essentia beyond the Trinity 2. i t is a differentiated unity, not because of different actions outwards, but because of inner relationships (relationes). Inner relationships mean that i t is Being in movement, that this Being is energy. Augustine tries to find analogies to show the nature of these intimate relationships. In this regard, the human soul and its experiences is most important to him :

one of the issues raised in the discussion knowledge of god, is the existence of different stage in this regard. despite the unity and simplicity of god and apparent similarity of knowers in existence, however, it is a question that why this plurality exist? mulla sadra, according to his philosophical principles like copulative existing of caused to cause, ontological approach to knowledge and ...

the problem of mental causation was one of the most important problems in philosophy of mind at least from the time of descartes. since cartesian philosophers found the causal interaction of the soul and the body problematic, they explained away the direct relation between the soul and the body in different ways. however, the problem was not resolved in contemporary philosophy of mind when the ...

This article stresses the main lines of Thomas Aquinas's philosophy on the nature of the body-soul union. Following Aristotle, Aquinas sees the soul as a 'principle of life' which is intimately bound to a body. Together they form a non-contingent composition. In addition, the distinctive feature of the human soul is rationality, which implies that a human needs a mind to be what it is. However,...

Introduction: Nearly one billion adult Muslims across the world refrain from eating, drinking, and smoking from dawn until dusk during the holy month of Ramadan. The duration of Islamic fasting varies depending on the coinciding season and geographical location. The present study aimed to review the health benefits of Islamic fasting. Methods: This review was c...

nature of the soul, immateriality and its survival, has always been one the most challenging issues in the philosophical and theological ideas that in this according to fakhr al-razi’s point of view paper has been discussed. fakhr razi in his numerous works speaks in a different way, and sometimes conflicting, about the soul, in a way that in some works is taken the negative position and some p...

in the fourth verse of the chapter tariq, human soul has been known to have a guard. commentators, however, have presented different views knowing human soul and its guard respectively as: 1- human spirit and divine angles, 2- all creatures and god, 3- animal power and human spirit. as one of the fundamental causes for disagreement lies in the philosophical tendencies of the commentators, this ...

Firing another salvo in the on-going monism-dualism debate, Joel B. Green in his new book Body, Soul, and Human Life, presents his ontological monism, a rebuttal against anthropological dualism in general and against the holistic dualism in Body, Soul, and Everlasting Life by John W. Cooper in particular. Green’s anthropological monism, which “coheres well with Nancey Murphy’s argument . . . an...