Philosophy
Seyed Mostafa Shahraeeni; Azizeh Zirak Baroogi
Volume 18, Issue 7 , December 2018, , Pages 135-157
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The present article deals with introducing and critically studying the book Descartes Embodied: Reading Cartesian Philosophy through Cartesian Science by Daniel Garber. Garber, one of the most prominent researchers of modern philosophy and contemporary Descartes-scholar, wrote the book in 1980, ...
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The present article deals with introducing and critically studying the book Descartes Embodied: Reading Cartesian Philosophy through Cartesian Science by Daniel Garber. Garber, one of the most prominent researchers of modern philosophy and contemporary Descartes-scholar, wrote the book in 1980, and it was published by Cambridge University Press. This work has been released in French, yet there is no Persian translation available. It is a collection of articles written separately by author and published in credible philosophical journals. The unifying subject of the articles is the relationship between Descartes’ philosophical and scientific areas of interest.This article intends to introduce the author and covers the literary style of the book in English in brief. The article mainly addresses the introduction and critical analysis of the book itself, in two parts successively: form and content.This article intends to introduce the author and covers the literary style of the book in English in brief. The article mainly addresses the introduction and critical analysis of the book itself, in two parts successively: form and content.
Philosophy
Maryam Saneapour; Amir Sadeghi
Volume 18, Issue 7 , December 2018, , Pages 159-180
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This article introduces, analyzes, and criticizes the work of Lawrence M. Hinman, Ethics: A Pluralistic Approach to Moral Theory. Hinman is a Philosopher of Ethics in the multimedia learning. He believes that multiculturalism is important factor of nowadays so the most important responsibility of ...
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This article introduces, analyzes, and criticizes the work of Lawrence M. Hinman, Ethics: A Pluralistic Approach to Moral Theory. Hinman is a Philosopher of Ethics in the multimedia learning. He believes that multiculturalism is important factor of nowadays so the most important responsibility of philosophers of Ethics is prevention of moral conflict. The global communication and information in 21st century needs global tolerance and respect of various nations, cultures, and moralities together because different people and societies have a common human nature and common natural rights that obligate to justice and moral relationship between different people and various societies’ beliefs throughout the world. Moral communication in multiculturalism approach is against racial, gender, national, and ethnic prejudice. Hinman believes in moral dialogue and global learning across different cultures. The book of Ethics: A Pluralistic Approach to Moral Theory has a proper category of new ethical problems, and the candid standpoint of author is considerable. He has a logical method, and in the end of every part of book there are some questions for evaluation of students learning. So this book is proper for the philosophy of ethics in universities.
Philosophy
Majid Sadrmajles
Volume 18, Issue 7 , December 2018, , Pages 181-199
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In the present paper, we first briefly introduce the book Routledge History of Philosophy: From the Beginning to Plato. Its Persian translation was written by Hasan Mortazawi and published in Iran in 1390(2011)by Philosophy Cheshme Press. After the introductory matters, the present paper focuses on two ...
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In the present paper, we first briefly introduce the book Routledge History of Philosophy: From the Beginning to Plato. Its Persian translation was written by Hasan Mortazawi and published in Iran in 1390(2011)by Philosophy Cheshme Press. After the introductory matters, the present paper focuses on two aspects: the formal aspect of printed translation and 2- the content of Persian translation. Of course this study of the Persian translation is based on the original English text and a comparison between them.On the formal aspect, I consider factors such as title, order and completion, or deficiency of translation. At the content level of the Persian translation in comparison with the original text, I consider factors as printing errors, names’ spelling in Persian, fluency, and validity of the translation text. The result of this study demonstrates that the Persian translation of the first volume of Routledge History of Philosophy: From the Beginning to Plato is subjected to some unwanted deficiencies. Some other pitfalls include 1- Sometimes the Persian spelling of the special names especially Greek names is not exact or correct. 2- Some of the philosophical terms are not translated in uniformity. 3- The text of Persian translation is not edited by an editor that is expected to be a specialist in the ancient Greek philosophy4- Translator’s nonsufficient acquaintance with the Greek philosophy. Translation of philosophical works as other subjects in theoretical disciplines is a technical work and in addition to the skills of writing and grammar, the editor needs to have special information of the subject matter. It is hoped that the recommendations of this paper help Mr. H. Mortazawi in revising his translation in the second edition.
