Journal of Philosophical Investigations
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Explaining the relationship between art and nature in Schelling's philosophy
Explaining the relationship between art and nature in Schelling's philosophy

Roxana Riahi; Ali Moradkhani; Mohammad Shokri

Volume 15, Issue 35 , September 2021, , Pages 97-114

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2021.43136.2729

Abstract
  To achieve the common origin of "I" and nature, Schelling takes a new approach to the philosophy of nature; demonstrating the falsity of dualism between "I" and nature and showing how ...  Read More
Ethics Based on Primacy of Existence (Aṣālat al-Wujūd) with a Focus on Mullā Sadrā's Primacy of Existence
Ethics Based on Primacy of Existence (Aṣālat al-Wujūd) with a Focus on Mullā Sadrā's Primacy of Existence

Hossein Atrak; Manouchehr Shaminejad

Volume 17, Issue 45 , December 2023, , Pages 99-115

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2024.59945.3668

Abstract
  This research endeavors to introduce a novel concept in ethics, namely ethics based on the primacy of existence, drawing upon Aṣālat al-wujūd, the theory of the primacy of existence ...  Read More
Comparative Comparison of Self-control and Piety from the Perspective of Psychology and Islamic Education
Comparative Comparison of Self-control and Piety from the Perspective of Psychology and Islamic Education

Somayyeh Ram

Volume 16, Issue 41 , January 2023, , Pages 102-119

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.52517.3290

Abstract
  The main Purpose of this study is to explore the Nature of piety from an anthropological perspective by reflecting on the Qur'an and comparing piety construct with self-control. Methodologically, ...  Read More
A Reflection on Kristeva's Approach to the Structure of 'Language'
A Reflection on Kristeva's Approach to the Structure of 'Language'

Vahid Nejad Mohammad; Mahmood Soufiani; Massoud Yaghoubi-Notash

Volume 11, Issue 21 , December 2017, , Pages 109-118

Abstract
  Reaching out to history and subject in terms of meaning variation, Kristeva could show that language cannot simply be a Saussurean sign system. Rather, she went on to delineate that ...  Read More
Socrates-Plato's Ethical System and the Critique of Sophistic Morality in Classical Greece
Socrates-Plato's Ethical System and the Critique of Sophistic Morality in Classical Greece

Alireza Shafieyoun; Hossein Kalbasi Ashtari

Volume 17, Issue 43 , August 2023, , Pages 112-131

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2021.47877.2962

Abstract
  Greek society was in the search for virtues and prosperity, at the end. In their traditional teachings, only the virtues obtained from the gods' attention and related to society were ...  Read More
Comparison of “Simple Reality” Rule and the Mystical Phrase
Comparison of “Simple Reality” Rule and the Mystical Phrase "The essence of God is oneness in his essence, everything in the names"

Mahdi Saadatmand; Ali Babaei

Volume 15, Issue 35 , September 2021, , Pages 115-133

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2021.44226.2752

Abstract
  “Simple reality” rule states the relation of its true instance, that is, God to the universe. The similarity of this relationship in transcendent wisdom and mysticism, and ...  Read More
The Deficits of Scientific Scepticism: Revisiting the Higher Values of Contextualistic Pluralism in Justification of Truth and Knowledge Claims
The Deficits of Scientific Scepticism: Revisiting the Higher Values of Contextualistic Pluralism in Justification of Truth and Knowledge Claims

Anthony Etuk

Volume 17, Issue 45 , December 2023, , Pages 116-127

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2024.57961.3587

Abstract
  Scientific scepticism, fundamentally, questions the veracity and epistemic value of claims not supported by scientific evidence. Motivated by the assumption that only the empirical ...  Read More
Three Motions based on Mullā Sadrā's Three Philosophical Journeys: Natural Motion, Substantive Motion, Renewal of Likes
Three Motions based on Mullā Sadrā's Three Philosophical Journeys: Natural Motion, Substantive Motion, Renewal of Likes

