered as the source of his progress in the sciences leading to the improvement of life on earth....

Cosmology, defined as the understanding of the real nature of the universe, is one of the most important philosophical topics. In spite of the fact that a lot of researchers have not considered Naser Khosro as a philosopher, his works are full of ideas and assumptions which refer to the why of the universe and his interpretation of creation and resurrection.....

The works of Sadr al-Muta’allehin Shirāzi, widely known as Mullā Sadrā, offer readers an opportunity to have different readings of the concept ‘religion’ because his definition of religion sometimes suggests ‘surrender’, in certain occasions ‘faith’ and at times the ‘Divine law’. None of these definitions and readings are exempt from certain considerations.....

The doctrine of the mean is a version of the virtue ethics theories which were originally introduced by Plato and Aristotle. This theory because of its compatibility with Islamic texts is the most prevalent theory of ethics among Islamic scholars. Farabi, Miskawayh, Avicenna, Nasir al-Din Tusi, Mullsadra and others have been influenced by this theory.....

Drawing upon the views of some Muslim philosophers, social guidance activists and psychology and education authority figures who attribute the root of many societal problems, perversities and calamities to the self and its refinement and cultivation, the present paper aims at investigating refinement and self-purification from Avicenna’s viewpoint adopting an analytical-deductive method....