Philosophy
Yahya Solati
Volume 18, Issue 7 , December 2018, , Pages 201-217
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The present article criticizes the book “Phenomenology and Mysticism” by Anthony J. Steinbock. The writer has tried to identify religious and mystical experiences by the use of phenomenological’s style and helping from concepts such as “evidence”, “phenomenological’s ...
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The present article criticizes the book “Phenomenology and Mysticism” by Anthony J. Steinbock. The writer has tried to identify religious and mystical experiences by the use of phenomenological’s style and helping from concepts such as “evidence”, “phenomenological’s reduction” and “intention”. Steinbock’s main concern is to consider the reaction between the phenomenology and theology to make a connection and relation among the vast range of religious beliefs with philosophical problems such as “evidence”, “selfhood”, and “otherness”. Lack of stability in his point of view, inability in sufficient analysis, contradiction in terms, etc. weaken his attitude in this book. Furthermore, this book contains problems in content and writing considered as a serious downsides of the book
Philosophy
Behnaz Aghili Dehkordi; Hossein Kalbasi Ashtari
Volume 18, Issue 7 , December 2018, , Pages 219-238
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Deleuze's philosophical commentary on Spinoza is a critically important work because its conclusions provide the foundations for Deleuze's later metaphysical speculations on the nature of power, the body, difference and singularities. Deleuze and Spinoza is the first book to examine Deleuze's ...
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Deleuze's philosophical commentary on Spinoza is a critically important work because its conclusions provide the foundations for Deleuze's later metaphysical speculations on the nature of power, the body, difference and singularities. Deleuze and Spinoza is the first book to examine Deleuze's philosophical assessment of Spinoza and appraise his arguments concerning the Absolute, the philosophy of mind, epistemology and moral and political philosophy. The author respects and disagrees with Deleuze the philosopher and suggests that his arguments not only lead to eliminativism and a Hobbesian politics, but also they cast a mystifying spell. Opposed to feminist philosophers who find Deleuze's theories practical for the third wave feminism, Gillian Howie proposes that a turning to Marxism and critical theory would be an answer.
Philosophy
Hassan Fathi
Volume 18, Issue 7 , December 2018, , Pages 239-251
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Islamic philosophy in its first formation has been widely influenced by Christian philosophy. After several centuries, however, Islamic world takes the upper hand, and Islamic scientific and philosophical school influenced the Christian ones, especially and intensely in so-called Scholastic era. The ...
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Islamic philosophy in its first formation has been widely influenced by Christian philosophy. After several centuries, however, Islamic world takes the upper hand, and Islamic scientific and philosophical school influenced the Christian ones, especially and intensely in so-called Scholastic era. The most influencing figure, from this point of view, was Avicenna. Avicenna’s Influence on Duns Scotus’ Philosophy, by Mahdi Abbaszade, intends to expose an example of the aforesaid influences, as a case study: Avicennna’s on Duns Scotus. Abbaszade’s book is relatively comprehensive and very informative. Dr Abbaszade could have a better work by seeing all of scotus’ philosophical writings, and by refraining from some prejudices and exaggerations.
Philosophy
Saba Fadavi; Mohyeddin Ghanbari
Volume 18, Issue 7 , December 2018, , Pages 253-272
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The critique and analysis of preconception, origin, and theory to solve the paradoxical of mystical experience in the logic and subjective or objective experience are the purpose for this study Mysticism and Philosophy by Walter Terence Stace (1967). In this book, mystical experience and mysticism ...
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The critique and analysis of preconception, origin, and theory to solve the paradoxical of mystical experience in the logic and subjective or objective experience are the purpose for this study Mysticism and Philosophy by Walter Terence Stace (1967). In this book, mystical experience and mysticism with philosophical empiricism have been linked, and mystical experience is beyond the logical understanding, but after Stace’s proposition of the theory of fuzzy logic, the possibility of revision for these results has provided. Other criticisms leveled against this book are Stace's contradictory preconceptions for possibility to understand the realities of mysticism with his emphasis on having a philosophical attitude towards the subject, and with regard to Stace’s essentialist attitude as well as the influence of other variables on mystical experience which haveunbalanced his attention to main processing to Christian and Buddhist mystical traditions compared with Jewish mysticism and mystical Islam.