Ali Babaei; Seyed Mokhtar Mousavi

Volume 16, Issue 38 , May 2022, , Pages 119-153

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2021.45165.2783

Abstract
  It is recognized by scholars that Mullā Sadrā has three philosophical journeys: Fundamentality of quiddity, Fundamentality of existence on gradational unite, and Fundamentality of ...  Read More
The Human Soul Is Immaterial
The Human Soul Is Immaterial

Mahdi Golshani

Volume 16, Issue 41 , January 2023, , Pages 120-132

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2021.48727.3032

Abstract
  Since old times the two dimensionalities of human beings, i.e., their having a material body and an immaterial soul (spirit), has been a controversial problem. In the Abrahamic religions, ...  Read More
“Everything is Full of Gods”; Theologia - Muthologia and the Beginning of the Ancient Greek Political Thought
“Everything is Full of Gods”; Theologia - Muthologia and the Beginning of the Ancient Greek Political Thought

Mahdi Fayyaz; Rouhollah Eslami; Hossein Athari; Mohammad Ali Taghavi

Volume 17, Issue 45 , December 2023, , Pages 128-146

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2024.59262.3638

Abstract
  The primary objective of this article is to elucidate that a comprehensive understanding of Greek political thought necessitates an examination of its origins in Ancient Greece. Traditional ...  Read More
The Influence of Kant’s Epistemology on Kierkegaard
The Influence of Kant’s Epistemology on Kierkegaard

Soroush Saberi; Ali Karbasizadeh Isfahani

Volume 17, Issue 43 , August 2023, , Pages 132-152

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.51079.3170

Abstract
  There could be various comparative studies between Kant and Kierkegaard on fields like human knowledge, ethics, faith, art, etc. This paper aims to compare the two philosopher’s ...  Read More
Frommian Biophilic Ethics in Tolstoy’s The death of Ivan Ilyich
Frommian Biophilic Ethics in Tolstoy’s The death of Ivan Ilyich

Ahad Mehrvand; Naser Karmatfar

Volume 16, Issue 41 , January 2023, , Pages 133-147

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2021.47628.2949

Abstract
  Ilene Philipson, the Californian born sociologist and licensed psychologist, asserts that Erich Fromm is the second widely read psychoanalyst in the world standing after Freud. Fromm ...  Read More
Reflective Judgment's Potentials in the Formation of Juridical Nature in Kant
Reflective Judgment's Potentials in the Formation of Juridical Nature in Kant

Ali Salmani; Saeed Hajrashidian

Volume 15, Issue 35 , September 2021, , Pages 134-158

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2021.38021.2501

Abstract
  Perhaps one of the most pivotal ideas of Kant which connects all of the periods of his continuous intellectual work is the idea of the nature as the whole. According to Kant the nature ...  Read More
A Review of the Theory of
A Review of the Theory of "The Spirit of Meaning" with Emphasis on Al-Ghazali's Point of View

Ahmad Fazeli; Hediye Omidzamani

Volume 17, Issue 45 , December 2023, , Pages 147-158

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.57943.3585

Abstract
  Considering the fact that the words in the intra-religious attitude are considered in two ways, the first is towards jurisprudential words and the second is a rational and conceptual ...  Read More
Rene Descartes’s Cogito Argument Reconsidered
Rene Descartes’s Cogito Argument Reconsidered

Sajjad Amirkhani Shahraki; Ahad Faramarz Gharamaleki; Abdolrasoul Kashfi

Volume 16, Issue 41 , January 2023, , Pages 148-163

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2020.39955.2562

Abstract
  Asking from the truth of Cogito as the basis of knowledge, this paper tries to analyze all possible answers in Descartes’ philosophy. Inductively, four possible answers are open ...  Read More
From Functionalism to Embodiment in Philosophy of Mind
From Functionalism to Embodiment in Philosophy of Mind

Tohid Hadinejad; Mahdi Behniafar

Volume 17, Issue 43 , August 2023, , Pages 153-175

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.49508.3084

Abstract
  In recent decades, Functionalism has become a standard approach towards philosophy of mind and cognitive science, Functionalism is inspired by computer science and against prior theories ...  Read More
Naturalism or Ontological Significance? Physicalism and Fundamental Mentality: a historical approach
Naturalism or Ontological Significance? Physicalism and Fundamental Mentality: a historical approach

