The past decade has witnessed a renewed interest in the works of twentieth-century Objectivist philosopher Ayn Rand. Political events ranging from rise Tea Party to 2016 election Donald J. Trump have only helped spur this resurgence, further evident film adaptations and reissues her popular literary novels. pundits abound have, turn, deemed return Rand as victory for libertarian thought Republi...

objectives: the purpose of this study was to investigate the relation of personality traits with depression in active and non – active elderly women in tehran city. methods & materials: the present research is descriptive–correlation. for this purpose, 188 elderly women (94 active and 94 non - active elders) in the age range of 63-82 in tehran city availably selected as statistical sample. meas...

The paper compares Pierre Bourdieu?s sociological approach with the one developed by Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann. aim of is to identify complementarities incongruences these approaches. main similarity consists in intention ?dialectically? overcome/bridge gap between ?objectivism? ?subjectivism? social theory. Another parallel includes a negative attitude towards relativistic tendencies po...

during three last decades some modem ethical philosophers, called ,communitarians, reviving aristotelian virtualistic ethics, have criticized intensively ethical and political views of utilitarian and new kantian liberalism. this ,doctrine emphasizing on political ethical , and psychological importance of correlations to societies believes that ethical arguments and judgments must derive from c...

In this paper we present the structure of “customer disvalue” phenomenon as the complementary concept for customer value. Authors, who are proponents of humanized marketing, rely on the lived-experience of customers as the primary source of data in order to grasp a first-hand understanding of the phenomenon that has been profoundly shadowed by objectivism of economics. The research is based on ...

objective(s): fasting during the month of ramadan is a religious obligation and belief for healthy adult muslims. the aim of the present study was to determine the effects of ramadan fasting and physical activity on ‘blood hematological-biochemical parameters’.   materials and methods: in this study, twenty-six healthy males in two experimental groups were compared in two different instances be...

Philosophy of Mind Philosophy of mind is the branch of metaphysics that studies the basic nature and capacities of the mind. The primary issue of philosophy of mind is the “mind-body problem,” described in Anthony Flew's A Dictionary of Philosophy as the “problem of how the mind is related to the body, and of what properties, functions, and occurrences should be regarded as, respectively, menta...

an efficient procedure is presented for the evaluation of solid oxide fuel cell (sofc) anode microstructure triple phase boundary length (tpbl). triple phase boundary- the one that is common between three phases of the microstructure- has a great influence on the overall efficiency of sofc because all electrochemical reactions of anode take place in its vicinity. therefore, evaluation of tpbl f...