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Volume & Issue: Volume 18, Issue 48, articles, September 2024, Pages 1-250 (Vol. 18, Issue 48 , Autumn 2024)
Number of Articles: 25
Is There A Post-Human Sexuality?
Volume 18, Issue 48 , September 2024, Pages 1-30
Abstract
Will human sexuality survive the passage to Artificial Intelligence? To answer this question properly, we should first analyze the paradoxical inner structure of sexuality itself, which ... Read More
Lifeworld, Place, and Phenomenology: Holistic and Dialectical Perspectives
Volume 18, Issue 48 , September 2024, Pages 31-52
Abstract
In this article, I clarify the phenomenological concept of lifeworld by drawing on the geographical themes of place, place experience, and place meaning. Most simply, lifeworld refers ... Read More
Science, Common Sense and Reality
Volume 18, Issue 48 , September 2024, Pages 53-66
Abstract
This paper advocates a realist position with respect to science and common sense. It considers the question of whether science provides knowledge of reality. It presents a positive ... Read More
Heidegger’s Topology from The Beginning: Dasein, Being, Place
Volume 18, Issue 48 , September 2024, Pages 67-80
Abstract
At the Le Thor Seminar in 1969, Heidegger characterises his thinking as taking the form of what he calls a ‘topology of being’ (Topologie des Seins) and as thereby giving ... Read More
Hegel’s Internal Engine – Free Energy Minimization at Play in the Phenomenology of Spirit
Volume 18, Issue 48 , September 2024, Pages 81-94
Abstract
This paper bridges contemporary neuroscience theories and Hegelian philosophy, centering on Karl Friston’s Free Energy Principle (FEP). Neuroscience models like the Bayesian brain ... Read More
Spring is in the Air A new philosophy of love
Volume 18, Issue 48 , September 2024, Pages 95-116
Abstract
The experience of our conscience belongs in the same category as feeling, thinking and wanting. However, it has a special aspect, namely the presence of other human beings as absolute ... Read More
Democracy and Information in the Age of Digitalization
Volume 18, Issue 48 , September 2024, Pages 117-132
Abstract
What is the state of democracy today? In the Western world, people often take the meaning of this term for granted, but do they genuinely know what democracy is? In this sense, how ... Read More
Whether Hegel is a Pantheist? Spinoza in Hegel’s Pantheism
Volume 18, Issue 48 , September 2024, Pages 133-146
Abstract
Does Hegel embrace pantheism? He faced accusations from his orthodox peers who adhered to Pantheism, a phrase that was commonly associated with atheism during his day. This study presents ... Read More
Is Ethical Religion Possible?
Volume 18, Issue 48 , September 2024, Pages 147-160
Abstract
The paper concentrates on the philosophical discourses of four thinkers – Soren Kierkegaard, M. K. Gandhi, R. D. Ranade and B. R. Ambedkar on Ethics and Religion. Soren Kierkegaard, ... Read More
Panentheism versus Pantheism in the East and West with Special Reference to Shankara and Ramanuja's Views: an overview
Volume 18, Issue 48 , September 2024, Pages 161-172
Abstract
Panentheism and pantheism represent one of the most profound, even startling parallels across the world’s great metaphysical traditions about which the present article seeks to ... Read More
Comparing Immanuel Kant's and Allamah Tabatabai's Approach to Money and Wealth
Volume 18, Issue 48 , September 2024, Pages 173-184
Abstract
Humans and human societies have different attitudes about the role and position of money and wealth. Some of them use all their efforts to earn money and wealth. In acquiring money ... Read More
Functional Fit and the Instrumental Character of Knowledge: Rethinking the Theory of Knowledge with Radical Constructivism
Volume 18, Issue 48 , September 2024, Pages 185-198
Abstract
Radical constructivism (RC), introduced by Ernst von Glasersfeld, is an instrumentalist theory of knowledge that challenges the notion of knowledge as a picture or representation of ... Read More
Analysis of the Basis and Arguments of the Theory of "Active Intellect" in Islamic Philosophy
