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Kayvan Ansari; malek Hosseini; Shahla Eslami
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Mental obsession‒mostly considered as an illness or as a neurosis‒ consists of repeated, compulsive, unstoppable thoughts causing severe anxiety, and often leads to obsessive actions like washing hands or body, checking, counting, doing some ritual, and so on. In psychology, these thoughts are supposed ...
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Mental obsession‒mostly considered as an illness or as a neurosis‒ consists of repeated, compulsive, unstoppable thoughts causing severe anxiety, and often leads to obsessive actions like washing hands or body, checking, counting, doing some ritual, and so on. In psychology, these thoughts are supposed to be absurd and completely irrational; so in cognitive therapy sessions, psychologists try to reveal their irrationality for patients. In a similar way, psychiatrists tend to block these thoughts’ way to the patient’s mind, by prescribing different drugs. Free from psychiatrical or psychological approaches, this article, taking a philosophical one, conducts an analysis of mental obsession, based on which, obsessive thinking makes one’s living abnormally interrupted and discontinuous, which means it is useless and inefficient; at the same time, it entails truth and perceives real details of things which can not be grasped by everyday consciousness. Therefore, obsessive thoughts are not unrealistic, though they are unpragmatic.
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maryam khoshnevisan; Seyed Sadruddin Taheri; Babak Abbasi
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In this article, after the precise statement of the topic and purpose of occurrence and progress, Ibn Sina's, Fakhr Razi's, and Sadr al-Mutalahin Shirazi's views on the occurrence or time step of the natural world have been presented and critically analyzed. According to the historical order, Ibn Sina's ...
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In this article, after the precise statement of the topic and purpose of occurrence and progress, Ibn Sina's, Fakhr Razi's, and Sadr al-Mutalahin Shirazi's views on the occurrence or time step of the natural world have been presented and critically analyzed. According to the historical order, Ibn Sina's opinion based on the antiquity of nature, and a reason for it, based on the natural-philosophical rule, "every event is preceded by matter and duration" is established. Then, the criticisms of Ghazali and Fakhr Razi, which are similar to each other, and Khwaja Tusi's response to Fakhr Razi's criticism are presented, and, in the continuation, the opinion of Mullasadra, which agrees with Ibn Sina, is narrated. In the following, a reference was made to Mulla Sadra's special opinion about the temporal occurrence of nature based on intrinsic movement, and it was pointed out that this opinion can be summed up with any occurrence or step of nature. Then, two side problems related to the discussion: the infinite sequence of equipment and the specific problem of entities, have been raised and resolved. The summary and conclusion of the article are also given at the end and, in the conclusion, the theologian's opinion regarding the temporal occurrence of nature is ambiguous and inefficient, and the opinion of philosophers is preferred over nature's step.
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Roohollah Fadaei; Mohammad Saeedimehr
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Galen is one of the most prominent thinkers and scientists in antiquity, who paid special attention to the methodology of natural sciences. On the other hand, the transition of Galenic tradition to the Islamic world had a wide impact on different areas of thought, one of which was methodology. Accordingly, ...
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Galen is one of the most prominent thinkers and scientists in antiquity, who paid special attention to the methodology of natural sciences. On the other hand, the transition of Galenic tradition to the Islamic world had a wide impact on different areas of thought, one of which was methodology. Accordingly, studying Galen's scientific methodology plays a significant role in a true understanding of the scientific tradition in the Islamic medieval ages. This article, using the method of text-oriented analytic interpretation, expounds on the status of reason as one of the two main elements of Galen's methodology. In his view, the reason is the main part of the human soul which provides the scientific method both formally and materially. Its formal functions, pertaining to the logical scope, are as follows: demonstration, division and synthesis, definition, similarity and dissimilarity, analysis and synthesis, and indication. On the other hand, in a material sense, the mind provides the necessary prerequisites for the formation of proof and implication by understanding rational axioms.
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Farang Qobadi; Hossein Houshangi
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The main concern in the discussion of philosophical rationalities is epistemology. Secondary rationalities have an origin in the mind, the question of whether or not these concepts apply outside the mind is important. By what mechanism or process does the mind achieve them? How and in what form is the ...