Philosophy
Hamidreza Mahboobi Arani
Volume 18, Issue 7 , December 2018, , Pages 273-287
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Philosophers defend theories of what well-being is but ignore what psychologists have learned about it. Psychologists learn about well-being but lack a theory of what it is. In The Good Life: Unifying the Philosophy and Psychology of Well-Being, Michael A. Bishop marries these complementary investigations ...
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Philosophers defend theories of what well-being is but ignore what psychologists have learned about it. Psychologists learn about well-being but lack a theory of what it is. In The Good Life: Unifying the Philosophy and Psychology of Well-Being, Michael A. Bishop marries these complementary investigations under what he regards as an “inclusive approach” and the result is a new framework for understanding well-being and the good life, that is “the network theory”. This theory identifies well-being with instantiating a self-sustaining network of positive feelings, attitudes, behaviors, traits, and accomplishments: a positive causal network. When doing well, you are embedded in a self-reinforcing web of positive internal and external states and events; when doing badly, you are caught in a "rut" or "vicious cycle" of negative interactions. Well-being is not just one component of a positive causal network, such as pleasure, desire-fulfillment, or virtuous activity. Well-being is the network itself. The current paper introduces the book with an emphasis on these two main foci. Then, it conclude with some objections to both methodology and substantive aspect of theory which mainly concerns its power of normativity.
Philosophy
Majid Ma'aref; Hossein Taghipour
Volume 18, Issue 7 , December 2018, , Pages 289-311
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The Holy Qur'an is a knowledgeable and realistic book which, according to Qur'anic verses, narrations and wisdom, need to be elaborated and interpreted. Throughout the history of many commentators, based on the methods, trends, and various interpretive schools, they have interpreted this celestial book. ...
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The Holy Qur'an is a knowledgeable and realistic book which, according to Qur'anic verses, narrations and wisdom, need to be elaborated and interpreted. Throughout the history of many commentators, based on the methods, trends, and various interpretive schools, they have interpreted this celestial book. Accordingly, the Qur'an's interpretation has evolved, and until the present day complete interpretations or some parts of the Qur'an have been written, and the interpretation has continued. Among these, the book "The Interpretation of the Eleventh Surah from the Holy Qur'an" by Mr. Dharullah Mashayekhi, has been compiled for the course of the disciplinary interpretation of the Qur'anic verses and the theology of theology. In this article, the advantages and disadvantages of this book are criticized and evaluated in terms of its form and content. Due to the existing deficiencies, it is suggested that these comments be applied in the coming editions of the book as the source of the course of interpretive interpretation in the baccalaureate.
Philosophy
Hadi Vakili
Volume 18, Issue 7 , December 2018, , Pages 313-324
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Encyclopedia of new religious movements edited by Peter B. Clarke provides a truly engaging and authentic view of the emerging religious movements on a background of the universe. This encyclopedia, containing 428 articles from leading academics, studies the remarkable examples of religious movements ...
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Encyclopedia of new religious movements edited by Peter B. Clarke provides a truly engaging and authentic view of the emerging religious movements on a background of the universe. This encyclopedia, containing 428 articles from leading academics, studies the remarkable examples of religious movements emerging in each continent. Clarke as an editor has written a higher income as "New Religions as a global phenomenon", a "Resource guide of NRM" and a useful article entitled "Typology of new religions" in this encyclopedia. This encyclopedia is a leading, research, updating, important, and valuable reference for academic libraries. However, the encyclopedia suffers from some disadvantages, among which we can refer to apparent contradictions in Index, the incidence of historical errors, print, etc., in its context and putting NRM identified with the Cults, sects, and counter-culture groups
Philosophy
Maryam Saneapour
Volume 17, Issue 7 , January 2018, , Pages 55-76
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This article introduces, analyzes, and criticizes the book entitled: "An Introduction to Sufism, the Inner Path of Islam" written by Eric Geoffroy and translated from French to English by Roger Gaetani. Geoffroy, in this work, explains the inner spirituality of Islam. He has studied Sufism from many ...