Hamed Bikaraan-Behesht

Volume 16, Issue 38 , May 2022, , Pages 154-185

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.47592.2948

Abstract
  Most physicalists believe that physicalism is a thesis that denies the existence of fundamental mentality either as a substance or as a property. Therefore, since most physicalists ...  Read More
Hermeneutic Approach to Quantum Learning
Hermeneutic Approach to Quantum Learning

Ehsan Sabaghi Noushabadi; Hassan Rastegarpour; Majid AliAsgari

Volume 15, Issue 35 , September 2021, , Pages 159-181

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2021.46891.2895

Abstract
  This paper aims to discover the key components of quantum theory in learning through hermeneutic research method. Quantum theory is exactly against the theory of simplicity. While the ...  Read More
An Evaluation of Kant’s Transcendental Idealism Using the Inversion Theory of Truth
An Evaluation of Kant’s Transcendental Idealism Using the Inversion Theory of Truth

Peter Lugten

Volume 17, Issue 45 , December 2023, , Pages 159-174

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.57752.3578

Abstract
  This paper examines the work of Immanuel Kant in the light of a new theory on the nature of truth, knowledge and falsehood (the Inversion Theory of Truth). Kant’s idea that knowledge ...  Read More
Coincident Objects and The Grounding Problem
Coincident Objects and The Grounding Problem

Ataollah Hashemi

Volume 16, Issue 41 , January 2023, , Pages 164-173

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.49651.3095

Abstract
  Pluralists believe in the occurrence of numerically distinct spatiotemporally coincident objects. They argue that there are coincident objects that share all physical and spatiotemporal ...  Read More
Online Forums Can Alleviate the Care Crisis
Online Forums Can Alleviate the Care Crisis

Mahdi Khalili; Saeedeh Babaei

Volume 16, Issue 41 , January 2023, , Pages 174-188

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.44055.2747

Abstract
  In the context of the care crisis in modern medicine, the existential needs of patients are not sufficiently satisfied. One idea to address the crisis is that physicians should be educated ...  Read More
Analytical Study of the Role of the Industry of Religion of Ibn Khaldun, Discipline and Technology of the Self of Foucault in Power Domination
Analytical Study of the Role of the Industry of Religion of Ibn Khaldun, Discipline and Technology of the Self of Foucault in Power Domination

Gholamreza Mansouri

Volume 17, Issue 45 , December 2023, , Pages 175-190

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.56104.3511

Abstract
  In some point of view, neither Michel Foucault nor Ibn Khaldun are considered philosophers in the conventional classifications, but both are very  important in intellectual and, ...  Read More
Analytical Investigation of Herder's Bildung Idea and Inference of the Conceptual Components of Education Based on It
Analytical Investigation of Herder's Bildung Idea and Inference of the Conceptual Components of Education Based on It

Masoud Pirouti‌ Aghdam; Seyyed Jalal Hashemi; Seyyed Mansour Maraashi; Masoud Safaei Moghadam

Volume 17, Issue 43 , August 2023, , Pages 176-198

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.54253.3413

Abstract
  This study aimed to analyze the concept of Bildung, which is based on Herder's concept. Accordingly, it is possible to provide new conceptual components for the education system. Herder ...  Read More
Positive Freedom and Liberalism in Kant's Political Philosophy
Positive Freedom and Liberalism in Kant's Political Philosophy

Ali Abedi Renani; Faez Dinparast

Volume 15, Issue 35 , September 2021, , Pages 182-202

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2021.44117.2748

Abstract
  The subject of this article is the analysis of the concept of freedom as one of the fundamental issues of political thought in Kant’s philosophy. Given Isaiah Berlin’s typology ...  Read More
The  Problem
The Problem "I" in Galen Strawson

Elaheh Khoshzaban; Zahra Khazaei

Volume 16, Issue 38 , May 2022, , Pages 186-213

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2021.47414.2938

Abstract
  One of the topics in the philosophy of mind is the discussion of "I", which philosophers have referred to in various interpretations as "The self", "personal identity", "ego", "soul" ...  Read More