mitra abbaszadegan; amirabbas alizamani; Jalal paykani
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the function of religious experience in making sense of life from William James’ point of view along with the description and analysis of the critiques. He considers the religious experience as a necessary and sufficient condition for discovering meaning. ...
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the function of religious experience in making sense of life from William James’ point of view along with the description and analysis of the critiques. He considers the religious experience as a necessary and sufficient condition for discovering meaning. He considers religion as something individual. With the evidence he provides for the subjectivity of emotions and the privacy of the mental life, we find out that James' views correspond with the new science and the specificity of religious experience and its meaning. Also, James' empirical explanations are uncertain and he does not see the need _________________________ * University of Tehran amir_alizamani@ut.ac.ir ** Payame Noor University mytraabbas@yahoo.com ** Payame Noor University jpaykani@yahoo.com Reception date: 99/8/25 Acceptance date: 99/11/15 to prove it rationally. Empirical explanations such as search for meaning by all human beings and the falsification of meaning and the reduction of meaning to purpose indicate that the search for meaning is the most fundamental driving force in life and the reason for man’s religious sense. James looks more at the sense of meaning than the meaning itself. James' view of religious experience and meaning is influenced by pragmatic thinking about utility.
Sayedeh Narjes Emranian; Amir Abbas Alizamani
Volume 17, Issue 1 , January 0, , Pages 107-134
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The aim of this study is to examine the meaning of life at the view point of Aristotle and the role of pleasure in reach to it with a descriptive- analysis method. Aristotle makes deep connection between pleasure and meaning of life. The fulfilled life is necessary and sufficient conditions for a meaningful ...
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The aim of this study is to examine the meaning of life at the view point of Aristotle and the role of pleasure in reach to it with a descriptive- analysis method. Aristotle makes deep connection between pleasure and meaning of life. The fulfilled life is necessary and sufficient conditions for a meaningful life. Meaning that pleasure accompanies and supplement it. He believes that, reaching fulfilled life introduces as goal and summom bonum and, states the relationship between pleasure and the meaning of life. He introduces Virtue as the way to reach fulfilled life. Virtues have two categories: intellectual and moral. The intellectual are premier than moral because they are humans special functionality and as the same way the pleasures of their are purer, so we should search the meaning of life primarily. He accepts pleasure as the necessary and insufficient condition for fulfilled life. So we don’t live for reaching pleasure, but we live for reaching ultimate fulfilled life, that in its shadow we could have the best pleasure. Some of his research in psychology, in deals with the immaterial and immortal intellect position according to this view, he believes that pleasure and meaning relationship still stable after death
