Research Philosophy
Is the Absolute Spirit God? Reviewing and Criticizing Hegels Concept of God

Mohammad Mehdi Ardebili

Volume 18, Issue 7 , December 2018, Pages 1-14

Abstract
  Place and role of God in Hegel’s philosophy have become one of the most controversial problems in philosophy and interpretation for the past two centuries. The main distinction between the two Hegelian movements (the left and the right wings) depends on how we answer this issue. Contrary to the ...  Read More

Research Philosophy
Nietzsche as Holy Spirit of Deleuze: A Review of Nietzsche and Philosophy

Muhammad Asghari

Volume 18, Issue 7 , December 2018, Pages 15-34

Abstract
  This article introduces and evaluates Nietzsche and Philosophy by Gilles Deleuze. Deleuze's book, first published in 1962 in France, was later translated into English in 1983. In the 1960s, the book was a reaction to the predominating Hegelianism of France's Alexandre Kojève and Jean ...  Read More

Research Philosophy
Rational Belief: A Critical Review of the Book Faith and Reason

Ghasem Pour Hasan

Volume 18, Issue 7 , December 2018, Pages 35-62

Abstract
  The Rationality theory is considered as one of the most important and fundamental approaches in the history of philosophy of religion. The conflict of reason and faith has a long history. Defending rationality against the domination of the faithism in Christianity should be regarded as an effective and ...  Read More

Research Philosophy
Review of History: What and Why?

Jalal Paykani

Volume 18, Issue 7 , December 2018, Pages 63-76

Abstract
  This paper is aims to review the book entitled Review of History: What and Why? byBeverley Southgate. Our findings show that this book is not an original work which contains speculations of the author, but it is an elementary text book about one of the most important questions of the philosophy ...  Read More

Research Philosophy
A Review of Wittgenstein and the End of Philosophy: Neither Theory nor Therapy

Atieh Zandieh

Volume 18, Issue 7 , December 2018, Pages 77-100

Abstract
  Identifying the end of a science is one of the criteria for knowing that science. In philosophy, philosophers seek to define science based on the end they determine for it. This article represents Wittgenstein’s view on the end of philosophy in Hutto’s words. Hutto begins his argument with ...  Read More

Research Philosophy
Introduction and Critique of the Philosophy of Eshragh

Zohreh Saeidi

Volume 18, Issue 7 , December 2018, Pages 101-114

Abstract
  Philosophy of Eshragh is too important as it is situated between Mulla Sadra and Ibn Sina’s philosophy. Thus every book that introduces and analyzes itcan be assessed. In this book, the author, after propounding development ground of the logical – illuminated philosophy of Eshragh, focusing ...  Read More

Research Philosophy
“The Dictionary of the Terminology of Theology” at a Glance

Hoorieh Shojaee

Volume 18, Issue 7 , December 2018, Pages 115-134

Abstract
  Each science has its own terminology and technical language, which is a tool for understanding the texts of that science. Dictionaries are an application tool for researchers. The dictionaries help the correct and quick understanding of these terms in order to co-ordinate with the scientific community ...  Read More

Research Philosophy
A Critical Study of Descartes Embodied: Reading Cartesian Philosophy through Cartesian Science

Seyed Mostafa Shahraeeni; Azizeh Zirak Baroogi

Volume 18, Issue 7 , December 2018, Pages 135-157

Abstract
  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, ...  Read More

Research Philosophy
Introduction, Analysis, and Critique for Ethics: A Pluralistic Approach to Moral Theory

Maryam Saneapour; Amir Sadeghi

Volume 18, Issue 7 , December 2018, Pages 159-180

Abstract
  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 ...  Read More

Research Philosophy
A Critical Study on the Persian Translation of Routledge History of Philosophy

Majid Sadrmajles

Volume 18, Issue 7 , December 2018, Pages 181-199

Abstract
  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 ...  Read More

Research Philosophy
A Critical Review “Phenomenology and Mysticism”

Yahya Solati

Volume 18, Issue 7 , December 2018, Pages 201-217

Abstract
  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 ...  Read More

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Philosophical Role of Deleuze and Spinoza in Gillian Howie's Feminism, on Deleuze and Spinoza: Aura of Expressionism

Behnaz Aghili Dehkordi; Hossein Kalbasi Ashtari

Volume 18, Issue 7 , December 2018, Pages 219-238

Abstract
  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 ...  Read More

Research Philosophy
A Critical Review of “Ibn-Sina’s Influence on Dons Scotos”

Hassan Fathi

Volume 18, Issue 7 , December 2018, Pages 239-251

Abstract
  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 ...  Read More

Research Philosophy
A Critical Study of Mysticism and Philosophy

Saba Fadavi; Mohyeddin Ghanbari

Volume 18, Issue 7 , December 2018, Pages 253-272

Abstract
  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 ...  Read More

Research Philosophy
A Critical Look at The Good Life, Unifying the Philosophy and Psychology of Well-Being

Hamidreza Mahboobi Arani

Volume 18, Issue 7 , December 2018, Pages 273-287

Abstract
  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 ...  Read More

Research Philosophy
Review and Evaluation of the Book of Interpretation of the Eleventh Surah from the Holy Quran

Majid Ma'aref; Hossein Taghipour

Volume 18, Issue 7 , December 2018, Pages 289-311

Abstract
  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. ...  Read More

Research Philosophy
An Evaluation and Critique of Encyclopedia of New Religious Movements

Hadi Vakili

Volume 18, Issue 7 , December 2018, Pages 313-324

Abstract
  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 ...  Read More