Maryam Samadieh; Majid Mollayousefi
Volume 17, Issue 4 , January 0, Pages 1-24
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Aristotle is the first philosopher who specifically focuses on phronesis or practical wisdom in detail. He has dealt with it in three areas of essence, elements of phronetic act, and phronesis functions. For Aristotle, phronesis was a moral and intellectual virtue and a prerequisite for the prosperity ...
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Aristotle is the first philosopher who specifically focuses on phronesis or practical wisdom in detail. He has dealt with it in three areas of essence, elements of phronetic act, and phronesis functions. For Aristotle, phronesis was a moral and intellectual virtue and a prerequisite for the prosperity of every individual and community. In his elaboration of the ontological position of phronesis, Aristotle differentiates it from other intellectual virtues such as episteme, techne, intuitive intellect, and Sophia. He argues that these last three items have to do with theory, while phronesis is about praxis and practice. He also differentiates between phronesis and Techne. Although techne, like phronesis, is about practice, practice in techne is of poiesis and construction nature. Phronesis, on the other hand, is a comprehensive and applied type of knowledge that not only dictates the daily activities, but also utilizes knowledge as a guide and a calculator. Moreover, what is referred to as an action in phronesis encompasses a variety of elements like perceiving the goal, desire, rational deliberation and prohairesis or rational choice. Aristotle also believes that phronesis gives a valuable framework for leading man’s life.
amir rastin; seyyed mortaza hosseini shahrudi
Volume 17, Issue 4 , January 0, Pages 25-42
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Principality of existence is the most important innovation of mullasadra and the most essential philosophical principle of his transcendental philosophy. This principle has many branches, each of them being a potential innovation. In the meantime, Allameh Tabatabai in "Nehayhat-o-alhekmah" correctly ...
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Principality of existence is the most important innovation of mullasadra and the most essential philosophical principle of his transcendental philosophy. This principle has many branches, each of them being a potential innovation. In the meantime, Allameh Tabatabai in "Nehayhat-o-alhekmah" correctly and explicitly discusses about these results precisely after explaining and proving the principality of existence. The study of these derivatives shows that not all of them have the same subject as the principle itself, a problem that can be effective in the innovation of some of them. The possibility of being directly derived from the principle, and not from other principles or by help of other proofs, is another factor for being innovative.
Hasan Ghanbari
Volume 17, Issue 4 , January 0, Pages 43-54
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In this article, at first, we conceder the Positivistic criterion about meaning and the Wittgenstein’s theory of meaning, namely Picture theory of meaning. Then refer to Swinburne’s criticism to this criterion. And then we deal with Coherence that for Swinburne is criterion to meaning. He believe ...
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In this article, at first, we conceder the Positivistic criterion about meaning and the Wittgenstein’s theory of meaning, namely Picture theory of meaning. Then refer to Swinburne’s criticism to this criterion. And then we deal with Coherence that for Swinburne is criterion to meaning. He believe that a meaningful sentence must make a claim about how things are. In this respect, He rejects positivistic view about religious language that theological propositions are not claims about reality. There we say that according to Swinburne the logical Coherence is really criterion to meaningfulness. According to Swinburne theological propositions are meaningful if and only they have logical coherence. Therefore, There is a God is coherent because in it there is not logical contradiction. In fact ,in Swinburne view, according to orthodoxy of believers God is a spirit without body and having a body is not necessary for being a person. In continuation we say that how this criterion work in theism. In the end, we criticize Swinburne’s view both about His criticism on positivism and about being a person.
reza ghasemian
Volume 17, Issue 4 , January 0, Pages 55-66
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God’s knowledge is an issue which has long been the subject of discussion among philosophers. Among these philosophers, Suhrawardi believes that God is the cause of material beings. So, like any other causal agent, he knows his creatures. Adopting an analytical method and with the aim of ...
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God’s knowledge is an issue which has long been the subject of discussion among philosophers. Among these philosophers, Suhrawardi believes that God is the cause of material beings. So, like any other causal agent, he knows his creatures. Adopting an analytical method and with the aim of accounting for God’s knowledge over his creatures from Suhrawardi’s point of view, the present paper first deals with the knowledge of non-existent possible material beings and explains that, due to their existence in the celestial sphere, they are true. This is followed by an account of knowledge over existent material beings; possibilities whose presential material existence makes them the subject of God’s knowledge. As God is the illuminator of all lights and is considered the essence of light, he makes them visible and perceivable through illumination.
