Viewpoints: Dialogue in the Modern West

the tragedy of modern man in arthur millers world

what miller wants is a theatre of heightened consciousness. he speaks of two passions in a man, the passion to "feel" and the passion "know". he belives that we can have more of the latter. he says: drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us know more and not merely to spend our feelings. the writing of the crucible shows us that he is trying to give more heightene...

the relation between human and truth in modern philosophers’ viewpoints

modern age due to its epistemological virtue has a special important, since it defined a new relation between human and truth, in which some modern philosophers, like descartes, kant and nietzsche have more roles. in this thought, human could take place as the center and criterion of understanding and interpretation of truth. in fact, human’s subjectivism has been of more important role in unde...

A Modern View of the West

There are numerous views on how the West should be defined. In addition, there are just as many views on how one should define civilization. Just what is it that we refer to when we use the phrase ‘Western Civilization’? This is much more than an exercise in semantics. It is an important question especially if we accept the current war against terrorism as a manifestation of a clash of civiliza...

Viewpoints: Art and Architecture as Locus for Dialogue: Inter-Religious Dialogue Through Art

Avicenna’s Viewpoints on Fever and It’s Comparison to Modern Medicine

In his book “Canon in Medicine (Al-Ghanoon)”, Avicenna has specified a chapter containing two sections pertaining to fever. After defining fever and explaining it’s different stages , he divides it into three types: hectic fever, infection-induced fever and daily fever. After accurate attention to the patient’s history and key-points in examination, he focuses on fever signs and its treatment r...