Hossein Shaqaqi
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"Indeterminacy begins at home" is the most important result of Quine's arguments in defense of "translation indeterminacy". This conclusion, which is also supported by Davidson, and hence we will call it the Quinnie-Davidson thesis, indicates a lack of definition of meaning in the mother tongue. Hans ...
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"Indeterminacy begins at home" is the most important result of Quine's arguments in defense of "translation indeterminacy". This conclusion, which is also supported by Davidson, and hence we will call it the Quinnie-Davidson thesis, indicates a lack of definition of meaning in the mother tongue. Hans Gluck, who likens this thesis to the "inevitability of translation" thesis in Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics, criticizes Quine-Davidson's thesis and does not consider it defensible. Here, first, by reviewing Quinnie-Davidson's thesis as well as Gadamer, I will confirm Glock's alleged similarity, and secondly, in refuting Glock's criticisms, I will try to defend the Quine-Davidson thesis by reviewing the similarity and balance between the position of Quinn's root translator from one hand, and Quine's account of the situation of the child on the verge of learning the mother tongue, on the other hand.
zahra zavarian; bijan abdolkarimi
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Language has an important place in philosophical hermeneutics. The experience of human life is an area of being which is identifiable only through language. Language is a mediator through which understanding takes place. All understanding is interpretation, and all interpretation forms within the frame ...
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Language has an important place in philosophical hermeneutics. The experience of human life is an area of being which is identifiable only through language. Language is a mediator through which understanding takes place. All understanding is interpretation, and all interpretation forms within the frame of language. According to Gadamer, truth is disclosed to us on the event of understanding, and this disclosure relies more than anything else on a state of openness and dialogue. The relationship of language and being is reflectional. Language essentially has a reflective nature and makes possible for being to be disclosed through speech and conversation.
In Gadamer’s view, poetry and thought share a common ground. Poetry is an area within which thinking takes poetical form. The poet becomes able to hear the calling of existence through poetical empathy and liberation, and he thereby approaches the nature of existence.
A common element between the poet and the thinker, in addition to their empathy with existence, is their involvement in language. They disclose themselves in language, as though being only discloses itself through poetical thinking and thoughtful poetry.
Now the question is: How does the disclosure happen? How can the interpreter approach understanding of poetry? Is this understanding possible through method, or does Gadamer suggest another path to interpretation? The present paper aims to explore Gadamer’s views on the relationship of understanding and truth, that of language and existence, and of poetry and its interpretation.
eynollah khademi; alireza arabi
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Bihar al-Anwar is the most important and comprehensive hadith collection compiled by the Shia scholar Allameh Majlesi, who represents the philosophical thought of transcendental hikmah or al-hikmah al-muta'aliyah at modern time. The annotations Allameh Tabataba'i made to this book are mainly criticisms ...
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Bihar al-Anwar is the most important and comprehensive hadith collection compiled by the Shia scholar Allameh Majlesi, who represents the philosophical thought of transcendental hikmah or al-hikmah al-muta'aliyah at modern time. The annotations Allameh Tabataba'i made to this book are mainly criticisms of Allameh Majlesi's views and statements. A more comprehensive study of these annotations, thus, facilitates not only the revival of the annotation-writing and critical-thinking traditions but also the recognition of the differences and similarities of approaches and doctrines between these two great religious scholars. This research is an attempt to clarify, explain, analyze, criticize and study two of most controversial annotations Allameh Tabataba'i made to Bihar al-Anwar. It is worth emphasizing that the criticism of Allameh Majlesi's views made the present researchers devote a large part of the research to studying and clarifying them. Accordingly, they sought to study his definitions of reason according to the terms and idioms of three main schools of philosophy and recognize the reasons for his cynicism about the philosophers and their views. In addition, his approach to the study of religion and religious texts and his concerns about the metaphysical reasons are examined, and Allameh Tabataba'i's criticisms, claims and reasons are studied to demonstrate their veracity
ali karbasi zadeh
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From the ancient time, Philosophy has been defined by philosophers in many different scopes. Nietzsche, who acknowledged himself as a "Philosopher", has offered a definition of philosophy too; however, his perception of philosophy is thoroughly different from the others, because he contemplated philosophy ...
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From the ancient time, Philosophy has been defined by philosophers in many different scopes. Nietzsche, who acknowledged himself as a "Philosopher", has offered a definition of philosophy too; however, his perception of philosophy is thoroughly different from the others, because he contemplated philosophy from a new perspective for the first time. Nietzsche criticized the fundamental presuppositions of metaphysical systems, and believed that the essence of philosophy is nihilistic in itself, and so its time has been come to an end. He declared that philosophy is an untimely and extraordinary expression, and claimed that his own works deserve to be called "philosophy"; hence, he named himself not a poet, scientist, or psychologist, but a "philosopher". Nietzsche divided the philosophers into two groups: the masters who create values, and the slaves who love and seek for knowledge and truth. He confessed that he belongs to the first group, and distinguished himself such as "the future philosopher" and his philosophy a heritage to the futurities.
hassan jafari
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Philosophy of religion is an intellectual and logical interpretation of religious experience and language. It merges in philosophy so far as its philosophical thinking about religion is concerned. Philosophical thought is always rational and very deeply intellectual. It is a rational analysis of religious ...
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Philosophy of religion is an intellectual and logical interpretation of religious experience and language. It merges in philosophy so far as its philosophical thinking about religion is concerned. Philosophical thought is always rational and very deeply intellectual. It is a rational analysis of religious experience and the problem of the language of religion. In the philosophy of religion as it has developed in the Western philosophy and Christian theology, two main questions may be identified as representing problems associated with the religious use of language. How we ought to understand the terms which we use to predicate certain things of God? Do these terms bear the same sense when used of God and of creatures? Another problem is that God is so fundamentally and so enormously different from human beings and other creatures that it seems impossible for terms to be true of God and of creatures in just the same sense. In recent years a number of analyses of theological discourse have been suggested. Thus, this paper analyses a reduction the problem of the language of religion by discussing symbolic interpretation which is alternatively a development of symbolism in religious texts and practices. Therefore, the first of this paper includes the review of the problem of the language of religion and philosophers’ and theologians’ reflections on it. Secondly, it surveys the correlation between symbolism and interpretation and their function in analyzing.