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This article introduces, analyzes, and criticizes the book entitled: "An Introduction to Sufism, the Inner Path of Islam" written by Eric Geoffroy and translated from French to English by Roger Gaetani. Geoffroy, in this work, explains the inner spirituality of Islam. He has studied Sufism from many aspects and reviewed the origins of the Islamic Mysticism up to present. The author has used Sufism as a magnifier, and he has observed a unique spirituality which is existed in all the inner forms of Islam.One of the advantages of this book is its wide historical perspective which considers the most important Sufi dervishes from the early days of Sufism formation up to now. Moreover, Geoffroy has studied the discussions, theories, and practices which caused to form Sufism fairly and accurately. In this book, the global and unifying aspects of Sufism which can contrast with radical sectarianisms have been highlighted. Geoffroy has attempted to make a balance between the early Islamic mystics like special treatment of the subject balances the voices of long ago as Ibn Arabi, Rumi, Hallaj, etc. and the contemporary mystics.In this article, the most important issues of the book have been emphasized, and their positive or negative aspects have been reviewed.
Philosophy
Hasan Ahmadizade
Volume 17, Issue 5 , October 2017, , Pages 1-13
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One of the most important subjects for investigation in the humanities, especially in philosophy and theology, is the comparative investigation. Today in many countries, comparative philosophy is an independent discipline that has different especial methods and investigators. In the Islamic Republic ...
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One of the most important subjects for investigation in the humanities, especially in philosophy and theology, is the comparative investigation. Today in many countries, comparative philosophy is an independent discipline that has different especial methods and investigators. In the Islamic Republic of Iran, after the Islamic Revolution, many thinkers tried to conduct studies on the comparative subjects and published different books and articles about these subjects as well as the comparative philosophy itself. Dr. Mahdi Haeri Yazdi is one the contemporary Islamic thinkers that has investigated comparative philosophy by publishing different books and articles in this area. In this article, we try to re-study one of his books about comparative philosophy drawing on a critical approach. The author in his book, “HerameHasti” (Pyramid of Being)has tried to notice to some philosophical problems, comparing Islamic philosophy and Western philosophy and logic. In this article, we try to show that his book has some internal and methodical pitfalls although it has different merits for comparative investigations in philosophy, theology, and logic.
Philosophy
Ahmad Reza Tabatabai
Volume 17, Issue 5 , October 2017, , Pages 15-34
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Michael J. Sandal (born March 1993) is an American Political philosopher and professor at Harward University. He is best known for the Harward Course Justice and for his critique of John Rawls’s “Theory of Justice”. Sandal in his book "Public Philosophy", which is about his ideas in ...
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Michael J. Sandal (born March 1993) is an American Political philosopher and professor at Harward University. He is best known for the Harward Course Justice and for his critique of John Rawls’s “Theory of Justice”. Sandal in his book "Public Philosophy", which is about his ideas in "Morality in Politics" has explained his philosophical and Political thoughts with real and objective examples. In this book, he has tried to lead abstract philosophical discussions into concrete political and social affairs. The author has tried to explain the relationship between ethics and politics in American society with concrete examples. The author of the present article aims to clarify Saddle’s view in ethics and politics as well as his critical thoughts about Rawls’s Theory of Justice.
Philosophy
Muhammad Asghari
Volume 17, Issue 5 , October 2017, , Pages 35-48
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This article tries to critically review Modern and Postmodern Philosophers: The End of History by Ali Moradkhani. The topic of Endism is one of many new issues that in the late twentieth century, especially with Fukuyama, has gained momentum in academic circles. This issue has been, explicitly or ...
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This article tries to critically review Modern and Postmodern Philosophers: The End of History by Ali Moradkhani. The topic of Endism is one of many new issues that in the late twentieth century, especially with Fukuyama, has gained momentum in academic circles. This issue has been, explicitly or implicitly, stated in philosophy of modern and postmodern in this book, but the author wants to make clear it under the title of "end of history". This article consists of two parts: The first part of this article refers to the shortcomings of the content of the book such as the style of its writing and translation. In other words, much of the book is a translation of the sources of the book, not necessarily the author’s own ideas. The second part of the article considers formal shortcomings of book such as book cover, table of contents, references, endnotes, etc. We also propose some samples whenever necessary.
