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Economy
Mohammad Amir Rizvandi; Rouhollah Aboojafari; Mohammad Azimzadeh Arani
Abstract
With the introduction of knowledge-based economy as a new form of economic development model, we have witnessed the publication of many books and research papers in recent years. One of these works is the book Knowledge-Based Economics: Basics, Concepts, Methodology, which was recently published, and ...
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With the introduction of knowledge-based economy as a new form of economic development model, we have witnessed the publication of many books and research papers in recent years. One of these works is the book Knowledge-Based Economics: Basics, Concepts, Methodology, which was recently published, and this article introduces and reviews its content. In terms of content, according to the authors' emphasis on the importance of tacit knowledge and placing it in the focus of discussions, their approach to the knowledge-based economy can be considered evolutionary, and also considering the emphasis on institutions for the foundation of the knowledge-based economy, their analytical framework is institutional economics. The book is comprehensive, but it is not completely consistent with the selected title in which the methodology is mentioned. Also, while the theories rely on statistical evidence, the oldness of the presented statistics makes it necessary to update the sources and reports used. There is no room for different views on the knowledge-based economy and the discussion about the complexities of intellectual property rights in the book. But in general, the book has been able to present the fundamentals and concepts of a knowledge-based economy to the audience in clear and simple language.
Research
Economy
Mohammad Yarahmadi; Mohammad Soleimani
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This research has analyzed and criticized the important book of Imam Musa Sadr entitled "Islamic Economic Approaches". This book is a collection of speeches and essays of Imam Musa Sadr in the field of Islamic economics, which has received the attention of academic centers in the last decade and has ...
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This research has analyzed and criticized the important book of Imam Musa Sadr entitled "Islamic Economic Approaches". This book is a collection of speeches and essays of Imam Musa Sadr in the field of Islamic economics, which has received the attention of academic centers in the last decade and has been studied and discussed as one of the texts of Islamic economics. The review of this book shows that Imam Musa Sadr, like Martyr Sadr, separates economics from the economic school in the field of Islamic economics and believes that Islam does not have an economic science, but the Islamic economic school is based on Islamic rules and jurisprudence. In this article, after analyzing the theoretical literature of Islamic economics from the point of view of Imam Musa Sadr and Martyr Sadr, the strengths and weaknesses of the book were examined with a descriptive-analytical method. The identified weaknesses are ambiguity in the concept of fairness of wages and worker's share of production, lack of attention to the concept of governmental jurisprudence and ambiguity in the definition of Islamic economic school, lack of attention to the methodology of economics, ambiguity in expressing the basis of the theory of value in Islam, lack of paying attention to the activity of the legal personality of the government in the economy and the ambiguity in expressing the authority of the Islamic government and velayat-e-faqih in the regulation of the economy.
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Theology and religions
Azim Hamzian; Ghasem Raufi
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The book "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho is a symbolic story that presents mystical themes in the form of a journey. This article examines the common mystical concepts between "The Alchemist" and the mystical teachings of Sheikh Ala'odoleh Semnani, a prominent mystic of the 7th and 8th centuries AH. ...
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The book "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho is a symbolic story that presents mystical themes in the form of a journey. This article examines the common mystical concepts between "The Alchemist" and the mystical teachings of Sheikh Ala'odoleh Semnani, a prominent mystic of the 7th and 8th centuries AH. It begins by identifying common mystical concepts such as the unity of existence, journey, symbolism, treasure, etc., and then analyzes comparatively how these concepts are expressed and interpreted in both works. Finally, it compares, evaluates, and critiques the mystical aspects of "The Alchemist" in light of Semnani's mystical teachings. This content analysis was conducted using a descriptive-analytical method and a comparative approach based on library studies. Although the origin, style, method, purpose, and audience of this study differ, the findings suggest that Coelho shares verbal similarities with Sheikh Semnani's mystical teachings in the elements mentioned above. However, in terms of ultimate goal and purpose, they are completely contradictory and conflicting. By adopting mystical teachings and combining them with his ideas, Coelho seeks to promote a kind of modern or mixed spirituality to fill the voids of contemporary humanity. promote a kind of modern or blended spirituality to fill the voids of contemporary humanity, offering a new interpretation of life.
