Review and Criticism of From Secular Science to Religious Science
Khosrow
Bagheri Noaparast
University of Tehran, Faculty of Psychology and Education, Department of Philosophical and Social Foundations
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2017
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The book From Secular Science to Religious Science (Golshani, 1998/2013) is the result of an attempt to criticize the secular approach to science and call to a religious approach to science. The author has taken two steps in criticizing the secular approach. First, he argue that science needs an orientation; an orientation that stems from the scientist’s worldview. In the meantime, the author criticizes positivism and attempts to show that science has metaphysical presuppositions. Second, the author argues that science needs morality in the application of scientific findings without which it leads to destruction. Using the methods of internal and external critique, this article argues that in spite of the author’s attention to the relationship between science and metaphysics, he has not been successful in the exploration of this relationship. This is because, on the one hand, he reduces the relationship to the application of findings and the realm of ethics and, on the other hand, he regards metaphysics as something that is added to science a posteriori. The very additional and a posteriori approach urges the author to take a neutral nature for science that, in its turn, shows that he has not completely freed himself from positivism. This article suggests that a proper conception of religious science regards an integrative relationship between science and metaphysics. Contrary to Reichenback, and Stanmark following him, this relationship does not lead science to the malign relativism even though a sound degree of relativism would involve science.
Pizhuhish nāmah-i intiqādī-i mutūn va barnāmah hā-yi ̒ulūm-i insāni (Critical Studies in Texts & Programs of Human Sciences)
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https://criticalstudy.ihcs.ac.ir/article_2669_8cd9c57e9a4bae34af3a43c85c5674a1.pdf
Conceptual Creative Realism as a Methodological Model of Islamic Science: A Critical Review
Mohammad Reza
Taghavi
Professor, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Shiraz University
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Seyed Saeid
Zahed
Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics, Management and Social Sciences, Shiraz University, Shiraz
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The aim of the present study was a review of “Conceptual Creative Realism” as a methodological model of Islamic science (Iman & Kelateh Sadati, 1392). The model had some strong points including a new presentation of science structure as well as a new definition congruent with the Islamic point of view entered in a new paradigm. Besides, the model defined hierarchy of knowledge in different ways where the God’s laws would be at the top of this hierarchy. Reality is further up observations and objective experiences as well as the correct criterion defined according to Islamic direction. o On the contrary, the model had some drawbacks including speaking in general, not specified, and missing links between the different concepts, as well as having ambiguity responding how we can specify the borders between different knowledge sources such as sensation experiences, wisdom, and intuition. In sum, the evaluated model seems to be an effective model which contributes to the Islamic science.
Pizhuhish nāmah-i intiqādī-i mutūn va barnāmah hā-yi ̒ulūm-i insāni (Critical Studies in Texts & Programs of Human Sciences)
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https://criticalstudy.ihcs.ac.ir/article_2672_f842e7b898148b93507585056855d096.pdf
Pathology of the Text Criticism in the Humanities (Case Study: Referees of the Literature Review and Humanities Books Council)
sayyed hossein
hosseini
Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy of Religion and Theology, Humanities and Cultural Studies Institute
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2017
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The purpose of this study was the pathology of text criticism in the humanities in the country from the view of some scholars and critics in this field. To this end, a sample of referees in the field of humanities who were available and had cooperation with the literature review and humanities books Council was selected to review the books and assessment tools. These tools were built and set based on the several years of experience on the part of the researcher. The results showed that the most important damages of humanities book criticism in mentioned Council are related to structural function of groups, damages such as incomplete groups, comprehensiveness; lack of identification of empowered professors in the country and defects in the referees, community. Finally, practical suggestions and strategies are provided based on these results in order to promote criticisms in the field of humanities in the country.
