Journal of Philosophical Investigations
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Rereading Mulla Sadra's Personality Theory from the Perspective of Allport's Trait Personality Theory
Rereading Mulla Sadra's Personality Theory from the Perspective of Allport's Trait Personality Theory

Maryam Ahmadi; Sahar Kavandi; Mohsen Jahed; Javad Salehi

Volume 17, Issue 44 , November 2023, , Pages 21-44

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.54945.3454

Abstract
  Anthropology in psychology under the title of "personality theories" has been able to be effective in the field of behavioral studies and interpersonal relationships. The need to explain ...  Read More
Ways to Reach the Supreme Being in Mullah Sadra's Thought
Ways to Reach the Supreme Being in Mullah Sadra's Thought

Mokhtar Arhami; Saeed Geravand; Mansour İmanpour

Volume 17, Issue 44 , November 2023, , Pages 45-62

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.52506.3288

Abstract
  In Mullah Sadra's thought and transcendental wisdom, ways have been introduced to reach the supreme truth, which is the ultimate goal of man in the process of self-perfection. These ...  Read More
Justifying Ockham’s Razor within Betz’s Theory of Dialectical Structures
Justifying Ockham’s Razor within Betz’s Theory of Dialectical Structures

Seyyed Mohammad Mahdi Etemadoleslami Bakhtiari

Volume 17, Issue 44 , November 2023, , Pages 63-88

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.53882.3389

Abstract
  According to Ockham’s razor, assumptions must not be unnecessarily multiplied. While this principle is widely accepted, its justification is controversial. More precisely, we ...  Read More
Linguisticality is not Merely Expressing the Experiences; the relationship between language and understanding according to Gadamer
Linguisticality is not Merely Expressing the Experiences; the relationship between language and understanding according to Gadamer

Abdollah Amini

Volume 17, Issue 44 , November 2023, , Pages 89-107

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.58041.3590

Abstract
  The focus of Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics is the issue of understanding, and more precisely, the way understanding occurs in our encounter with the world as a "text". Gadamer ...  Read More
The Evolutions of Science According to the Three Philosophical Journeys; the originality of nature, the originality of existence of gradational oneness and the originality of existence of personal oneness
The Evolutions of Science According to the Three Philosophical Journeys; the originality of nature, the originality of existence of gradational oneness and the originality of existence of personal oneness

Ali Babaei

Volume 17, Issue 44 , November 2023, , Pages 108-129

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.53905.3419

Abstract
  Mulla Sadra has experienced three philosophical journeys: the originality of nature, the originality of existence of gradational oneness and the originality of existence of personal ...  Read More
"Ethics of care", a Branch of Virtue Ethics or an Independent Approach in Ethics? a review of Michael Slote and Virginia Held's perspective

Esmaeel Biokafi; Ahmad Fazeli

Volume 17, Issue 44 , November 2023, , Pages 130-149

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.54474.3429

Abstract
  The ratio of ethics of care and ethics of virtue is one of the questions facing experts of ethics of care, the answer to which has important consequences for ethics of care. Michael ...  Read More
Sophia οf the Earth: Paintings of Shiraz-Behbahan School from Henry Corbin’s Phenomenological-Hermeneutical Point of View Referring to the Mazdeic Texts
Sophia οf the Earth: Paintings of Shiraz-Behbahan School from Henry Corbin’s Phenomenological-Hermeneutical Point of View Referring to the Mazdeic Texts

Monireh Panjtani; Mahdi Mohammadzadeh

Volume 17, Issue 44 , November 2023, , Pages 150-178

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.55014.3457

Abstract
  Focusing on five symbolic painting works from Golchin Asha’r of the Shiraz-Behbahan school dating back to 1398, the current study attempts to approach the world of meaning of ...  Read More
A Comparative Study of the Epistemological Origin of Philosophical concepts from the perspective of Hume and Allameh Tabatabai
A Comparative Study of the Epistemological Origin of Philosophical concepts from the perspective of Hume and Allameh Tabatabai

zahra Hatami Nemati; Hossein Nowrouzi; Seyyed Ebrahim Aghazadeh

Volume 17, Issue 44 , November 2023, , Pages 179-200

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.54889.3456

Abstract
  The review of the works and the writings of philosophers regarding the origin of philosophical concepts and the origin of the concepts and imaginations before it are indicative of the ...  Read More
A Critical Review of the Mainstream Reading of Kripke’s Wittgenstein: οn Misunderstanding Kripke’s Wittgenstein
A Critical Review of the Mainstream Reading of Kripke’s Wittgenstein: οn Misunderstanding Kripke’s Wittgenstein