Philosophy
Ghasem Pourhassan; Afsaneh Pandjoo
Volume 17, Issue 5 , October 2017, , Pages 49-70
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The deontological epistemic approach was a reaction to the foundationalism approach that advocated the existence of basic or self-justified beliefs. Descartes, skeptical of any kind of knowledge, provided the first foundations for such an approach. John Locke and W. K. Clifford expanded it with two different ...
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The deontological epistemic approach was a reaction to the foundationalism approach that advocated the existence of basic or self-justified beliefs. Descartes, skeptical of any kind of knowledge, provided the first foundations for such an approach. John Locke and W. K. Clifford expanded it with two different perspectives. Locke, in "The Reasonableness of Christianity" and "Human Understanding" and Clifford in "The Ethic of Belief" attempted to form extreme reasoning approach while criticizing foundationalism and emphasizing the existence of reason for any belief. This view provided a new basis for the acceptance of belief, which emphasized both reasoning and the ethical aspect of accepting the belief. Clifford in the treatise of "The Ethic of Beliefs", by telling two specific stories, while criticizing and praising current epistemology, seeks to show that the importance of ethical consequences of epistemic belief is more than merely justification. His major point of reliance in this path is the link between ethics and epistemology. In his treatise, he criticized the religious rightness beliefs of Muslims and, after Locke, specifically addressed the theory of authority. Clifford's method will face many challenges in emphasizing mere reason of maximum extreme type, and rejection of the particular state of faith.
Philosophy
Zohreh Saeidi
Volume 17, Issue 5 , October 2017, , Pages 71-85
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Philosophy of Eshraq is represented as new and illustrative thought in the history of Islamic philosophy. Studying Islamic philosophy is not completed without studying Philosophy of Eshraq. The book describes and analyzes wisdom of Eshraq as illuminating fundamental principles of the Eshraq Philosophy. ...
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Philosophy of Eshraq is represented as new and illustrative thought in the history of Islamic philosophy. Studying Islamic philosophy is not completed without studying Philosophy of Eshraq. The book describes and analyzes wisdom of Eshraq as illuminating fundamental principles of the Eshraq Philosophy. The current book describes and analyzes Philosophy of Eshraq concentrating on “Hikmat al – Eshraq” book. For this purpose, the author has offered judgments of Sheikh Eshraq about subjects of the philosophy that are considered as Sheikh Eshraq replies to Masha, and he has analyzed them. In this article, we introduce the book and indicate backgrounds of such books and analyze its content and formal dimensions. In order to do provide the assessment and critique, we indicate negative and positive aspects and suggest some recommendations to improve the book in the subsequent editions.
Philosophy
Morteza Shajari
Volume 17, Issue 5 , October 2017, , Pages 87-107
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Islamic Thought 1 is a book which has been written for bachelor students of all fields, and it has reached its 97th edition. The book seeks to examine three important doctrinal principles, including human, God, and resurrection. But unfortunately the book has not utilized great Islamic intellectuals’ ...
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Islamic Thought 1 is a book which has been written for bachelor students of all fields, and it has reached its 97th edition. The book seeks to examine three important doctrinal principles, including human, God, and resurrection. But unfortunately the book has not utilized great Islamic intellectuals’ opinions, namely Avicenna, Abu Hamid al-Gazali, Sheikh Ishraq, and Mulla Sadra. The authors of this book have presented their own accepted opinions with theological attitudes and with very weak reasons. When they realized the weaknesses of traditional theology reasoning, and and when they could not provide rational proofs for it, they drew on some terms and reasoning of transcendental wisdom, which per se led to some contradictions in represented opinions in this book. The author of this paper believes that this book does not represent any thoughts, nor does it reflectany Islam of great intellectuals like Mulla-Sadra
Philosophy
Hoorieh Shojaee
Volume 17, Issue 5 , October 2017, , Pages 109-122
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Thematic interpretation of the Quranic verses interpretation helps to create a comprehensive and in-depth understanding impression of the subjects of the Quran. The author of the book of Creation in the Holy Quran wrote a case study about the creation of verses with the "School of literary ...
