Commentary: Beauty Requires Thought

Beauty Requires Thought

The experience of beauty is a pleasure, but common sense and philosophy suggest that feeling beauty differs from sensuous pleasures such as eating or sex. Immanuel Kant [1, 2] claimed that experiencing beauty requires thought but that sensuous pleasure can be enjoyed without thought and cannot be beautiful. These venerable hypotheses persist in models of aesthetic processing [3-7] but have neve...

Commentary: Neural substrates of embodied natural beauty and social endowed beauty: An fMRI study

The Ghost Is the Machine: How Can We Visibilize the Unseen Norms and Power of Global Health?; Comment on “Navigating Between Stealth Advocacy and Unconscious Dogmatism: The Challenge of Researching the Norms, Politics and Power of Global Health”

In his recent commentary, Gorik Ooms argues that “denying that researchers, like all humans, have personal opinions … drives researchers’ personal opinion underground, turning global health science into unconscious dogmatism or stealth advocacy, avoiding the crucial debate about the politics and underlying normative premises of global health.” These ‘unconscious’ dimensions of global health are...

Investigating the Commentators’ Thought Process on Commentary of the Verse “Yet ye will not, unless Allah willeth”

The verse “Yet ye will not, unless Allah willeth” has been discussed and investigated in different interpretative and theological periods. For some commentators and theologians this verse points to “fatalism” and for some others it entails “human free will under the auspices of the Devine Will”. Semantic analysis of the verse with an emphasis on the commentaries reveals that the commentators’ i...

Ghazzali, Tasarsi and Tantaw`s schools of scientific commentary of Quran historically reconsidered

The paper has reviewed a historical line of Quran scientific commentary as attended by commentators and researchers in the field of Quranic studies. Describing the manner in which different forms of thought on scientific miracles happened, authors have tried to study the methods used by commentators in the field to prepare the ground for a better understanding of Quranic teachings. To do so, hi...