Alireza Esmaeilzadeh Barzi
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This paper is going to draw a comparison between pagan and Christian apologies for holy images. To this end, after giving a general history of the issue, the most important criticisms made of the images and veneration of them will be briefly considered. The next step is a detailed comparison between ...
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This paper is going to draw a comparison between pagan and Christian apologies for holy images. To this end, after giving a general history of the issue, the most important criticisms made of the images and veneration of them will be briefly considered. The next step is a detailed comparison between the two groups of apologies. These apologies are mostly concentrated on demonstrating the necessity of images, their functions, and their compatibility with the spiritual core of religion. The comparison will show that the Christian apologies are analogical in their basic aspects to the pagan apologies. In other words, the apologies that some Christian theologians made for images in response to the other Christians and Jews, was in a way the reproduction of apologies that pagan philosophers made in response to early Christians. A subsidiary result of this analogy is the transformation and restriction of the meaning of idolatry. Idolatry's definition in this transition becomes more and more restricted to the object of worship and no longer heeds to the rituals and appearances.
gholamreza zakyani
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The philosophy of logic is a posterior science, which examines the philosophical principles of logic as well as the matters derived from the logical debates. Aristotle's philosophy of logic has not been collected yet, but we need to do it due to comparing the ancient logic with the modern interpretations. ...
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The philosophy of logic is a posterior science, which examines the philosophical principles of logic as well as the matters derived from the logical debates. Aristotle's philosophy of logic has not been collected yet, but we need to do it due to comparing the ancient logic with the modern interpretations. For gathering these philosophical principles we have to refer to Aristotle's own works directly. Perhaps the most important transition which was occurred in Aristotelian logic was formed by the Muslim scientists like as Ibn-Sina and his remarkable work al-Isharat wa-'l-tanbihat (Remarks and Admonitions). The writer of this paper believes that the so-called transformation not only happened in the formal division of logic by the Muslim philosophers, but they had an essential and profound viewpoint to logic too. We can find the origin of these progressions in the work of the Neoplatonist Porphyry, known as the Isagoge (Introduction), which was appended to the beginning of the Organon series as an introduction to the study of the Categories; however it finally removed categories and made the syllogisms formal. Demonstrating such a theory requires knowing Aristotle's logic exactly. The present paper deals with the Prior Analytics, which contains the theory of syllogism as well.