Volume 18, Issue 48 , September 2024, Pages 199-216
Abstract
One of the influential topics in Islamic philosophy is the issue of "active intellect". This term has entered Islamic philosophy from Aristotle's philosophy and some interpreters of ... Read More
The Ontological Place of Invocation (du’a) from the Quranic and Islamic Gnosis Perspective
Volume 18, Issue 48 , September 2024, Pages 217-232
Abstract
The main aim of this article, which is to express the essence of duʼa, starts with a question: what is duʼa, and doesn't it constitute a gap in the system of causality and rational ... Read More
“Being that can be understood is language”: A Contemplation on the Implications of Gadamer’s Thesis Concerning Language
Volume 18, Issue 48 , September 2024, Pages 233-248
Abstract
Hans-Georg Gadamer, in his work Truth and Method, raises a controversial and thought-provoking argument regarding language and its relation to Being. He states that “Being that ... Read More
Comparing Martin Heidegger’s and Jalal Āl-e-Ahmad’s Views on Technology
Volume 18, Issue 48 , September 2024, Pages 249-260
Abstract
The present study aimed to compare Heidegger’s and Āl-e-Ahmad’s views on technology; first, the close relationship between subjectivism and modern technology was analyzed ... Read More
“Forego the reality of all the simple things”: On Object-Oriented Reality as Metaphorical Vortex in Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman
Volume 18, Issue 48 , September 2024, Pages 261-276
Abstract
This article examines Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman in the context of Object-Oriented Ontology, and argues that the novel transports the structural paradigm of reality ... Read More
Beauty and Neutrality in Alice Munro’s Selected Works: A Socio-Philosophical Reading of Lacanian Ethics
Volume 18, Issue 48 , September 2024, Pages 277-290
Abstract
Lacanian Beauty in his ethics is encapsulated as making decisions and “act[ing] in conformity with one’s desires”. This idea is thought while reading Munro’s ... Read More
Beyond Variability: A Causal Perspective on Basic Emotions
Volume 18, Issue 48 , September 2024, Pages 291-308
Abstract
This paper explores the debate between Basic Emotion Theory (BET) and Psychological Construction Theory (PCT) regarding the nature of emotions, focusing on the challenges PCT poses ... Read More
Camera or behind Camera: Ibn al-Haitham vis-à-vis Shaykh Ishraq on Vision
Volume 18, Issue 48 , September 2024, Pages 309-318
Abstract
Developing the empirical method based on observation and experiment, Alhazen is considered the greatest Muslim physicist and the most significant figure in the history of optics between ... Read More
Exploring the Grundnorm Dilemma: Can Pancasila be Considered the Grundnorm in the Context of ‘the Pure Theory of Law’?
Volume 18, Issue 48 , September 2024, Pages 319-338
Abstract
As formulated in the Preamble to the 1945 Constitution, Pancasila represents the core values agreed upon during the meetings of the Body of Investigators for Preparatory Efforts for ... Read More
The Functions of Preunderstandings in ʾAllāmah Ṭabāṭabāʾī’s Hermeneutics
Volume 18, Issue 48 , September 2024, Pages 339-360
Abstract
Drawing upon the hermeneutic basis that understanding and interpretation of a text is conditioned by the reader’s preunderstanding, this article examines ʾAllamah Ṭabāṭabāʾī’s ... Read More
Mystic Intoxication (Mastī) and the Meaning of Life: Fayḍ Kāshānī’s Mystic Poetry through the Lens of John Cottingham’s Philosophy
Volume 18, Issue 48 , September 2024, Pages 361-380
Abstract
Adopting a hermeneutic approach and horizontal and vertical interpretation methods, this study primarily explores the metaphysical concept of love-induced mystic intoxication in the ... Read More
Hegel, the Greeks and Subjectivity: the origins of modern liberty and the historical justification of liberalism
Volume 18, Issue 48 , September 2024, Pages 381-417
Abstract
Commentators oft cite the rather grand claim that for Hegel there was no concept of individual personality, subjectivity nor personal autonomy in Ancient Greece. Hegel’s claim ... Read More