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Volume & Issue: Volume 17, Issue 45, articles, December 2023, Pages 1-360 (Vol. 17, Issue 45 (Winter 2023))
Number of Articles: 25
The Objectivity of Science
Volume 17, Issue 45 , December 2023, Pages 1-10
Abstract
The idea that science is objective, or able to achieve objectivity, is in large part responsible for the role that science plays within society. But what is objectivity? The idea of ... Read More
Fichte’s Role in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, Chapter 4
Volume 17, Issue 45 , December 2023, Pages 11-28
Abstract
In this paper I return to the familiar territory of the Lord-Bondsman "dialectic" in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit in order to raise the question of the relation of Hegel's use of ... Read More
What a World! The Pluralistic Universe of Innocent Realism
Volume 17, Issue 45 , December 2023, Pages 29-35
Abstract
The method of metaphysics: Metaphysics is empirical but depends not, like the sciences, on recondite experience but on close attention to aspects of everyday experience we ordinarily ... Read More
Rewriting Heidegger
Volume 17, Issue 45 , December 2023, Pages 36-59
Abstract
Two traps currently ensnare Heideggerian scholarship: the “language trap” and the “being trap”. To avoid them, the text argues we should follow Heidegger’s ... Read More
Love, On the Univocity of Rawls’s Difference Principle
Volume 17, Issue 45 , December 2023, Pages 60-71
Abstract
A double ambiguity has been charged against Rawls’s difference principle (DP). Is it Maximin, Leximin, or something else? Usually, following A. Sen, scholars identify DP with ... Read More
Image, Time, and Photography Based on Heidegger’s Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics
Volume 17, Issue 45 , December 2023, Pages 72-89
Abstract
In Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics (KPM), Heidegger shows how the initial image-making power of the imagination is pictorial in the pure image of time. He further clarifies the ... Read More
Philosophical-Psychological Approach to Culture and Education
Volume 17, Issue 45 , December 2023, Pages 90-98
Abstract
Education is a continually developing activity, it shapes the way an individual develops their attitudes, thoughts and behavior. Education is not just about being literate but it is ... Read More
Ethics Based on Primacy of Existence (Aṣālat al-Wujūd) with a Focus on Mullā Sadrā's Primacy of Existence
Volume 17, Issue 45 , December 2023, Pages 99-115
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
The Deficits of Scientific Scepticism: Revisiting the Higher Values of Contextualistic Pluralism in Justification of Truth and Knowledge Claims
Volume 17, Issue 45 , December 2023, Pages 116-127
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
“Everything is Full of Gods”; Theologia - Muthologia and the Beginning of the Ancient Greek Political Thought
Volume 17, Issue 45 , December 2023, Pages 128-146
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
A Review of the Theory of "The Spirit of Meaning" with Emphasis on Al-Ghazali's Point of View
Volume 17, Issue 45 , December 2023, Pages 147-158
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
An Evaluation of Kant’s Transcendental Idealism Using the Inversion Theory of Truth
Volume 17, Issue 45 , December 2023, Pages 159-174
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
Analytical Study of the Role of the Industry of Religion of Ibn Khaldun, Discipline and Technology of the Self of Foucault in Power Domination
Volume 17, Issue 45 , December 2023, Pages 175-190
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
A Dialectic Approach to the Conception of Beauty and the Natural Aesthetics: an interdisciplinary perspective in focus
Volume 17, Issue 45 , December 2023, Pages 191-202
Abstract
Nature has aesthetics of its own, what can provoke the human mind into better recognizing the concept of beauty via mental perception. As such, human mind can interact with the nonverbal ... Read More
Memory as a Mass-Based Graph: Towards a Conceptual Framework for the Simulation Model of Human Memory in Al
Volume 17, Issue 45 , December 2023, Pages 203-214
Abstract
There are two approaches for simulating memory as well as learning in artificial intelligence; the functionalistic approach and the cognitive approach. The necessary condition to put ... Read More
Beyond Metanarratives and Universal Ideologies: Exploring Postmodernist Educational Concepts for Autonomy in Iranian EFL Context
Volume 17, Issue 45 , December 2023, Pages 215-230
Abstract
Postmodernism represents skepticism toward metanarratives and universal ideologies that dominated the modernist era. The study focuses on three key postmodernist concepts - alternative ... Read More
Rethinking The Lockean Approach to The Problem of Personal Identity
Volume 17, Issue 45 , December 2023, Pages 231-249
Abstract
The problem of personal identity among others may stem from the following question—what does be the person that you are, from one day to the next, necessarily consist of? The ... Read More
The Dēnkard VI: ‘Consequentialism’ and ‘Capitalism’ as Well as Paymān (The ancient Iranian ‘golden mean’)
Volume 17, Issue 45 , December 2023, Pages 250-266
Abstract
Dēnkard (Acts of the religion), written in Pahlavi, is a summary of 10th-century knowledge of the Mazdean religion and is described by Jean de Menasce on the title page of his ... Read More
Transcending Otherness: Overcoming Obstacles in the Mystical Journey in Shabestarī’s Rose Garden of Mystery
Volume 17, Issue 45 , December 2023, Pages 267-282
Abstract
This study explores the distinguished Persian Sufi mystic Shaykh Maḥmūd Shabestarī’s Golshan-e Rāz, or The Rose Garden of Mystery. Adopting a hermeneutic approach, it scrutinizes ... Read More
Fardid and Nasr on the Confrontation of Western World
Volume 17, Issue 45 , December 2023, Pages 283-299
Abstract
Regarding the way of facing the West and modernity, Ahmed Fardid is among the thinkers who, by adopting a philosophical and judgmental approach, rejects modernity, philosophy, and western ... Read More
Commonalities of the Abrahamic Religions in the Worldview of Science: Metaphysical Presuppositions of Science
Volume 17, Issue 45 , December 2023, Pages 300-316
Abstract
The Abrahamic religions include the three monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. All of these religions consider Abraham as their ancestor, and they consider science ... Read More
Beyond the Bodily View and Psychological View of Human Beings: Human Beings are Rational Animals
Volume 17, Issue 45 , December 2023, Pages 317-329
Abstract
We are... So, to reframe the inquiry: who are we on a metaphysical level? Which aspects of ourselves are the most universally representative of who we are? How do we fare in the face ... Read More
The Philosophy of Teacher Immunity: EFL Teachers’ Perspectives
Volume 17, Issue 45 , December 2023, Pages 330-346
Abstract
Teacher factors encompass the teachers’ cognitive and affective characteristics that are likely to affect their instructional efficacy. Language teacher immunity is one of the ... Read More
Flourishing and Essential Capacities
Volume 17, Issue 45 , December 2023, Pages 347-360
Abstract
I have previously argued that human flourishing partly consists in the ability to exercise essential human capacities, many of which are non-distinctive and shared with other animals. ... Read More