Abstract This article traces one source of Agnès Varda's artistic inspiration to Jean “Yanco” Varda, the subject her 1967 short film Uncle Yanco (US/France). Varda was a peripatetic artist who lived on houseboat and part bohemian circle that included Henry Miller, Anaïs Nin, Alan Watts, other luminaries San Francisco counterculture. Both Vardas were gleaners artists. The author argues both saw ...

This article is a brief review of Ibn Sīnā’s practical philosophy. It begins with a discussion of the Platonic, Aristotelian, and Neo-Platonic influences on Ibn Sīnā’s practical philosophy, as well as the influence of Fārābī and of Islamic religious teachings. The creative synthesis invented by Ibn Sīnā requires a particular view of the relation between religion and philosophy in such a manner ...

I will argue for three points. The first is on the need to make Chinese philosophy a world philosophy. second point that, in order promote as we should not historicize Philosophy and history are two different disciplines. As important historical context is, overemphasizing it or even taking merely matter of intellectual makes difficult non-specialists study philosophy, therefore counter-product...

The sharply contrasting experiences of John G. Roberts, Jr. and William Howard Taft with the Article II, Section 2 appointments process illustrate that the long view of history is governed by perspective. William Howard Taft, the twenty-seventh President, also later became the tenth Chief Justice of the United States. Taft was nominated for the position of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court—a p...

This study wants to analyze the common points and of difference between Western Islamic philosophy. is qualitative research using exploratory-analytical method. finds that philosophy has contributed each other. The point Philosophy lies in transmitting truth. Meanwhile, we can see three aspects. First source knowledge. comes from reason five senses, while not only but also authority (al-Quran a...