Mohammad Hossein Madani; mohammad ali mahdavi rad; Rohollah Shahidi
Volume 17, Issue 4 , January 0, Pages 67-92
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The struggle against social corruption and reforming various fields of social life has a special place in the Imams’ guiding conduct. Their entering to social rectification and in other words, their duty to rectify the society in various aspects of social to strengthen human perfection is based on ...
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The struggle against social corruption and reforming various fields of social life has a special place in the Imams’ guiding conduct. Their entering to social rectification and in other words, their duty to rectify the society in various aspects of social to strengthen human perfection is based on foundations of revealed knowledge. These foundations are the base of using Imams’ rectification strategies in various fields of social life. A series of the foundations have theological aspects which this research analyses them. The theological foundations of social rectification consists of: monotheism, believing on hereafter, the spirits originality and improvement, essential goodness and evilness of actions, integrity and immortality of religion, the principle of prophethood and imamate. Shia’s Imamate doctrine that is based upon divine revelation, introduces the Infallible Imams as the scientific, moral and political authority of the human society and thereby makes them responsible to rectify various fields of the society.
mohhamad akhgar; ali farsinezhad
Volume 17, Issue 4 , January 0, Pages 93-114
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The meaning of life, as a significant issue, has been considered by Ostad Motahari and Allameh Jaafari. The analytic-descriptive study of these two Muslim thinkers’ views shows that, in spite of considerable similarities, there are essential differences between their approaches to this issue. The ...
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The meaning of life, as a significant issue, has been considered by Ostad Motahari and Allameh Jaafari. The analytic-descriptive study of these two Muslim thinkers’ views shows that, in spite of considerable similarities, there are essential differences between their approaches to this issue. The differences are classified under three categories: (1) The theological and transmitted approach of Ostad Motahari to this issue in comparison with the rational and philosophical approach of Allameh Jaafari; (2) Motahari’s non-independent and reductionist attitude to the issue of meaning of life versus Jafari’s independent and pivotal attitude toward it; (3) Motahari’s lack of attention to the issue of meaning of life and his approach to take it for granted versus the serious attention of Allameh Jaafari to this question and his efforts to derive the answer through analyzing the question. These fundamental differences represent two different ways through which the meaning of life is discussed in the realm of Islamic- Iranian thinking thought.
zeinab vatani; hamidreza mostofid
Volume 17, Issue 4 , January 0, Pages 115-149
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Atib-ol-Bayan is an interpretation in Shia in Persian written by Ayat-ol-Allah Seyed Abdolhossein Tayeb who passed away on June, 1991. Although according to the author, some of the interpretational news are not to be assured of and also, the accuracy of the prophet Mohammad traditions is not traceable, ...
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Atib-ol-Bayan is an interpretation in Shia in Persian written by Ayat-ol-Allah Seyed Abdolhossein Tayeb who passed away on June, 1991. Although according to the author, some of the interpretational news are not to be assured of and also, the accuracy of the prophet Mohammad traditions is not traceable, every now and then narrations related to Emam (peace be with them) is abundant and narrations related to some of them is mentioned and invalid ones are not to be said. In interpretation of the verse of Zaher-ol-Dalaleh, which includes appearances and provisions, he is satisfied with the appearance and takes advantage of ahl-al-bayt and the holy prophet's narrations for achieving the essence of the verses of the holy Quran. As he states at the beginning of his interpretational work, narrations from the Emam are a trustworthy resource for his interpretation and he refers to narrations which are compatible with the verse in stating the meaning of the words or intention of the verse. According to him, interpretational narrations which are apparently contractive with the verse are indicators of the concept of the verse; however, he believes that in most of the cases, interpretational narrations indicate indicators of the concept of the verse and refers to them for eliminating ambiguity. To sum up, Tayeb could not be considered as merely reliable interpreters. The way the interpreter deals with narrations and his specific methods toward interpretational narrations is the topic being debated in the current essay.