Research
Civilization
Ali Moradi; Habiballah Babaei; Seyyed Ziauddin Mir Mohammadi
Abstract
What is said about the "world order" today is more about the political order and the order in the relations between the nations and the governments than the comprehensive order of civilization and the cultural order of the world. What Marshall Hodgson has sought in the book "Miracle of Islam" is to prove ...
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What is said about the "world order" today is more about the political order and the order in the relations between the nations and the governments than the comprehensive order of civilization and the cultural order of the world. What Marshall Hodgson has sought in the book "Miracle of Islam" is to prove the order of Muslim civilization based on human-religious principles and with a moral and spiritual approach. The importance of Hodgson's idea is that he seeks to prove the effective role of religion as a spiritual matter for the connection between civilizational elements. The question that Hodgson seeks to answer is how religion and ethics can be a factor in the stability of the civilizational order. From Marshall Hodgson's point of view, the civilizational order of Islamic civilization started from religion as a divine and moral thing and has been extended until modern times based on human and moral standards. Hodgson pays attention to the humanistic methodology that the principles of civilization must be established based on the historical awareness of man, in which ethics and religion are the most important elements, and the goal of the moral order of civilization is to achieve world peace.
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political science
Majid Behestani
Abstract
This article deals with the critical review of the book "The Foreign Policy of Iran: A Developing Nation in World Affairs, 1500-1941". The importance of choosing this work is that the author of the work, Ruhollah Ramezani, is the initiator of theoretical studies of the history of Iran's foreign policy. ...
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This article deals with the critical review of the book "The Foreign Policy of Iran: A Developing Nation in World Affairs, 1500-1941". The importance of choosing this work is that the author of the work, Ruhollah Ramezani, is the initiator of theoretical studies of the history of Iran's foreign policy. This approach in that period, i.e. the years after World War II, was considered an innovative thing for all third-world countries. On the other hand, by translating it into Farsi, despite the gap of fifty years since its creation, due to the poverty of the source and the richness of the work, it was quickly noticed by intellectual and academic circles. As far as it seems, there is nothing wrong with this work. The main idea of the book is that despite the political developments over five hundred years, unrealistic traditionalism has ruled Iran's foreign policy. The main claim of this article is to clarify its content problems and theoretical weaknesses while reading it critically. Conservatism is the essence of his theory, which along with cold rationality gives a framework that even independence movements are rejected.
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political science
Mohammad Ali Tavana; Mahmoud Alipour
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The main purpose of this article is to review the book "Citizenship, Democracy and Green Justice" written by David E. Lowry and others. The book contains articles about environmental problems, human health and the environment, household consumption basket and environmental pollution, and green justice. ...
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The main purpose of this article is to review the book "Citizenship, Democracy and Green Justice" written by David E. Lowry and others. The book contains articles about environmental problems, human health and the environment, household consumption basket and environmental pollution, and green justice. The main idea of the collection of articles in the book is that sustainable development is not possible without citizenship, democracy, and green justice. The assumption of these articles is that green citizenship can be established based on ethical recommendations and changing laws and regulations. It seems that the humanistic and legalistic approach leads to a thin green citizenship. On the other hand, this article shows that the approach of civil society (republicanism) has more potential for building green citizenship. According to this approach, moral commitment and responsible action towards the environment requires, above all, belonging to a new society (inclusive natural civil society) in which the relations of citizens are not based on social contracts but on civil friendship. In practice there are serious obstacles to the formation of environmental citizenship: including competition for economic development and growth; Hardening of national identity; and Reducing human action to utilitarian action, especially against nature.
Research
Economy
Mohammad Reza Darrehshiri
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The book "National System of Political Economy" by Friedrich List has tried to expose the fallacies in the explanation and analysis of the history of the development of industrialized countries. With a research narrative approach, this book has provided lessons for development policies in developing ...
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The book "National System of Political Economy" by Friedrich List has tried to expose the fallacies in the explanation and analysis of the history of the development of industrialized countries. With a research narrative approach, this book has provided lessons for development policies in developing countries by examining historical events and factors that have had an effective role in the development of industrialized countries, and in this process, she has come to the conclusion that the classical economic theories are in conflict with the historical facts and has severely criticized them. This article has tried to examine List's economic ideas and introduce some of the reasons for the marginalization of these ideas by orthodox economists and finally, based on List's thoughts, with a scholarly narrative view, identify and present the most important theoretical fallacies in Iran's industrialization process in the last four decades. These fallacies have had a great impact on the relative inefficiency of economic governance in implementing the privatization program, creating a stable balance in the trade balance, improving productivity, developing the knowledge-based economy and reversing the emigration of elites from the country.
