We conducted 4 experiments to examine how people incorporate visual information about strangers’ religious identities—religious badges—into their decisions about how much to trust them. Experiment 1 revealed that Christian and non-Christian participants were more trusting (as measured by self-report) of targets who wore a religious badge associated with Christianity (Ash Wednesday ashes) than t...

tertullian's point of view on the relationship of faith and rationality can be examined from two perspectives. by citing to some of sentences that he has said in opposition to philosophy, he is known the pioneer of radical fideism. in those famous quotes, he takes philosophy to be the source and origin of heretic, and the philosopher's teachings as identical with teachings of devils a...

This paper addresses the claim that social orders of Western civilization operate on basis law’s presumed sovereignty over life. I demonstrate how respective works Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben and French phenomenologist Michel Henry are joined in their concern this issue, shared belief life can be made sovereign law through a communal based upon habit. At same time, argue conceptions fla...

Abstract Paul’s speech to the Areopagus in Acts 17 places apostle philosophical dialogue with Stoics and Epicureans. This article identifies important points of contact between Middle Platonic exegesis a famous phrase from Timaeus 28c. There, philosopher declares that maker father world is hard find, even more difficult talk about. Many later interpreters Plato commented on dictum. Platonists s...

idiopathic lobular panniculitis, sometimes called relapsing febrile nodular panniculitis or weber christian disease first desribed in 1892 by pfeifer, is the term used to describe an group of disease that present as subcutaneous inflammatory nodules and histologically display an inflammatory focus primarily within the fat lobules. weber-christian disease is the term applied to idiopatic cases o...

Antoine-Louis-Adolphe Dupuch (1800-1856) served as the first bishop of Algiers in newly conquered French colony. His contemporary François Bourgade (1806-1866), who a priest both and Tunis, was missionary philosopher. Both men were convinced that physical evidence late antique Christian past might lay powerful historical foundation for religiosity North Africa. Arriving 1830s, labored under si...

In this contribution, I discuss some less well-known premodern and early modern antecedents of Spinoza’s concepts claims in the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus. On one hand, will argue, notion prophecy owes more to Moses Maimonides than any Christian author; through Maimonides, Spinoza may be linked discussion The Virtuous City by tenth-century Islamic philosopher al-Farabî. concern with as a po...

plato in theory of philosopher-king believes that all of the members of ideal city-state, whether ruler or citizens, will attain happiness if the philosopher is the ruler. but there are paradoxes in the theory and the bases of the happiness are unstable too. in other words, plato in his theory presents hierarchical dualities (intelligible/visible world, episteme/ doxa,true/ untrue or shadow, …)...

Considering the Theaetetus and Statesman together – as the two dialogues explicitly said to flank the Sophist -both raises and suggests answers to questions about the relationship between philosopher and statesman, and the relationship between Socrates and the Eleatic Stranger. It is argued that aspects of the Theaetetus ‘Digression’ on the nature of philosophers serve to criticise the question...