Ayeneh Ma‘refat
Year:2015 | Volume:14 | Issue:41|Papers Count:10

The present article is an attempt to clarify Mirdamad’s views on ‘existence’ and ‘quiddity’ and the relationship between the two. To this end, this great philosopher’s explicit view on ‘the fundamental reality of quiddity’ and meaning, the ontological position of ‘existence’ and ‘quiddity’, the bases upon which one can posit the mentally-based position of existence and the real nature of fundamentally real quiddity are clarified.....

The Stoic philosophers who promoted their views in Athens soon after Aristotle, accepted the causation theory and made it the major principle in their physical and ethical philosophy but not in an Aristotelian sense. Not only was their definition and conception of causation different, nor did they accept the four causes….

The basic foundations of a government and the attitude toward these foundations make distinctions among governments. One of these foundations is anthropology which is the focus of the present paper. An attempt is made to delineate the different methods of anthropology, the aspects and levels of human existence and their impact on the laws of a theocratic government, its rulers and its people.....

According to Avicenna and Abolbarakate-Baghdadi, spatial movement is the oldest variety of movements. Avicenna sees spatial movement as the one which exclusively moves on a straight line so he does not consider circular movement as a type of spatial movement. His reason is that in circular movement the moving object’s components change their position in relation to the components of space but the moving object remains in its space altogether.....

The reformist discourse which is based on wisdom and the challenge of imitative ideas, as it is introduced by Seyed Jamal al-din and Muhammad Abduh in the Arab World, has been the impetus for some scholars to connect these two reformists to Mu’tazili rationalist ideas and argue for a Neo-Mutazili school of thought as a sign of the revival of Itizali thought. The present article attempts to first critically discuss the origins of the emergence of Neo-Mutazila.....

Nowadays the study of the relationship between science and religion is conditional to assuming a position with regard the issue of the origins of man. The relationship between Quranic teachings and empirical findings is an issue which has been dealt with by Allameh Tabatabai and Rashid Reza in commenting on Quranic verses focusing on Man and his origins.....

One of the most prominent features of the age of information and communication networks is the explosion of information and the development of new grounds for gaining access to information. Undoubtedly, the virtual world is one of the most important paths through which one can get access to data and information and as a result form beliefs….