Ali Hosseinkhani

Volume 17, Issue 44 , November 2023, , Pages 201-221

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.52482.3285

Abstract
  In this paper, I will argue against certain criticisms of Kripke’s Wittgenstein’s sceptical argument and sceptical solution, made especially by Baker and Hacker, McGinn, ...  Read More
Rhetoric and Its Relationship with Politics in Aristotle's Thought
Rhetoric and Its Relationship with Politics in Aristotle's Thought

Fatemeh Raygani; Ali F ath Taheri; Alinaqi Baghershahi; Meysam Sefidkhosh

Volume 17, Issue 44 , November 2023, , Pages 222-241

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.52677.3326

Abstract
  Rhetoric, being among five arts of logic (i.e., Sana’at Khams), is a persuasive yet uncertain art. However, philosophers consider it as a non-philosophical and invalid art. In ...  Read More
Explaining the Concepts of Substance, Attribute, and Mode in Spinoza's Philosophy Using the Opinions of Philosophers before Her (based on Wolfson's interpretation)
Explaining the Concepts of Substance, Attribute, and Mode in Spinoza's Philosophy Using the Opinions of Philosophers before Her (based on Wolfson's interpretation)

Javad Rabiee; Yousef Nozohour

Volume 17, Issue 44 , November 2023, , Pages 242-260

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.55832.3496

Abstract
  This article explores the concept of substance, attributes, and modes in Spinoza's "Ethics" by examining them through the perspectives of ancient Greek and medieval philosophers, as ...  Read More
Application of Treatment of Envy and Fear Based on Islamic Ethics in Logotherapy and CBT
Application of Treatment of Envy and Fear Based on Islamic Ethics in Logotherapy and CBT

Fatemeh Rahiminezhad; Raham Sharaf; Loghman Ebrahimi

Volume 17, Issue 44 , November 2023, , Pages 261-279

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.55857.3498

Abstract
  In Islamic ethics, it is very important to pay attention to the spiritual dimension of man and the role of moral vices in jeopardizing mental health. In this regard, Islamic sages have ...  Read More
Mullā Ṣadrā on the Reference of Philosophical Secondary Intelligibles
Mullā Ṣadrā on the Reference of Philosophical Secondary Intelligibles

Tayyebeh RezaeiRah; Bahram Alizadeh; Mahmoud YousofSani

Volume 17, Issue 44 , November 2023, , Pages 280-295

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.57819.3582

Abstract
  Mullā Ṣadrā offers two different views regarding the references of the philosophical secondary intelligibles. According to the first view, philosophical secondary intelligibles ...  Read More
Architecture and Eloquence; Re-reading of
Architecture and Eloquence; Re-reading of "Changing Ideals in Modern Architecture 1750-1950" by Peter Collins, Based on Jacques Derrida's Strategy of Deconstruction

Hanieh Zendehbad; Mohammad Mansour Falamaki; Abdolkarim Rashidian; Shadi Azizi

Volume 17, Issue 44 , November 2023, , Pages 296-311

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.53906.3391

Abstract
  Only difference exist in the language‌. It should not be unheeded that it is the difference which usually determines affirmative phrases where difference is counterbalanced in their ...  Read More
The Emergence of the Absolute by Genius in the Work of Art in Schelling's Early Philosophy of Art
The Emergence of the Absolute by Genius in the Work of Art in Schelling's Early Philosophy of Art

Ali Salmani; Sepehr Salimi

Volume 17, Issue 44 , November 2023, , Pages 312-329

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.55906.3499

Abstract
  Schelling's goal is to find a total consciousness for human; therefore, in the philosophy of nature, he tries to reach from the real to the ideal. On the other hand, the conscious spirit ...  Read More
A Reflection on Rorty's Claim about Religion: religion as a conversation stopper
A Reflection on Rorty's Claim about Religion: religion as a conversation stopper