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Thematic interpretation of the Quranic verses interpretation helps to create a comprehensive and in-depth understanding impression of the subjects of the Quran. The author of the book of Creation in the Holy Quran wrote a case study about the creation of verses with the "School of literary interpretation" method. When facing cosmology theories and in order to get a better understanding of world necessity and show a faithful reaction to scientific success, he compared modern and traditional interpretations. He used author-based hermeneutic method against text-based without following the specific school, so this work opens new horizons in the interpretation issues. Hence, reviewing this work with a critical perspective can help to improve its quality. In so doing, , in this paper, after introducing the book and providing a summary of its content, as well as the analysis of the author’s method, some structural and content features are expressed along with some suggestions to rectify the shortcomings.
Philosophy
Raham Sharaf; Sahar Kavandi
Volume 17, Issue 5 , October 2017, , Pages 123-143
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Great importance of two fields of religion and morality necessitates the study of their relation. Religion and morality contribute to each other in many ways. However, in some cases, religious and moral propositions seem to be incompatible. Therefore, profound philosophical research is required to investigate ...
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Great importance of two fields of religion and morality necessitates the study of their relation. Religion and morality contribute to each other in many ways. However, in some cases, religious and moral propositions seem to be incompatible. Therefore, profound philosophical research is required to investigate possible relations and conflicts of these two fields. Religion and Morality: An Investigation into Types of Morality's Dependence on Religion has studied these issues and since this work is used as a textbook for students of philosophy of morality and philosophy of religion in master's level, it should be critically analyzed. The method we have applied in this article is library research as well as analytic. First, the necessity of this research has been pointed out. Next, this book has been analyzed in terms of its form, and its advantages and disadvantages have been mentioned. Later, the book has been investigated in terms of its content mentioning its advantages and disadvantages in this respect as well. Finally, some suggestions have been provided for the improvement of this work.
Philosophy
Mohammad shokry
Volume 17, Issue 5 , October 2017, , Pages 145-162
Abstract
The logical positivism was the name of radical empiricism that was formed in Viena by the inspiration of persons like Hume, Russell, Witgenstein and others in 1920 and then entered into England by Ayer via his The language, True and Logic book.The main claim of this philosophical ...
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The logical positivism was the name of radical empiricism that was formed in Viena by the inspiration of persons like Hume, Russell, Witgenstein and others in 1920 and then entered into England by Ayer via his The language, True and Logic book.The main claim of this philosophical movement is to exclude metaphysics as a kind of knowledge. Spokesmen and agents of this school of thinking who accepted Hume’s division of propositions into Analytic and synthetical, believed that not only metaphysics but also theology and morals cannot be counted as scientific mental actions. Translating some articles, the writer of logical positivism has tried to represents and criticize its main doctrines like verifiability.
Philosophy
Seyed Mustafa Shahraeini
Volume 17, Issue 5 , October 2017, , Pages 163-184
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The present paper aims to introduce, criticize, and survey the Persian translation of the 4th volume of The Routledge History of Philosophy: The Renaissance and Seventeenth-century Rationalism, translated by Hasan Murtazawi. The ten volumes Routledge History of Philosophy provides ...
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The present paper aims to introduce, criticize, and survey the Persian translation of the 4th volume of The Routledge History of Philosophy: The Renaissance and Seventeenth-century Rationalism, translated by Hasan Murtazawi. The ten volumes Routledge History of Philosophy provides a chronological survey of the history of Western philosophy, from its beginnings in the sixth century BC to the present time. It discusses all the major philosophical developments in-depth. The philosophy discussed in this volume covers a period of three hundred and fifty years, from the middle of the fourteenth century to the early years of the eighteenth century: The birth of modern philosophy. The chief topics are Renaissance philosophy and seventeenth-century rationalism—in particular Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz. This volume has been published 1993 by Routledge and translated into Persian and published in 2014 in Iran. The author aims to introduce these ten volumes, history in general, and the 4th one in particular to Persian readers. Then, the content and form of Persian translation has been reviewed and criticized.
Philosophy
Majid Sadrmajles
Volume 17, Issue 5 , October 2017, , Pages 185-202
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In the present essay the Persian translation of Routledge History of Philosophy: Renaissance and Seventeenth-century Rationalism is reviewed. This work is volume 4 of the ten ones and was first published in 1993 by Routledge Publications. The editor of this book is J. R. A. Parkinson and ...