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The main concern in the discussion of philosophical rationalities is epistemology. Secondary rationalities have an origin in the mind, the question of whether or not these concepts apply outside the mind is important. By what mechanism or process does the mind achieve them? How and in what form is the realization of the rationalities of the second? Allameh Tabatabai knows how to obtain philosophical concepts in two ways: present knowledge and analysis of verdicts in propositions. The relationship between these two methods is not without ambiguity and Allameh has raised both in parallel. He prefers the second way, in the way of realism, he believes that the philosophical rationals of the second are the discoverers of the real world through the relational beings who are in the mind and the exact same. Secondary philosophical intellects have a hierarchy in the way of abstraction and realism that are completely different from each other. In this article, we will examine Allameh Tabatabai point of view with an analytical method.
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Mohammad Karimi; Jabbar Amini; Jamshid Jalali Sheyjani
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Among the schools of ancient Greece, Aristotelian thought is the most systematic philosophical school and one of its important features is the special attention to the field of practice. But at the same time, in the Orient, some Indian schools were active with the benefit of various epistemological sources, ...
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Among the schools of ancient Greece, Aristotelian thought is the most systematic philosophical school and one of its important features is the special attention to the field of practice. But at the same time, in the Orient, some Indian schools were active with the benefit of various epistemological sources, including the Vedas and the Upanishads. Among these, the Sankehiyeh school seems to be more systematic than other Hindu schools in that it lays down specific metaphysical foundations, especially in the case of Purusha (the intangible soul in pure consciousness) and Prakriti (the primordial matter of the universe). Since practical wisdom in each of these two systems of thought is based on parts of their metaphysical views, the present study takes a historical approach to philosophy and to the background and analysis of philosophical terms widely used by Aristotle and Sankehiyeh. He tries to compare their psychological principles based on the relationship between theoretical wisdom and practical wisdom. The important finding of the research is that the different perceptions of these two schools of the characteristics of the human soul and its relationship with the body are the main reason for distinguishing their goals from the discussion of practical wisdom. Aristotle's intellectual backgrounds are much more complex than those of Capilla; Aristotle's practical wisdom includes the family and society, but the teachings of Sankehiyeh are only concerned with the individual conduct of human beings; "Moderation" is the key concept for understanding Aristotle's practical wisdom but in the Sankhya system.
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Mahdi Ganjvar
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The purpose of this article is to analyze Fakhr-al-din Razi's theological method and the effect of theological teachings on his thought and logic of understanding religion; because among the Ash'arite theologians, the role of Imam Fakhr Razi in terms of methodology in the process of philosophizing theology ...
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The purpose of this article is to analyze Fakhr-al-din Razi's theological method and the effect of theological teachings on his thought and logic of understanding religion; because among the Ash'arite theologians, the role of Imam Fakhr Razi in terms of methodology in the process of philosophizing theology is prominent and important and has received less attention from researchers. However, among the many issues about this knowledge, reviewing and refining the method of theology and raising methodological discussions about this science is one of the necessary preconditions and rudiments for understanding a coherent theological system. Inferring and analyzing the components of Fakhr's philosophical theology approach, such as: using logic and philosophical tools in explaining doctrinal issues; using the argumentative method in proving religious claims; avoidance of imitation and the dominance of rationality over obedience; and non-reliance on narrative evidence is the most important findings of this study. The method used in this research is the descriptive-analytical method of an inferential type.
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Pouria Golshenas; Yousef Nozohour
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In this paper, we attempt to answer this fundamental question that whether is any criterion of truth in Kant’s transcendental philosophy or not? Through analysis of “transcendental deduction”, and referring to Dieter Henrich's interpretation of the background of that term, and Robert ...
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In this paper, we attempt to answer this fundamental question that whether is any criterion of truth in Kant’s transcendental philosophy or not? Through analysis of “transcendental deduction”, and referring to Dieter Henrich's interpretation of the background of that term, and Robert Paul Wolff’s formation of that, we try to illustrate the significance of this part of the first critique for establishing a well-formed and compatible theory of truth in Kant’s philosophy. We claim since Kant believes that knowledge contains judgment and predication, in a word, a process of "synthesis", his theory of truth is a kind of “coherence theory of truth”, although Kant himself, in a famous passage of critique, says the definition of truth is correspondence and also we concede that his coherence theory is a peculiar one. Eventually, in favor of Robert Hanna's reading of Kant’s theory of meaning, we conclude that this theory involves a kind of scepticism, which we call “epistemological scepticism”.