Nabiollah Soleimani

Volume 17, Issue 44 , November 2023, , Pages 330-353

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.53693.3377

Abstract
  Rorty claims that metaphysicians and religious scholars agree with the separation of the public sphere (politics) from the private sphere (religion). While metaphysicians try to find ...  Read More
A Freudian-Lacanian Interpretation of Formation Process of Plato's Metaphysics
A Freudian-Lacanian Interpretation of Formation Process of Plato's Metaphysics

Ali Sanaee

Volume 17, Issue 44 , November 2023, , Pages 354-371

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.56987.3555

Abstract
  This article deals with the imaginary and symbolic function of the psyche, and the Real as the main categories of Lacan's thought, which was achieved by the logical extension of Freud's ...  Read More
A Critical Study of Thomas Nagel's View on Absurdity
A Critical Study of Thomas Nagel's View on Absurdity

Vahid Sohrabifar

Volume 17, Issue 44 , November 2023, , Pages 372-389

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.51591.3209

Abstract
  One of the crucial debates on the meaning of life is the question of absurdity. Is life of human beings has a unifying, valuable, and purposeful ground? one of the thinkers who present ...  Read More
The Perfection of Humanity and Its Realationship with Definition of Humanity from Mulla Sadra's Point of View
The Perfection of Humanity and Its Realationship with Definition of Humanity from Mulla Sadra's Point of View

Morteza Shajari

Volume 17, Issue 44 , November 2023, , Pages 390-408

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.57241.3566

Abstract
  Various definitions of humanity have been expressed in Islamic culture; Such as a physical substance with a duty, a talking animal, a single soul, an animal in love, and a living being; ...  Read More
An Analysis on Foucault's View on the Relationship between  Metaphilosophy and Modernity
An Analysis on Foucault's View on the Relationship between Metaphilosophy and Modernity

Malek Shojaei

Volume 17, Issue 44 , November 2023, , Pages 409-424

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.58859.3616

Abstract
  Michel Foucault (1926-1984), a French postmodern philosopher, has reflected on the nature of philosophy and its relationship with modernity in his various books. This article is based ...  Read More
Evaluation of the Argument of
Evaluation of the Argument of "Unconceived Alternatives" from the Perspective of Bhaskar's Critical Realism

Amir Sharifipour; Mostafa Taqavi; Maryam Poustforush

Volume 17, Issue 44 , November 2023, , Pages 425-447

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.56603.3536

Abstract
  Scientific realism has always faced continuous criticisms from scientific anti-realists. Kyle Stanford's "unconceived alternatives" argument can be seen as a late and troublesome version ...  Read More
How the Idea of the Language of Thought Is Evaluated by Wittgenstein?
How the Idea of the Language of Thought Is Evaluated by Wittgenstein?

Hossein Shaqaqi

Volume 17, Issue 44 , November 2023, , Pages 448-466

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.56365.3526

Abstract
  In Philosophical investigations, Wittgenstein criticizes many classical and contemporary philosophical theories about language. Here, with a brief presentation of what is called as ...  Read More
The Ideal Political System in Carl Schmitt’s Political Philosophy
The Ideal Political System in Carl Schmitt’s Political Philosophy

Mahdi Sadeghi AhangarKelaie; Saeed Eslami; Behrouz DeilamSalehi

Volume 17, Issue 44 , November 2023, , Pages 467-487

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.56825.3542

Abstract
  The issue of the nature of the state is one of the most important issues in political philosophy, and any interpretation of it will follow an interpretation of government ends, ideal ...  Read More
The Problem of Morality in Soft and Hard Legal Positivism
The Problem of Morality in Soft and Hard Legal Positivism

Ataollah Salehi; Mahdi Balavi

Volume 17, Issue 44 , November 2023, , Pages 488-506

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.59000.3627

Abstract
  The law is the reason and guide for human behavior; therefore, it is a normative social practice. But what conditions should a norm have to be called a law and what is its relationship ...  Read More
A Study of Distinctions between Meaningfulness of Life and Happiness from the Point of View of Thaddeus Metz
A Study of Distinctions between Meaningfulness of Life and Happiness from the Point of View of Thaddeus Metz

Mahdi Sanei; Eynollah Khademi; AmirHossein MansouriNouri; Mohsen Hosseini

Volume 17, Issue 44 , November 2023, , Pages 507-528

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.52791.3336

Abstract
  Thaddeus Metz has tried to show that the meaning in life, like morality and happiness, is one of the normative categories of life and emphasizes the distinction between the meaning ...  Read More