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Philosophy
Maryam Jayervand
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“τὰ μετὰ τὰ φυσικά (Metaphysics)” is a title that was given to a collection of Aristotle’s researches after him. In this way, the unity of “Metaphysics” as a unified work has been questioned from the beginning. Finding ...
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“τὰ μετὰ τὰ φυσικά (Metaphysics)” is a title that was given to a collection of Aristotle’s researches after him. In this way, the unity of “Metaphysics” as a unified work has been questioned from the beginning. Finding the primary question and the desirable goal in different parts of Metaphysics is necessary to read this book as a single work. What transforms Metaphysics into a single work is a unique knowledge that Aristotle considered in his metaphysical research. In “Metaphysics” Aristotle seeks a science called Sophia or the first science. Whether Sophia is a distinct science is for Aristotle a difficult question to answer. To understand Aristotle’s problem, we should consider the unity of each science. How does every single science become a separate one? For Aristotle unity of each science depends on its substance or subject. Sophia has a specific subject, so Sophia’s unity is not like other sciences. Sophia considers being qua being as its subject. By being qua being, Aristotle introduces a general subject for Sophia. The subject of Sophia is the whole universe, but a conception of the whole is prior to discovering each substance as a unique substance. Sophia plays an important role in defining and discovering a new subject. So, Sophia is not itself a distinct science, it is the origin of all sciences. Sophia is called the first science in this view.
Research
Philosophy
Ebrahim Ranjbar
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Robert Grosseteste was one of the greatest philosophers of 12th and 13th centuries. Among his writings, there is a treatise called “De Luce” in which he tries to consolidate his philosophical approach with theology and to give an account that fits his scientific-philosophical point of view ...
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Robert Grosseteste was one of the greatest philosophers of 12th and 13th centuries. Among his writings, there is a treatise called “De Luce” in which he tries to consolidate his philosophical approach with theology and to give an account that fits his scientific-philosophical point of view and the creation in the Book of “Genesis”. To this end, Grosseteste in the first part of the treatise explains the very nature of Light and then demonstrates how is it possible to consider Light a creator of all things created and how this Light actualizes these possible things from within not outside. He asserts that Light extends Seipsam, a byproduct of which is matter’s extension, and this assertion would be a basis for him to give an innovative interpretation of how things are created. In this article, we first try to investigate his intellectual background and to show upon which basis he interpreted Light in this manner, by doing this there will be an appropriate moment for us to analyze “De Luce” and to show what sort of intellectual consequences had his light theory and how it could contribute in developing of Renaissance philosophy.
Research
Philosophy
Hossein Safi Pirlooje
Abstract
Jameson has laid the foundation of his Political Hermeneutic on the assumption that the unconscious might take social and historical connotations into its usual reference to current individualized life. Any evidence of the social implications of the unconscious, according to Jameson, is to look for its ...
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Jameson has laid the foundation of his Political Hermeneutic on the assumption that the unconscious might take social and historical connotations into its usual reference to current individualized life. Any evidence of the social implications of the unconscious, according to Jameson, is to look for its content rather than the form of cultural text. Despite all the reliance Jameson puts on the notion of ‘reification’ and the socio-historical connotations it may have for the production of cultural texts, it is still possible in his view to detect, drawing on Freudian psychology, some faint traces of humanity left in our socially alienated way of life under complicated dehumanizing effects of present capitalist context – traces which are repressed, but not fully obliterated, beneath cultural superstructure of late capitalism. We are here to investigate, by the way of a dialectical reading through “The Political Unconscious” (1981), Jameson’s own dialectical extensions of the unconscious from, its ordinary psychological sense to the realm of mythology and literary criticism, as he aligns his own conception of History first with the Lacanian notion of the Real, and then, with Althusser’s notion of ‘structural causality’. We will also see how History, the Real, or ‘absent cause’ is discernible just after getting narratively textualized by ideology. At the end of our venture to unveil the unconscious behind “The Political Unconscious”, we will see two equivocal dimensions of The Political Hermeneutic: the relationship between History and narrativization, on the one hand, and Jameson’s diachronically analyzing the coincidence of non-synchronic-social-structures, on the other hand.