Pizhuhish nāmah-i intiqādī-i mutūn va barnāmah hā-yi ̒ulūm-i insāni (Critical Studies in Texts & Programs of Human Sciences)
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https://criticalstudy.ihcs.ac.ir/article_2674_5a90694dd04e28d6ba90b8254c6807f8.pdf
The Possibility and Utility of Religious Science in Nasr’s Discourse of Traditionalism
Mohammadreza
Khakigharamaleki
Graduated from the Specialized Center of Kalam, A Faculty Member of the Academy of Islamic Sciences
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2017
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The study discuses Professor Seyed Hossein Nasr’s idea of traditionalism; a discourse of traditionalism that seeks to resurrect the divine science relied on divine tradition, perennial philosophy, and intuitive reason. In the negative dimension, acknowledging cognitive, moral, and environmental crises caused by modern sciences and their inefficiency as well, made him criticize these sciences and emphasize a return to the scientific tradition and philosophic heritage of the past. In the affirmative dimension, he emphasizes a return to the divine sciences and production of religious sciences as a savior of the situation. To him, the characteristics of divine sciences are: disassociation between metaphysical dimension and the physical dimension, longitudinal outlook towards the hierarchies of universe, symbolism, traditional scientific language, and avoiding utilitarian outlook. In fact, to return to tradition means to invite to be equipped with the past scientific tradition, to get free from western domination, and to be immune from the invasion of technology waves, social structures, and modern sciences. However such a support for scientific tradition is passive, because it loses to confront with modern sciences intelligently and from the standpoint of power. It is an invitation for solitary in order not to confront with west.
Pizhuhish nāmah-i intiqādī-i mutūn va barnāmah hā-yi ̒ulūm-i insāni (Critical Studies in Texts & Programs of Human Sciences)
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https://criticalstudy.ihcs.ac.ir/article_3302_71186d4e7755046a619be2847add4ac7.pdf
Analysis and Critical Assessment of "We and our Philosophical Heritages" by "Mohammad Abed Al-Jabre"
Muslim
.taheri
Ph. D. Student In Islamic Social Science Faculty Of Social Science, University Of Tehran
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Yahya
bouzarynejad
Associate Professor Department of Islamic Social Sciences Faculty Of Social Science, University Of Tehran
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2017
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This study focused on the book "We and our Philosophical Heritage" as well as the position and attitude of Mohammed Abed al-Jabri, to achieve a clear understanding oh his works.. It also pays attention to external analysis and the origin of the work and its author. Inasmuch as the fact that non-cognitive factors affect the formation of thought, they need to be taken into account to describe the status of related work among other works in the field of specialization as well as the history of its formation. Then we discussed the internal analysis and place of work, the main topics, philosophy and methodology, assumptions, theories, in effect, a way of reasoning and logic, theory works and achievements, as well as references and citations.The most important part of this article is the evaluation of the effects of Jabre. In the final reflections on the content of the work and evaluation of the form, structure and methodology, it is appropriate to consider the consequences of scientific experts in the further investigation.
Pizhuhish nāmah-i intiqādī-i mutūn va barnāmah hā-yi ̒ulūm-i insāni (Critical Studies in Texts & Programs of Human Sciences)
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https://criticalstudy.ihcs.ac.ir/article_2682_ed3336770bee36fc2c14d8b6b5927b8d.pdf
The Critique of "Science and Religion in the West”
Abdolah
Mohammadi
Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Islamic Human Sciences, Department of Philosophy of Islamic Human Sciences in Iran
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2017
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Criticism of "The Relation between Science and Religion in the West" The relation between science and religion is one of the most controversial topics in contemporary ages. Several books and articles are published in Persian and other languages. "The Relation between Science and Religion in the West", written by Mohammad Rezaey Esfahany, is one of them. This book is written for students, but it is not a textbook.Simple literature, small volume of book pages and user-friendly phrases are some of the privileges of this book. However, inconsistency of volumes of chapters and no connection between main titles and subcategories decreased the coherence of book. The title of book does not correspond to its content. The content of this book does not show all kinds of relations between science and religion. If focuses only on the conflict between them and on social and psychological aspects of them and spoke about causes of church opposition with Galileo.The author used Popper and Kant's principles to solve this conflict, and this usage threatens the value of religious proposition from other aspects.