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In the present essay the Persian translation of Routledge History of Philosophy: Renaissance and Seventeenth-century Rationalism is reviewed. This work is volume 4 of the ten ones and was first published in 1993 by Routledge Publications. The editor of this book is J. R. A. Parkinson and the Persian translator of the book is Seyyed Mostafa Sharaeeni with the editorship of Hassan Fathi. It was first published in 1392 in Iran.After a brief introduction of the English text, our article is divided into two parts: 1- Reviewing the formal aspects of the Persian translation, and 2- Reviewing the material aspects. For both aspects, we compare some pages of Persian translation with the original text at random. Our relative conclusion reveals that the Persian translation is credible, understandable, and useful for Iranian students of philosophy. Experience and expertise of Persian translator and his attention to the philosophical terms are mainly from factors that make his translation an academic reliable work. Of course, there are some unwanted slips the correction of which depicts ethical tasks and philosophical originality of translator against readers.
Philosophy
Ali Reza Fakhary
Volume 17, Issue 5 , October 2017, , Pages 203-228
Abstract
Curriculum planning is based on both macro and general issues as well as on the details, and the type of look at each one will have a major impact on the curriculum development and its quality. One of the most important issues in this regard is the need assessment, setting and limiting goals and missions, ...
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Curriculum planning is based on both macro and general issues as well as on the details, and the type of look at each one will have a major impact on the curriculum development and its quality. One of the most important issues in this regard is the need assessment, setting and limiting goals and missions, as well as the issue of evaluation. The strengths and weaknesses of a curriculum return to the strengths and weaknesses of these issues. Therefore, to optimize each educational activity, it is necessary to evaluate each of its components in order to identify the deficiencies by trying to resolve them. An overview of the curriculum of the Quran and Hadith sciences suggests that there is no serious theoretical precision in constructing the principles of curriculum planning, which may be one of the major weaknesses of the discipline and the cause of not making capable students. Planning with no plans and non-compliance with educational standards will not solve the problem, and it will further become a problem along with other problems.
Philosophy
Nawab Moqarrabi
Volume 17, Issue 5 , October 2017, , Pages 229-254
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As the title implies, The Ethics of Science: An Introduction, is a book on the science of ethics published by the Research Institute of Science and Religion of the Research Institute for Islamic Culture and Science in 2012. The English title is "The Ethics of Science: An Introduction", written by David ...
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As the title implies, The Ethics of Science: An Introduction, is a book on the science of ethics published by the Research Institute of Science and Religion of the Research Institute for Islamic Culture and Science in 2012. The English title is "The Ethics of Science: An Introduction", written by David B. Resnik and its translators are Mostafa Taghavi and Mahboubeh Morshedian. The ethics of science, which is a type of professional ethics in fact closely overlaps with various fields such as politics, society, ethics, religion, and economics. However, this field of ethics is more related to the sociology of science. In this article, the author first describes and explains the sociology of science, and then outlines a general design and an abstract of the contents of the book, and finally briefly reviews the deficiencies of the book.
Philosophy
Shamsolmolok Mostafavi
Volume 17, Issue 5 , October 2017, , Pages 255-272
Abstract
« Orientalism, Post modernism, and Globalism are important topics each of which has led to the reflection and serious study of a number of contemporary thinkers on various fields of the humanities. Bryan Turner is one of the scholars who has explored these issues in a book with the same title and ...
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« Orientalism, Post modernism, and Globalism are important topics each of which has led to the reflection and serious study of a number of contemporary thinkers on various fields of the humanities. Bryan Turner is one of the scholars who has explored these issues in a book with the same title and tried to clarify their relationship with one another. He argues in these series of subjects that not only globalization and post modernism have complicated the notion of "society" and thus challenged the legitimacy of thinking and the coherence of "sociology" itself, but they also affect all areas, including Orientalism. Emphasizing that the main threat to religious faith in a postmodern society is the commodification of everyday life, he urges intellectuals, in the light of the created shifts in the global nature of consumerism, to reflect on the traditional ways in which Orientalism has been discussed. The present article seeks to provide a critical analysis of his views by providing a content description of Turner's book.