Pizhuhish nāmah-i intiqādī-i mutūn va barnāmah hā-yi ̒ulūm-i insāni (Critical Studies in Texts & Programs of Human Sciences)
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https://criticalstudy.ihcs.ac.ir/article_3303_7234f49b2abe3e4eaa91a1a5118980ee.pdf
A Critical Review of “Ijtehadic Paradigm of Religious Science”
SayyedMohammadTaghi
Movahed Abtahi
Ph.D. in Philosophy of Science and Technology and member of the Philosophy Department of Humanities, Domain and University Research
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Ijtehadic Paradigm of Religious Science is an influential book in the field ofreligious science. According to the potentials and limitations of the concept ofparadigm in Kuhn's philosophy of science, and compared with other terms suchas school and doctrine, as well as other variables including ontology, epistemology, anthropology, and methodology in the literature of Hawzah, the authors have redefined theparadigm and presented their theory based on this new definition.In the "Ijtehadic Paradigm of Religious Science" they have attemptedto show that the results of Ijtehadic method are valid and consideredas knowledge. Moreover, they have shown how to use different resources andmethods coherently. In this paper, different aspects of the book are reviewed in the light of a critical approach.
Pizhuhish nāmah-i intiqādī-i mutūn va barnāmah hā-yi ̒ulūm-i insāni (Critical Studies in Texts & Programs of Human Sciences)
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https://criticalstudy.ihcs.ac.ir/article_2686_47d4d44d3461d9fb3a0e7c684dda2eb6.pdf
Pro-Poor Growth: A Book Review
Seyedhossein
Mirjalili
Associate Professor of Economics, Institute for Humanities and Cultural studies, Tehran
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2017
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Delivering on the Promise of Pro-Poor Growth contributes to the debate on how to accelerate poverty reduction by providing insights from eight countries that have been relatively successful in delivering pro-poor growth: Bangladesh, Brazil, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Tunisia, Uganda, and Vietnam. It integrates growth analytics with the microanalysis of household data to determine how country policies and conditions interact to reduce poverty and to spread the benefits of growth across different income groups.It is an advantage of pro-poor growth theory that instead of focusing on redistribution of income for the poor, it focuses on the pattern of economic growth and proposes participation in growth. The absolute pro-poor growth (in the Indian experience) and relative pro-poor growth (in the Bangladesh experience) have been used in this book. It is not clear how much poverty reduction should be in order to make the growth pro-poor. In addition, in this book, inclusive growth, which is a more general notion than pro-poor, is not considered. In this paper, pro-poor policies in India, centered on the eradication of absolute poverty during 1958 to 2000, have been compared with inclusive growth policies of the India's eleventh and twelfth development plans during 2007-2017.
Pizhuhish nāmah-i intiqādī-i mutūn va barnāmah hā-yi ̒ulūm-i insāni (Critical Studies in Texts & Programs of Human Sciences)
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https://criticalstudy.ihcs.ac.ir/article_2979_649270527cdebac12bb406f3a72f2654.pdf
The Book Review of "Qualitative Research Methodology
Mostafa
Hamadani
Scholarof Jurisprudence and Philosophy in Qom Seminary
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2017
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Methodology is one of fundamental lessons in all scientific courses. In recent decades, qualitative methods of research attract many researchers' attention, but unfortunately, the share of academic texts in this new found field is rare. "Qualitative Research Methodology" by Iman has many privileges and numerous initiatives and can compensate shortage of qualitative research methodology to some extent. Nevertheless, there are some formal, structural, and content shortcomings in this book. Utilizing a documentary method, this study recommends some modifications of organized cases and explains (a) many existing problems, (b) the necessity of formal and content edition of the book especially some diagrams, and models. This study tries to criticize the above-mentioned book and proposes some modifications. Furthermore, of this study's achievements are (a) presentation of logical structure according to Aristotle's division and (b) presentation of its application in the structural review of the book.
Pizhuhish nāmah-i intiqādī-i mutūn va barnāmah hā-yi ̒ulūm-i insāni (Critical Studies in Texts & Programs of Human Sciences)
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https://criticalstudy.ihcs.ac.ir/article_2691_7023c2b125f5c1874e589b7669adeadb.pdf